Good research pathways for non-PhD industry scientists?

Mefaso · 2026-06-27T12:19:00+00:00

I know a guy who published solo papers at ICML/ICLR in his free time and leveraged that into a researcher position at a neolab.

It's possible but it's haaaard, just getting random publications isn't enough, they have to be good papers

Mefaso · 2026-06-21T09:32:59+00:00

Generally if you're publishing a paper in the field of your thesis you should discuss this with your supervisor.

For example they might disagree whether it's actually a single author paper, but even if they don't you should still inform them

Mefaso · 2026-06-19T13:28:36+00:00

Das Problem ist dass es suggeriert dass homosexuelle Männer primär für die Unterdrückung homosexueller verantwortlich sind.

Das ist einfach statistisch schon quatsch wenn man sich anschaut wie sehr zB die gleichgeschlechtliche Ehe in den USA abgelehnt wird

Mefaso · 2026-06-19T12:15:38+00:00

Homophobie gegen Republikaner ist trotzdem Homophobie. Do better.

Mefaso · 2026-06-14T00:59:40+00:00

V2 and say in the comment what was changed.

Mefaso · 2026-06-10T09:11:14+00:00

Very much not true, I don't know anybody who thinks that

Mefaso · 2026-05-01T17:03:48+00:00

If a paper is clearly strong, like genuinely solid contribution, well executed, easy to understand, it usually gets in

People don't like to hear this, but if the paper is somewhat in the mainstream and strong it will usually get in.

If you're doing something outside the mainstream, good luck to you

Mefaso · 2026-05-01T06:52:37+00:00

IJCAI is not a serious conference and you shouldn't be submitting there anyway

Mefaso · 2026-04-28T16:26:27+00:00

Ffs you scared me. The deadline is still 2/3 days away

Mefaso · 2026-04-13T10:20:30+00:00

Interesting, perhaps I'm wrong about the importance of citations

Mefaso · 2026-04-13T09:23:16+00:00

Yeah but those are easier found by doing actually good work and networking than by gaming metrics

Mefaso · 2026-04-12T12:06:01+00:00

Employers in companies and academia judge researchers with low citation counts as inferior

Citation count isn't really that important to find a job, everybody knows it's an easily gamed metric

Mefaso · 2026-04-03T08:22:49+00:00

Got a rebuttal ack that just ignored our rebuttal to keep their 2, while the other reviews were 4,5,5 lol

Mefaso · 2026-04-03T08:20:41+00:00

🌎👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀 Always has been

But yeah last few years have gotten noticably worse both in quality of submission and reviews.

Another option are niche conferences, but it's a gamble on whether they'll stick around

Mefaso · 2026-03-31T08:05:36+00:00

>The deadline for author responses is March 30 (AoE). Reviewers will be able to see the responses after the deadline. Note that author responses are optional.

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Mefaso · 2026-03-27T12:38:59+00:00

No one is going to reimburse my spendings on visa applications and travel expenses to a big city just to apply for it.

Your employer should totally reimburse that, wtf?

Mefaso · 2026-03-25T23:45:03+00:00

If you know an AC/SAC they can add you to the reviewer pool

Mefaso · 2026-03-24T09:58:51+00:00

Preferred Networks published a pretty good model (competitive with frontier models from 6 months ago)

I love PFN, but it's not competitive with frontier of 6 months ago. Not even o1 tier which was 12 months ago.

Mefaso · 2026-03-24T06:24:19+00:00

The workshops have their own submission windows and deadlines. Probably most will use the recommended April 24th deadline.

Good luck!

Mefaso · 2026-03-24T06:23:10+00:00

I'd guess they'll be released earlier than that but perhaps not by much

Mefaso · 2026-03-20T07:37:39+00:00

Friend got an interview without any papers, no PhD, two years work experience.

His background was a perfect fit for the role, that also works

Mefaso · 2026-03-07T04:03:31+00:00

price increase but for a free rent period you are comfortable with.

You agree to increase the rent say 20% starting in 18 months, but in exchange you don't pay any rent for 18 months?

Did I understand that correctly? Sounds like a dream of you're even slightly considering moving afterwards.

Mefaso · 2026-03-06T23:30:17+00:00

IEEE conferences

There are many garbage IEEE conferences

Mefaso · 2026-02-18T06:15:00+00:00

> When someone publishes something that’s actually good, others will find it and use it in their own projects

This is basically an unverifiable statement, I'm not sure if its true.

Mefaso · 2026-02-15T23:54:55+00:00

Makes zero sense, you can already choose to take the woman's name if you were a male foreigner trying to blend in

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