Hi HN! I went through quite a ride last academic year when I went from knowing nothing about modern ML to getting an offer for a research internship. Someone emailed me today asking how I did it, I went on to write a long email detailing the steps I went through. I was quite satisfied with the end result and decided to share it online! Feedback appreciated and hope you can learn something new out of this post.

Thanks for the feedback! Regarding your points: 1) I understand. I am trying to have some sort of ways to notify people when I post new stuff and somehow putting the newsletter signup in the post itself works best (as opposed to putting it at the end or somewhere else). It's hard to avoid breaking the flow of reading while making sure people see it. 2) I really could not resist praising how good the stoic writing are compared to all the self help fluff we see today. I think it is worth going against my thesis for that one.

Wrote this opinion piece about why I think reading the same books as everybody else is a huge mistake made by a lot of ambitious people. Feel free to nitpick about the article here in the comments!

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