I made this.

/thread

Fixed it

😦

Everyone's a critic nowadays.

toe gang

My photoshop skills are 🥔 out of 10.

But I hope to make it big in the postmodernist art world one day.

well that is a field where talent is not a requirement

In fact it's a hindrance

Agreed.

Talent implies a hierarchy of skills

We cant have that

Oh God, I could be a professor at this rate

or at least an assisted professor in social studies

All professors are assisted.

They wouldn't get anything done without TAs.

Brian Eno - Neroli

https://undeadmockingbird.github.io/MiniYT/index.html#S16pPTtR0As

`Oh God, I could be a professor at this rate
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i tried to get into mathematics academia word. it's uber competitive and i'm just not intelligent enough so i have given up for now.

Don't give up if you like it.

thanks

80% is sticking with it while everyone hates it.

You already have a huge edge over others if you like it.

#motivation

motivation mondayz

Often times the learning curve is very steep, too, so once you get it you have a huge edge over others.

if you're capable then yes 80% of the rest is sticking with it 😂

i'm generally capblae, i'm just not blindingly intelligent like some others i've met

It took me hours to understand the kernel trick and then it just clicked suddenly when I went for a walk.

ML algorithms?

Yes.

It was all a mystery to me when I started.

I thought I'd never learn it.

ah yes, i've read a bit about gaussian machine learning stuff

not much though

tough subject

It's good when it's tough. It's job security, which is probably also why people try to make it look hard.

But I want more people to get into it.

That's why I try to make it look easy.