BlissWaves

Do you guys sponsor visas?

US only?

Alterantively one can use Math.abs().

Most likely because internal value is associated with salary and worth. It's very difficult to change that when society determines your worth and skills by the salary that you get.

His partner is apparantly also highly ambitious and I don't think relationships work with one partner being all about watching the stars and another super driven. Add a Phd to that which is long years invested as well and it's pretty much that you have a choice but you really don't have a choice.

Why music degree instead of CS?

This just screams depression to me. You have dedicated so much of your life to CS and now dream about meditation and learning about things for fun.

It may be worthwhile also to think about why started your Phd in the first place. What did you find so fun back then. Just trace to the past and find your initial reason and try to chart a path from here to what problems you want to work on.

Best cure for that is "treat others as you would want yourself to be treated". In this case I would really appreciate it if someone told me that my idea wasn't novel at all, sucked or that I was charging exorbitant fees for some minor improvement of my productivity.

A lot of times in life, kindness doesn't look like kindness.

Show me one example which has worked with that formula and has generated significant amount of revenue?

This is pretty much solving a problem that doesn't exist at all.

Psychology is a pseudo-science. Studying psychology to understand humans is like studying ink to understand literature.

How is he so important in AI community considering he doesn't even have a degree?

But he didn't have an urgent medical need his kid had. Why let him get in as well?

Mhm, and what's the success rate of treating depression with a therapist?

What a pointless endeavour