This worldly life is no more than play and amusement. But the Hereafter is indeed the real life, if only they knew. [1]
Know that this worldly life is no more than play, amusement, luxury, mutual boasting, and competition in wealth and children. This is like rain that causes plants to grow, to the delight of the planters. But later the plants dry up and you see them wither, then they are reduced to chaff. And in the Hereafter there will be either severe punishment or forgiveness and pleasure of Allah, whereas the life of this world is no more than the delusion of enjoyment. [2]
Consider applying PhD program to some ML labs in Europe other than UK and France, they pay livable salaries like junior engineers. Better if in Swiss since the salaries are much higher.
European ML labs generally have less prestige than US/China ML labs but they pay much more humane wages even for people with family.
Isn’t this more of symptom of modern western values?
Try a book by Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss), like the Road to Mecca.
Every year during hajj in Mecca, there’s profound view of sea of humans wearing white from vast different backgrounds, wealth, health, ethnicities, continents. You can find Japanese, Africans, Australians, Russians, Indonesians, etc, variety of skin colors and builds, in one place.
Good code? Code reading is more like understanding different cultures. Read big tech codebases meta and google, to startups codebases like openai and comma.ai, you will see.
Software engineering is hard problem. How is Julia in multiple authors codebase? A language need to consider ergonomics of multiple users working on same thing. Reading >> Writing.
C++/Python still hold ground in this regards sadly. One side for low-level control, another side for glue code.
Multimodal dataset should be multimedia: text, audio, images, video, and optionally more like sensor readings and robot actions.