That's not necessarily a deterrent :) it really depends where, also would you consider staying in the states for it? Because I know of some reputable places (west coast mostly) where pretty much if you are to the right person's liking and fit their requirements, your admission won't see objections- there's plenty of time to make a decision about it, because the applications (iirc) take place a bit before* the end of the year. Let me know if you need more details!
I really should have mentioned that I’m not American, I just want to work there in the future.
Point taken about selection though! I’m thinking I could network with academics while working on implementing papers, etc.
Do you think the selection situation is different for foreigners? Do you know if the same is true about European schools? The 3-year average for PhDs in Europe really looks more attractive to me.
Also would really appreciate if you could tell me more about how these programs select people who aren’t 4.0 students from a top school with famous recommendations. Is practice important, should you know a lot about current SOtA, do you need to show math proficiency?
Good thinking, and regarding Euro institutions there's lot of regional differences- for instance, brits have steps to take which are pretty set in stone with the Centres for Doctoral Training; basically it's the opposite of the process from the prior comment, it's the system that allocates someone for you. Denmark is free if you're native or from EU- Finland however is free for all (according to peers and the net) and would gauge they're both tad more flexible than UK in terms of requirements. Anyway, there's plenty options!
Regarding the selection process, although they're a clear benefit perfect grades aren't a must and it's alright to be from outside of a top ranking school- but you'll have to bring something to the table to make up for it. Whether that is a solid paper, practical achievements along recommendations or whatever again depends on the place. I think there's just so many ways to show something that can be impressive without knowledge about the latest thing or dropping walls of equations for the sake of it haha.
Best of luck!
I know someone who is on the second platform, they're labeled B2B professionals and can be filtered to your liking- the rate is between 70 and 160 $/hr which does fall within the initially mentioned budget it seems :)
Sorry to hear, you did well though given no one has their guard up 24/7 and that's what they rely on in that case! There's a few solid guides on how to minimize the possibility of lateral movement, privilege escalation, forgery and so on without having to think through the inner workings of every attack vector under the sun (would say the most thorough is https://attack.mitre.org/versions/v14/mitigations). Could also provide some help beyond that this weekend (been a slow week) at no cost, e-mail's in the profile :) used to have all the bells and whistles a white hat could have like disclosed vulns, talks at conferences and whatnot years ago before going into ML if that matters haha.
Fortunately, that is indeed a thing :) several post-processing tools have some sort of gfpgan_strength (searching as-is should yield results on a few repos) param being passed, also it's been a while since diffusion-based restoration methods are equipped to diminish stochasticity enough to produce great results, worth the time as well!
Also noteworthy: https://openmodeldb.info/?t=faces+restoration+texture-genera...
Hah, so high tech- Turns out the said repos used to do the same, then one of them later added CodeFormer under the hood, conflated the strength with affinity and didn't bother renaming (calling codeformer --gfpgan_strength looks very unhinged to me but oh well haha).
It's definitely doable though! What I had in mind as a GAN equivalent (used to apply in WSI context while back) is akin to Rayleigh EigenDirections in terms of latent space navigation https://www.ecva.net/papers/eccv_2022/papers_ECCV/html/7277_...
There's some code out there, unsure if it's streamlined for this use case but can lend a hand if you decide to give it a shot :)
That's rad, lack of lock-in and sharing in a niche is a big green flag- Hope adding ultrasound to the list of modalities goes as planned, would gladly lend a hand at no cost if it's high on the priority list!
Great to see the detailed tutorial, which reminded me of this forum dedicated to Antenna R&D (mostly for TV and FM Radio but also other types) that has a wealth of info on DIY techniques, physical structures, fabrication, theory, testing, etc.
Great to hear! And if memory serves correct, long time no see (Belgium like 11 years ago? haha) :) the Greek Mozilla squad was tons of fun to hang out with, super interesting discussions that day- project I mentioned briefly back then got awarded by NASA one year later, wish what I did was half as impactful than what you guys got going on at Libre Space though! Hope all is well
We have a machine running Win7 that's just about that age at home, mostly for the sake of keeping old passion projects that rely on heap behavior being deterministic like some forensics plugins and a half baked try at application checkpointing for Windows- despite that meaning a wider attack surface for Win7 (like LFH buffer overflows or use-after-frees), there aren't that many major threats to be wary of especially if an eye is kept at ProcMon then and now, plus maybe a network packet analysis tool of choice with some rules on (anecdotally, said workstation still sees reckless unprotected use from relatives and it's just fine haha).
XP on the other hand needs more precaution and it might be better off kept offline or replaced with a lightweight Linux distro like Lubuntu :)
