[D] Off my chest. I'm doing PhD in ML, and I'm a failure.

I'm halfway through my ML PhD.

I was quite lucky and got into a good program, especially in a good lab where students are superstars and get fancy jobs upon graduation. I'm not one of them. I have one crappy, not-so-technical publication and I'm struggling to find a new problem that is solvable within my capacity. I've tried hard. I've been doing research throughout my undergrad and masters, doing everything I could – doing projects, reading papers, taking ML and …

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