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ML Tech Lead @sourceful ⏩: @illumina AI Lab @qualcomm AI, PhD @LSEStatistics 📜 generative models 🤪 joking not joking
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Lately I've received many DMs asking about compensations in Europe for ML roles. It seems that comp information outside the US is either badly estimated or hugely skewed by US comps. So I built a simple app last wkd for collecting European tech comps:
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Researchers’ idea of retirement:
Open a cafe in Asia, learn a new language, and write papers.
Move to an island, learn fishing, and write papers.
Buy a house in a remote European town, grow your own vegetables, and … write papers.
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Got my global talent visa within a week after submitting the application! Yayyy! The github follow count must've impressed them :DD Thanks for the community. If anyone has questions, I can try my best to answer them.
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I may have failed another leetcode coding interview. On my way to get wine. Mehhh.
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Karpathy should do a tutorial on how to maintain your productivity while tweeting so often.
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Had a live coding interview in which I couldn’t remember the args passed to conv layers in pytorch. Had to swear to the interviewer that I’d written like 100 cnns. Recently I had to turn copilot off as a preparation for future interviews…
ChatGPT and copilot have completely changed the way I code. I now spend much of my "coding" time giving detailed instructions and copying or accepting generated code. I type way less and look up documentation way less. There's no going back.
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@desired_state
Current situation is companies asking applicants if they need a visa as part of the application so they can filter them out like this, without specifying if they can sponsor. Why wouldn’t you say it in the job description so ppl wouldn’t waste their time to apply? Seems sane too.
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🎉My quickest job rejection record: I submitted my application 10pm the night before, and got rejected at 9.07am the next morning. It's like someone went to work, made a cup of tea, turned on their computer, and BANG💥!
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Holiday’s over! I’m starting today
@sourceful
as an ML tech lead to improve the package design platform 🎉🥳🙌 I’ve been wanting to work on generative models for design since the first ever GAN project. So excited that this journey finally started 😃
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I drafted 3 letters of recommendation for myself today. I finally realised that I am simply too brilliant for any job on the market.
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@MarkMoyou
Oh no, would I be blacklisted by NVIDIA now?
If skill sets for doing LLMs are required for this role, there are more relevant bullet points than minimum 8 papers.
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Having missed two NeurIPS due to visa issues, and two more due to the pandemic, I'll be attending my first in-person ML conference ever after an entire 4.5 years of PhD life. How exciting 🤩🤩🤩
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While some worry about not having a publication, I keep getting rejected for being "too researchy". You will have to be a full stack research scientist to stand a chance in this market.
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Recruiter: when was the last time you helped someone solve a technical problem?
Me: last night. I helped ChatGPT fix the bugs in their code.
The recruiter didn’t laugh.
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@Charbel_Sakr
They are looking for those at a large lab that puts everyone’s name on papers. I know great academics who only keep 1-2 students over a 4-year span. The quality of papers produced from them is high. What’s the point to “collaborate” just to get 8 papers in 4 years? It’s nuts.
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@zornsllama
@kgourg
I don't know anyone who published more than 8 papers to all of which they made substantial contributions. This kind of requirements just favour candidates in a big lab.
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Turns out that being ghosted by final interviewers is much more annoying than by random dates.
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PhD defence preparation progress
✅ outfit decided
❌ ...
❌ ...
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Glad to see discussions on leetcode interviews following my failure last Friday... Just want to give a bit of context, based on my personal experience.
I mainly apply for AI/ML scientist roles, mixed with a small portion of MLE but never SWE.
I may have failed another leetcode coding interview. On my way to get wine. Mehhh.
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I passed my PhD viva today! Big thank you to my examiners Prof. Milan Vojnovic and Dr.
@shakir_za
for a great viva experience, for the opportunity to discuss my research, and for the insightful feedback. Never thought I would enjoy it so much 😆
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OMG, I may be over-qualified for this one. This ability is powered by a shower a day.
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I think we should be able to reject papers for the lack of novelty in the title. At this stage, desk reject the "all you need" gang.
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No offence. This is not good.
This study found that if
@_akhaliq
and
@arankomatsuzaki
tweet about an AI / ML paper, that paper will likely end up with higher citation numbers.
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Actually don't know where to start with this one. Twists and turns... 😵💫
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@william82804651
We need a filter like that on job seeking site to auto-skip employers who don’t provide visa sponsorships.
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A friend currently on the job market told me that she sent out nearly 1300 resumes and got 3 interviews. Is the market even worse than last year???
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London housing market is in such a crisis that I used my Dr. title for the first time in case it might add any bonus points to my offer. For those who are considering doing a PhD for the title, this is today's motivation boost.
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Oh please don’t play this down. This is the life of a GPU millionaire.
Someone is running jobs on 128 GPU nodes (~1000 A100) during holidays. Is this a normal PhD life?
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Let me get this straight. You can use a T4 on Colab for free for 12 hours without subscription. But once you subscribe to Colab Pro with compute units or buy them via pay as you go, T4 costs about 2 units per hour to run?
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I’m on the job market again, planning to come back to generative models. If you know any openings in this space, a tip would be highly appreciated. My personal website is in the bio, and google scholar page is here:
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Wouldn’t speak another word. If the house was on fire, I’d have to text the fire department.
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@soroush_srd
Getting rejected is good. Think about the applications you’ve never heard back.
