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Reflections on the Google AI Residency One Year On – Joe Antognini

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About a year ago I finished up a year of doing machine learning research at Google as a Google AI Resident. Technically when I started I was a Google Brain Resident, but midway through the powers that be decided to rebrand the program and thereafter I was supposed to refer to myself as a Google AI Resident. I was in the second cohort so the program as a whole was still having a few teething issues, but it was nevertheless an extraordinarily valuable experience. This is a (fairly lengthy) blog post about my time there. I think I first heard about the Google Brain Residency from one of Jeff Dean’s tweets and decided to apply almost on a whim. The cover letter was probably the most important part of the application. I treated it almost like a short research proposal, starting with some unifying threads in my past work and explaining how they were motivating the questions I wanted to answer at Google and why Google would be a great place to try to solve those problems. In my case I had bee

About a year ago I finished up a year of doing machine learning research at Google as a Google AI Resident. Technically when I started I was a Google Brain Resident, but midway through the powers that be decided to rebrand the program and thereafter I was supposed to refer to myself as a Google AI Resident. I was in the second cohort so the program as a whole was still having a few teething issues, but it was nevertheless an extraordinarily valuable experience. This is a (fairly lengthy) blog post about my time there. The view from Google's San Francisco office and a lovely place to write. App

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