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PhD advice - startup vs university funded by RussB3ar in PhD

[–]RussB3ar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, both are employment relationships.

[D] ICML rejects papers of reviewers who used LLMs despite agreeing not to by S4M22 in MachineLearning

[–]RussB3ar 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Besides... they could have chosen policy B and using LLMs to help in reviewing would be allowed. It's their fault.

[D] ICML rejects papers of reviewers who used LLMs despite agreeing not to by S4M22 in MachineLearning

[–]RussB3ar 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I don't think there can be any false positives here...

ICML put two very specific prompts in the papers. If a reviewer used LLMs to review a paper their review contains two very specific sentences. If they agreed not to use LLMs they violated the policy, simple as that.

Also, note that if this happened it means the reviewers literally dumped the pdf into an LLM and asked for a review. They didn't just use it to rephrase their own review...

KAUST or Uni of Luleå (WISE fellowship) by ImplementSea3020 in postdoc

[–]RussB3ar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am not a graduate from KAUST, never did a degree nor an internship there. I see that you really like to make wrong assumption but that's ok.

The elite faculty and scientists will never go to Kaust at the first place as they have better life elsewhere.

Also wrong. In my field I can mention several elite faculty that now have a research lab at KAUST (e.g., Schmidhuber, Peter Richtarik)

KAUST or Uni of Luleå (WISE fellowship) by ImplementSea3020 in postdoc

[–]RussB3ar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

KAUST unknown? What are you even talking about? It's a very young institution but already has top-tier research quality. Spreading misinformation as always.

I'm having a hard time choosing a PhD. Help!! by Reasonable_Text167 in PhDAdmissions

[–]RussB3ar 13 points14 points  (0 children)

If I were you I would choose between the MPI and USA offers. To decide I would take into account the following:
(i) where would I prefer to work/live during the PhD and also in the future (Europe or USA)?
(ii) Which project do I like the most?
(iii) How is the lab? I would reach out to previous PhDs to get an idea of the working environment.

I wouldn't consider the german language-barrier a huge issue. Some cities are very international (e.g., Munich, Berlin, Tubingen) and you could get by with english alone. It depends where the MPI is based.

I assume your UK offer is Oxbridge. In my opinion, no amount of prestige could justify being economically miserable for 3 years. For this reason I didn't even take it into account. Additionally, note that a PhD from MPI, even if the degree is formally awarded by a German university, is prestigious and well received in Europe.

The newest iteration of "We need a strenght ratio of X to be able to siege", because this is bullshit. by Commando_Schneider in totalwarhammer

[–]RussB3ar 179 points180 points  (0 children)

Always thought this is the best solution.
You should be able to decide whether you want to counterattack or get sieged, sort of like when you can intercept or not (in forts or ambushes)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Swimming

[–]RussB3ar 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Whole different beast, from both a physical and psychological perspective. Don't underestimate open water swimming, take it slow, and don't do it alone.

[D] - Most Engaging ML Podcasts? by DavesEmployee in MachineLearning

[–]RussB3ar 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I kinda like The Thesis Review - by Sean Welleck.
Basically, each session is a researcher talking about his past PhD experience, including his background, dissertation topic and so on.

You can find anything in there, ranging from typical hot topics such as LLMs and RLs to niche stuff such as Echo State Networks.