I‘m also a self diagnosed aphant. I was so relived when I found out, school was very frustrating since there are so many learning methods that are built for people with a mind that’s able to picture stuff also hard to remember faces, I usually only know some facts about people, like they have red hair, brown eyes… even family members
but I can at least hear sounds in my mind :) I read that this is a similar spectrum thing where some people hear nothing and others can replay everything
I'm a junior front-end (open for full-stack) web developer / designer (logos, icons, packaging, graphs) and entrepreneur. I'm currently bootstrapping my own start-up and now looking for freelance work to pay the bills :D
Software: Ruby on Rails / CSS / HTML / TS / JS / Wordpress / Django
Data visualization and Geo-Analysis: R / ArcGIS
Design and Image processing: Krita / Blender / Adobe Illustrator / Gimp
Previously, I've worked at several small start-ups. I love working with small teams and getting my hands dirty, always open to work with a new tool or programming language. My colleagues and former team mates appreciate my creativity and ability to think outside the box :)
I studied one year of medicine in Switzerland and switched to something different afterwards (at ETH Zürich, a more technical university). My expectations of what medicine would be like were completely different than what it actually was.
In my experience medicine was:
- too many entitled people (due to the student selection process)
- huge competition between the students (no one cooperating, or sharing learnings)
- a lot of learning by heart (which I'm not good at & is very boring)
- not very difficult to pass the exams
These were all reasons why I switched, but the main reason was the job I would end up with in the end. It's so much harder to work remote, have a good work life balance and move abroad (depending on where you live) once you start working than in other jobs.
I think even if you don't end up in machine learning in the end, having a strong computer science and math background opens you so many possibilities in this world that I would give it another go if I were you (after some rest, like others already recommended). Maybe you could make an exchange semester in another country? that can really help motivation wise :)
Thanks for the response! Interesting comment :)
I do however suspect that the "entitlement" you see among medical students has more to due with societal prestige than selection process, but this is pure speculation of course.
Yeah that's probably true :D it was just hard to imagine myself working with this kind of people for the rest of my life :O (of course not everyone was like this...)
I think it's good that unique user tracking is not possible with Fugu. In my opinion, a lot of developers and companies start tracking all kind of detailed user data only because it's possible and they feel like they might need it later. Data collection and analysation can become an obsession, that doesn't even really serve a real purpose anymore :D and is just invading peoples privacy for nothing
I think it’s also the reason why I was good at maths, very used to conceptualize stuff