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I only managed to produce one paper in 6 months of research. How do I survive? (sh.itjust.works)

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I am in the field of applied math, and it took me 6 months to produce a paper. And now, I am out of ideas for new papers.

What should I do? How do I even continue? This is sooo difficult..

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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

More seriously, applied math is great, especially if you are good at probability and aren't too disgusted by AI. Most of AI as far as I can tell is a mix of quite old fashioned probability, linear algebra, and numerics. There's tons of money in it. Watch some fast.ai videos and a lot of marketing BS will be demystified.