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Academic-Life

Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Academic-Life”

Three Years, Six Semesters: What Writing My Thesis Actually Taught Me

My Master’s research was the center of my world for three years. Now that it's over, I look back and ask what I really learned in the process—not about modeling, but about life and work.

Three lessons on Bayesian optimization, and one on humility

How a failed reproducibility test exposed three convergence bugs in my Bayesian optimization — stochastic simulations, unidentifiable parameters, and the wrong scale — and one lesson in humility I get in the way.

Figaro - or how we create the app we need

How AI is democratizing app development — and how my team built Figaro, a tool to eliminate one of science's most tedious workflows.

Developing MIRA

How we used AI to develop a visualization tool for our research field, and what I learned along the way.

The Devil Is in the Details: Modeling Small-Scale Land-Use Change in Madagascar

Extended research materials for the zoological conference poster: Modeling smallholder land-use patterns and tick-borne disease risks in Madagascar.

My Journey at the an open University: A Candid Look at the Experience

my experience at the Open University of Israel was a unique period in my life. It was filled with the wonderful feeling of freedom and fulfillment but also presented its own set of challenges. This text is meant to help people decide if this experience is right for them.

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