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Yet another discussion with my adviser that didn't turn into a fight. I am, in a word, amazed.

(And he was even being critical this time: he pointed out a general use-case for QBE which my machine-learning library supports but my SQL syntax doesn't. So now I get to dive back into the grammar and fix that, but it won't be hard -- and it's the right time to do it, since I haven't really gotten started implementing ranking yet. So, look for that update sometime around the end of this month/beginning of next.)

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Date: 2005-10-21 12:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yllafairy.livejournal.com
but that's still very different from working for, say, an architecture company, where the hours you put in directly translate into what you company can bill your client. so in a "real job" your hours can be specifically counted in monetary units, and even if you're part of the overhead, you're still helping the company work well and make money. whereas in an academia job, even if you get private capital, you usually count things in terms of results (like solving equations or getting a piece of code to work). your work does not "make money"... so you're not as likely to get rich writing string theory as you are coding microsoft excel.

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