[bathyspheric]

Far from heavyweight, I was building innovative solutions for a small consultancy that became more successful and more practised at the same old solutions. Cue same boring problems. I took two years part-time to retrain with an education degree and now teach bright young minds 9-3 each day for 40 weeks a year. Pay cut worth it. All I was asking for at the end, was interesting problems to solve, but now I know that young people are more interesting and more worthwhile than any neural net or optimization problem. My 2c.

[short_sells_poo]

So you went from training artificial neural networks to training biological neural networks? The latter takes longer I believe but the biological networks go on to solve much more interesting problems :)

[sfriedr]

I do wonder what it was specifically that you didn't like training NN's. At least when doing research on NN's, everything is very interesting, as many many aspects of them aren't well understood.