ML Researcher
topic on 4 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
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Swulinski: Marketing Acquisition Talent May See ML-Level Hiring Boom Within a Year
“I think we're coming to the place that like people in these marketing roles also are They're unicorns. They're rare, and you want them in your company, and I think that same like ML crazy moment is maybe going to happen over the next year in, in the marketing …”
Krishnan: Application startups do not need to hire ML researchers
“If it's an application startup, I don't think you even need an ML researcher to begin with, right? And even an ML researcher will get frustrated.”
Firshman: Academic ML researchers make poor software users due to six-month cycles
“And they were like, what was funny about that is they were like, not very good users. Like, they were doing great work, obviously, but the way that research worked is that they just made, like, one thing every six months, and they just fired and forgot it. Lik…”
Biewald: Nvidia Chips Forced ML Researchers To Become Software Developers
“When NVIDIA came along and these chips worked for deep learning, it just, like, broke the entire stack. Like, it was, like, a first time in my career where I'm, like, running into, like, linker errors. I'm like, what the fuck is a linker error? Like, I vaguely…”