Eric Jang: Free Office Hours for Non-Traditional ML Researchers

Xiaoyi Yin (尹肖贻) has kindly translated this post into Chinese ( 中文 ) This post was prompted by a tweet I saw from my colleague, Colin: I'm c...

Xiaoyi Yin (尹肖贻) has kindly translated this post into Chinese (中文) This post was prompted by a tweet I saw from my colleague, Colin: I'm currently a researcher at Google with a "non-traditional background", where non-traditional background means "someone who doesn't have a PhD". People usually get PhDs so they can get hired for jobs that require that credential. In the case of AI/ML, this might be to become a professor at a university, or land a research scientist position at a place like Google, or sometimes even both. At Google it's possible to become a researcher without having a PhD,…

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