shoguning

Advertising and media? Robots bid on the ads that billions see every day, and decide what videos billions of people watch.

I'm guessing low expertise programmers whose main contribution was googling stackoverflow will get less valuable, while high expertise programmers with real design skill will become even more valuable.

What you're saying is consistent with my hypothesis. Ie that casual public transmission on subways and in restaurants is low. Rather, it's "behind closed doors", at extended private gatherings, via domestic workers and so on. Those are the only such cases I have direct knowledge of (California USA). It could be that Japanese don't gather as much, or have chosen to skip it during pandemic.

I think there is a proper level of conviviality/cordiality and fun that you can bring to work without getting too personally invested. A lot of first-time employees may have trouble with this balance, but after a tough break or two you learn the ropes.

Is there any reason to use a 3rd party recruiter? The listings are all public, just submit a resume.

All my offers came from applying direct. Always got the runaround from recruiters.

Or they believe (possibly correctly) that you don't have as strong a negotiating position because there are fewer options for you based on location.

> The reason excess deaths are only 3x higher is because of our precautions.

It's a hard case to make. Sweden for example has had less excess death than harsher lockdown countries like Spain & UK.

Lockdowns have done little if anything in US states. New York and Florida have similar stats (worse in NY if anything).

California and SF are doomed, but the recent news of HPE and ORCL moving are not a big deal. IMO these are stationary phase companies trying to cut cost. They are not growing revenue, they are not really dynamic companies anymore. Who cares? The swashbuckling SV types never would have worked at these companies anyway. Stability-seeking workers in other states are a much better fit for these companies. Win-win-win.

> The bottom is still decently high even in Midwest cities

Yes, and I also see the push for remote work also affecting the demand side of the software labor market as well as the supply. There will be even more push for good collaboration/communication work process software. It's still a fast growing market.

Yeah, that is mentioned as "one of the downsides of renewables".

That is like saying, "one of the downsides of using a cooked noodle as a fork is that it doesn't hold its shape". It's disqualifying until that issue is sorted.

The value of solar right now is that it provides energy at the hottest, most energy use part of the day. But there is a tipping point where marginal solar is not really valuable for a grid anymore. California and Germany are at that point.

Hopefully we get cost-effective day-scale energy storage, it's not going to happen in the next few years unfortunately.

IMO, this is huge. One of the biggest applications of ML to science that I know of for sure. People used to manually crystallize proteins at great effort to solve for structures.

Of course, there is a caveat. The static, crystallized structure is only one aspect of a protein. The dynamic behavior dissolved in H2O, at different pH, different ionic strength, with different ligands/cofactors are all also important, and not (afaik) directly addressed by this research.

All I can say is, good luck.

I discourage everyone from doing a PhD, but it sounds like you've made your mind up.

Be very careful with your choice of advisor and department, and if it isn't working, be ready to walk away--sounds like you have a career to go back to.