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Hi, My name is Joshua Cook Otti. I am an unemployed PhD in theoretical computer science and the author for stemforest books. Please hire me. My website: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~jacook7/ Stem Forest Books website: stemforestbooks.com
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It took me a few days to get my wife excited for a new apartment in Seattle. And I finally got her ready to take it, only for someone else to lease it first. Now it'll be harder than ever to convince her on a new place.

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Musk reading this: Oh good, if this is satire, then this must not be how things are.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

So, I got the job offer from Amazon. It feels weird because by my own standards, I actually did pretty poorly in the coding questions (mostly because I didn't have time). But I spent all weekend practicing the personality questions. And that seemed to have made the difference.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I'm seeing some people comparing LLMs to NFTs. These are not NFTs, they have very clear applications beyond just not trusting the legal system. Of course, many companies are trying to use them where it is not appropriate, but they are very powerful and useful, just untrustworthy.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

So I finished my Amazon interviews, and after practicing, I got better at using my research experience to answer the interview questions. Unfortunately, this meant the behavioral questions ate into my coding time because everyone wanted to understand my research results.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

So, after practicing for my Amazon behavioral interview, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna fail. I have the Amazon Leadership principles, but "give an example of a tine you used a new technology to improve your work." I don't use technology in math research. I don't have examples for these scenarios.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

One of the worst questions I get at job interviews is "how will your PhD help our company?" It won't. I did theory and you are not interviewing me for theory.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I think the single thing that has hurt my career in computer science the most is getting a PhD in computer science.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Today 3 hrs of teaching on integrating experiments and simulations on our integrative structural biology course, & then later 1.5 hrs of lecturing and hands-on exercises on a PhD course on intrinsically disordered proteins

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Jesus christ, the GOP is really calling their massive bill the "Big, Beautiful Bill"? People are gonna look back at this presidency and it's naming scheme and ask, "WTF, was a toddler in charge of their PR?"

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

I think I made a mistake in an interview. The interviewer asked me what the most stressful time in my academic career was, and I said finding a job after graduating. And they just seemed confused. I think people don't realize how bad the job landscape is right now.

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