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The 100-hour work week of an self-taught machine learning researcher, how he got into Google Brain, why he started Omni - Jeremy Nixon - The Data Scientist Show #060
The Data Scientist Show
When You're Tired and Demotivated, What Do You Do?
When I'm tired and demotivated, I work on side projects because they often do make me better at programming. So for example, last 100 hour work week, we implemented a tool to send like cute images of dogs to your friends. And this was a side project, but it basically was something new and interesting, and it was not directly related to my core work. Yeah. In part, the purpose of this was to understand what it was like. It's been slightly harder for me to use any novelty value to drive my motivation during most times. And my motivation becomes about other things, or my motivation is slippery air. But in my mind, that's okay. Right,
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