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Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work

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Re: Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work

#11

Quite a big loss for Apple. Ian was the primary author of the 2014 GAN paper. https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661

I can tell you from direct experience that he is no big loss for Apple. And he wasn't "Apple's Director of ML" as in the headline makes it sound like the top company lead for this topic. He was a director, among many. A reasonably sized group leader, not say, a JG.

Re: Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work

#14

Quite a big loss for Apple. Ian was the primary author of the 2014 GAN paper. https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661

I can tell you from direct experience that he is no big loss for Apple. And he wasn't "Apple's Director of ML" as in the headline makes it sound like the top company lead for this topic. He was a director, among many. A reasonably sized group leader, not say, a JG.

Can you elaborate on this.

Re: Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work

#15
even pre-pan, johny srouji wouldn't let the silicon team move into the open plan UFO and built them a trailer or something in the parking lot

(per this https://www.macrumors.com/2017/08/09/apple-park-employees-op...)

guessing goodfellow has specific reasons for this move (like everyone), but feels increasingly like wfh has exposed gaps in our ability to manage or even measure the productivity of knowledge workers

Re: Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work

#17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can tell you from direct experience that he is no big loss for Apple. And he wasn't "Apple's Director of ML" as in the headline makes it sound like the top company lead for this topic. He was a director, among many. A reasonably sized group leader, not say, a JG.

Can you elaborate on this.

I assume he just thinks Siri sucks?

Re: Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work

#18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can tell you from direct experience that he is no big loss for Apple. And he wasn't "Apple's Director of ML" as in the headline makes it sound like the top company lead for this topic. He was a director, among many. A reasonably sized group leader, not say, a JG.

Can you elaborate on this.

GANs were just low hanging fruit that Schmidhuber already found. By most accounts Ian Goodfellow is kind of an asshole, and there was some drama about him a few times over the years. I don’t know the man, that’s just what I’ve heard.

Re: Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work

#19
post #10

I recently left Amazon for a fully remote position and that was my sole decision making factor.

Amazon recently recruited me for a job, a job that I already do remotely for a different company, and I turned it down for the same reason. The job at amazon paid way more, but I'm far more productive and happier at home.

I see other jobs at amazon that are remote, but this particular department worked with hardware that they weren't interested in leaving the office. Again, I've worked remotely with similar hardware from the company that pioneered this type of hardware and have done so since 2008. We figured out security, remote testing, local development, software simulations, etc. and haven't had a single leak, hack, etc.

Re: Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work

#20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can tell you from direct experience that he is no big loss for Apple. And he wasn't "Apple's Director of ML" as in the headline makes it sound like the top company lead for this topic. He was a director, among many. A reasonably sized group leader, not say, a JG.

Can you elaborate on this.

I guess citations do not directly translate into products?
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