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Comment #42424125
Right, that's one. And it's the only one that comes up when I search. Are there others you know of?
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Comment #42424010
What are the companies you know of here?
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Comment #34813123
At what age is this appropriate?
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Comment #28947841
This short essay is roughly a synospsis of the theme behind Asimov's short story The Profession.
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Comment #23978324
1% of sales for Walmart is ~3-4% of profit. That's huge.
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Comment #23975331
Hi, I'm pretty interested in what you're doing here and have built similar tools for other domains. Ping me to talk offline? --> cinjon@nyu.edu.
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Comment #19903113
Hi all, we have a new DFL guide, and we are especially proud of this one. James Allingham and his group made an especially superb curriculum for understanding WGAN. We highly recom…
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Depth First Learning Fellowship: $4000 grants to build ML curricula
Hi all! We posted this earlier and are bringing it back just in case folks missed it in the pre-holiday rush. We're actively looking now for fellows so please don't hesitate if you…
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Comment #18221825
To be clear, MIT very much does not pretend that. It's only recently hired people on that track and has only 4-5 professors in total in that regard.
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Comment #16037854
Link to paper that cedes control of Borg?
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Comment #15265441
This is in some respects what element.ai is aiming to supplement. And having spent a lot of time in the ML community, there's a strong urge from a proportion of the students to sta…
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Comment #13411000
Who are the Econ people you're talking about on twitter?
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Comment #13338498
GB (and Google more broadly) are very interested in this intersection. So yes, there are opportunities to do awesome work here, albeit actually working in a wet-lab is more difficu…
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Comment #13337341
Here's a great blog from one of the residents - http://blog.otoro.net/ It's like any other (research) endeavor with lots of people involved. Some of us share research interests and…
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Comment #13337270
Given what you wrote to Hardmaru, I think you should just apply. The description you gave is a competitive one. Highlight it and then do well on the interview :).
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Comment #13337229
They are. The pace of research is not limited to six months.
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Comment #13337210
The wonderful Chris Olah teaches this, and in some ways he is by making them available through distill.pub. Check it out!
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Comment #13333435
You should just apply. The people you're trying to impress are researchers and engineers, and they have a long history evaluating folks who have proven their merit outside of acade…
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Comment #13333393
Off the cuff, and probably a lot updated since, you should think of it like the normal Google interview but geared towards figuring out how well you'd do in the research environmen…
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Comment #13333386
I think that's a great background for the program and matches a bunch of the current residents. You should definitely apply. I suspect it will only make your later PhD experience b…
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Comment #13333377
Demonstrated interest. From peers in the program, I have found that to be the most consistent marker. (MIT --> Startups --> Research --> GB)
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Comment #13333278
Aye. True story.