kal
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kal
@WingsofKarikala
humans are reward hackers. pursuing my gradient of interestingness



Self-sabotaging beliefs: “I can’t learn math” “I am not into fitness” “I am shy” I _________.

Twitter thoughts are always illuminating. Many have accused me of commiting a crime by hiring an unpaid intern. Interns do vastly different things in a company and a research lab in an IIT. Please do read my bio - we are not a for profit company and operate on razor-thin budgets. :) When we hire an intern in our research lab, I'm basically taking an understudy in research, usually in 2nd or 3rd year of undergrad. It's a huge time sink for me and the lab as our effort is primarily directed at Masters and PhD scholars. However, it is also our duty to train the next gen. So we put in time and effort to train very few selected interns in specialized research and sometimes it leads to a research paper or product. There is no other expectation except that they work diligently and get trained to be a more skillful engineer. Please don't compare with industry Internships where many companies are getting regular company work done for free or slavery wages in the name of internships. People even hire graduates as interns in industry these days and the word has lost all meaning. In our world, it just has a selfless meaning of training an inexperienced undergraduate in a specialized skill with no expectation in return. P.S. All my lab interns get paid. However, apples and oranges.
