u/sunbears_and_sunfish

In basketball/NBA, there's plenty of archetypes of players that do really well in college but not the NBA. One example that comes to mind are small power forwards/tweeners, who often rely on playing in the post and can't really shoot. A recent player that fits this is Johni Broome, who was really good in college but only got drafted 35th because his playstyle just doesn't translate to the NBA.

Curious if there's anything similar in the NFL? I know teams will often draft on physicals/intangibles, but curious about the reverse.

Anyone know where to get undergrad funding to attend events without being part of any research groups? I'm a CompE student and would like to go to OpenAI Dev Day, but the ticket is 650 dollars. I emailed a couple different departments, they either referred me to other departments or ghosted me.

Planning to hike Emeishan on August 25th, starting at Wuxiangang to (hopefully) Taiziping, and then wake up early the next day to see Golden Summit during sunrise. I've always found hiking more enjoyable with someone else, so just wanted to post and see if I could find anyone interested in hiking with me(doesn't need to be the whole path, my understanding is a lot of people skip the early parts since there isn't as much scenery. If anyone is interested, feel free to dm me!

Btw I'm 20M Chinese American, fluent in Mandarin!

I'm in a unique scenario in terms of planning for my career. This past summer, I've been interning at a Chinese robotics company with plans to work with another Chinese company this fall out of their US location. The plan was originally to just use these experiences as a stepping stone for interning at more prestigious American companies.

However, in terms of robotics, it really feels like China is ahead. I'm new to the field, so my understanding could be off, but they have a better supply chain for sourcing and building robots, more and more talent is returning to China rather than staying in America, and the government isn't actively crippling innovation by doing stupid import bans(can you tell I'm a little annoyed by recent FCC regulations?). In comparison to before, when China was primarily responsible just for manufacturing, more and more Chinese companies are pushing frontier work, in both models and hardware.

I'm now seriously considering going to China next summer for my internship, rather than applying for US based ones. I'm Chinese American, fluent in Chinese, and have already made some connections, Visa/Citizenship issues aside, I also feel like landing Chinese internships would be way easier. Before I seriously commit to anything, I'd really appreciate anyone with more experience. Do you feel like theres this gap increasing between the US and China, or have these kind of cycles passed before? And if you were beginning your career right now, where would you try to work?