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I’ve become a jobaholic. Whenever I feel frustrated, I go apply for 10 more jobs.
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Sam Altman was hailed as "the father of ChatGPT" by the Chinese media. Given how little fathers usually contribute to parenting in China, I don't disagree.
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Had two successful leetcode interviews 😆
Is there a Not-A-Total-LC-Loser club I can join?
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If you are applying for the UK global talent visa as an AI/ML expert under the digital technology sector, you cannot show off your proficiency of using any AI/ML technology to make this application.
I think I think! That they are trying to make a joke.
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@isabelacarv
@ghostapple_ari
@cindywangbrandt
As someone born and raised in China, I totally agree with this. Specifically calling a friend to go to the supermarket, dry cleaning or the tailors to alter your trousers is pretty weird to me. It probably depends more on the person rather than nationality.
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For anyone out there who'd accept this deal, please explain to me why you wouldn't found your own startup.
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10 years in the UK, still struggling with military alphabet. Whenever I need to spell my name on the phone, all the words start wrestling and flying around. I was like T for transformer, I for intelligence, A for artificial .. N for ummmmm nan
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IMHO, it'd save both of us some time if you wrote a little sentence about this in the 2-page long job description. But thanks for contributing to my rejection collection.
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Random person: “I don’t like the method proposed in the paper. But I like the paper.” 🤯
Can we pleeeease all agree that if you don’t like the patty in a burger, it means you don’t like the burger?!
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The clue 🕵️♀️ ———-> *Forbes 30 under 30*
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Reached a new level of job hunting:
I only look at jobs posted within the past 24 hours, and still feel that I’ve seen them all.
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Ahh the benefit of being an MLE. What would you do with this massive interest free loan from your employer?
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3rd week into my internship. I'm convinced that anyone who can sit in a 2-hour long meeting and still ask questions about the technical details is from a special talent programme I do not belong to.
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Oh yea how disappointing when I can only earn more than 95% of the population instead of 99% at 22 years old. The economy is bad. People are struggling to have their ends meet. And here's us, complaining about not being able to get FAANG jobs so easily anymore.
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Gaaaad, those Glassdoor estimates 🫣 it’s okay if you don’t know the salaries. No need to label a dog as cat.
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We’ve got over 100 entries now for tech salaries in Europe, including FAANG firms as well as startups. Thanks for those who contributed! It’s not a lot of data but should provide a rough idea for what you can expect.
Lately I've received many DMs asking about compensations in Europe for ML roles. It seems that comp information outside the US is either badly estimated or hugely skewed by US comps. So I built a simple app last wkd for collecting European tech comps:
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Random DM: wow can’t believe even you are struggling to find a job. You can imagine what it is like for a man in this market. Blah blah blah, but you are a woman, blah blah blah blah
Which year is this? Pisssss ooooooff 😠
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Just travelled back from a no-twitter land where 1 hour was equivalent to 7 ML years on here. What have I missed? Did we solve AGI yet?
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Cousins is all you need.
Ok hold up, pump the brakes
Are you telling me that Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD, and Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, are COUSINS????
I'm sorry, WHAT????
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Am I the only survivor of a caffeine-free PhD? This means no coffee, tea, energy drinks, or chocolates.
Turns out, the secret formula to surviving PhD life is 90% coffee
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Don’t worry about the comments. They are just the word “interested” repeated 6875 times.
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I started my job search by leetcoding. But in my recent interviews, 80% didn't ask LC Qs. Could be because most of them are with smaller labs or startups. So I stopped spending time on it. The difficulty of the Q asked in my interview was reasonable. I am just bad at it.
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Every time when I post a ridiculously low salary, US employees are like, ahh it’s the UK, poor British workers. Lololol no it’s not. London tech salaries are often about 50% of what you get in the states, not 10%, okaaaaay?
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Consider this a semi-official explanation to that requirement. Take a deep breath, PhD students.
@linylinx
Allow me to apologize. This bullet item was posted in error. NVIDIA looks for the quality of publications. We are not concerned with quantity.
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It was much more common for the first round to be leetcode interviews in the past, especially at large tech companies and investment banks. Normally they are easy-medium level questions, although banks really like to ask DP problems.
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Ugh. Who told me nobody would ever read your PhD thesis except for your supervisor and examiners? If I knew it'd be cited in some sexy foreign language, I would've put more effort
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Guess what 😵 these mistakes are much more difficult to correct than editing a Wikipedia page.
Wow somehow I've been completely erased from the history of Kaggle.
For the record, the US company that was funded, Kaggle Inc, was owned equally by Anthony Goldbloom and I with a minority holding by Nick Gruen. Ben Hamner didn't join until later.
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Was horrified by some tweets on my timeline. Thought this site was becoming LinkedIn. Then I realised it was under the “For You” section. Phew. What a shit feature.
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@JWach26
@thechosenberg
You speak as if phds can’t be cs grads lol if you interview a PhD who have worked on theoretical work only for a technical role, that’s on you.
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Seeking someone who wants to do 3D reconstruction and comes with a looot of GPUs 😂
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Pinecone is pretty noiiiice. Any other good vector databases to recommend?
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You know you’ve found your co-authors in crime when they proposed a meeting agenda like this:
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3/7 paper reviews done. 2/3 accepts. I really enjoyed reading one of them. Hope it gets in 💜
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