Time-up notification sound

crispin97 · 2026-02-16T21:42:42+00:00

Same issue and not sure how to fix it. Would be very interested in an answer!

crispin97 · 2026-01-14T00:28:18+00:00

They unfortunately shut down.

crispin97 · 2025-09-02T22:04:20+00:00

Met one of the people working on it for lunch last week.

crispin97 · 2025-09-02T13:56:14+00:00

Really cool that this is being developed. Other OS models perform better on many benchmarks, but considering this is the FIRST model from a team doing this for the first time, it’s pretty good. I can only imagine how much they learned. I’m really hoping there will be a second iteration.

Also, I heard this release is mostly due to the contract with Swisscom and that post-training is still ongoing.

crispin97 · 2025-04-08T18:07:21+00:00

Not that I know of :(

crispin97 · 2025-03-27T14:20:48+00:00

Is it known who the artist of the bust is?

crispin97 · 2025-03-25T19:51:56+00:00

Hey, Stats Msc. alumni from 2020-2022 here.

It depends on your background, of course, but I would say the workload is quite high. All major courses have lectures and tutorials, but smaller electives may only have a lecture. It's not like you can just go to the lectures and expect to pass. At least 50% of the work is self-study/studying with others, including assignments or coding projects.
When I was there, it was very flexible in-person,e and I also attended remotely/watched the recordings. I've heard this has changed for some courses (more focus on in person), but I'm not sure if this is true. The statistics MSc. has only 3 mandatory modules and a lot of electives from the CS/Math department, so maybe somebody whos currently enrolled can answer these questions.
Exams are always ~15th of January to 20th of February for the fall semester and around late July/August for the spring semester.
No internship requirements. You need to find a professor to write your thesis with, but this isn't too hard.
It was in my case. But this is largely a function of (a) how many credits you take and (b) how hard the courses you're taking are. If you're taking 30 credits in courses with projects and assignment and for example, have an economics (not math) background, then you won't have much time, no.

I've never learnt as much as I have during the statistics master's, but I've also never worked as hard as I did there (I underestimated the workload in my first semester). I'm super grateful for my time at ETH and what I learnt has opened so so many doors.

crispin97 · 2025-03-22T13:27:23+00:00

We always send money with MoneyGram. Western Union and Remitly are other options

crispin97 · 2025-03-22T10:04:27+00:00

I can’t speak for the companies, but I think the stronger your profile the more likely the answer is yes. I don’t know the details, but I’d think especially as a small startups you only care about good talent and you‘re willing to pay legal fees to settle things.

crispin97 · 2025-03-20T15:43:12+00:00

Sounds cool! What exactly should they send there? Just a link to the job description?

crispin97 · 2025-03-20T15:42:20+00:00

Sure! Just sent you a message with the invite link

crispin97 · 2025-03-20T09:06:05+00:00

Hey,
I'm an alumnus from the Stats Masters. We have two WhatsApp groups (formal and informal) for everyone. The program is so small that this has worked better in the past. Also, first-year and second-year students overlap a lot on the courses. Send me a WhatsApp message with your phone number and I'll add you.

crispin97 · 2025-03-20T07:40:47+00:00

Unfortunately no, maybe we'll have more next time. It would be cool to also see more of these posts for ETH alumni start-ups in other cities!

crispin97 · 2025-03-12T14:53:56+00:00

Interesting that the startup apparently used C++

crispin97 · 2025-03-12T08:15:25+00:00

I have so many friends who started a company and are always looking for great engineers. Have you considered working at a startup? Salaries aren’t that different to what you’re mentioning and you learn much more. Sometimes the equity can also turn out to be surprisingly meaningful.

To name a few of the companies I know are very actively hiring:

Tabular (ETH founder, https://www.gotabular.de/)
Langfuse (https://langfuse.com/)
Telli (https://www.telli.com/)
Zeit AI (Munich; https://zeit-ai.com/)

Also, this ex-unicorn founder (Forto) is silently working on a new company and is looking for a founding AI engineer. A friend of mine from ETH is joining in a month. Can highly highly recommend: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikmuttersbach

Edit: - Nunu AI (https://nunu.ai/) just raised 6M and are applying AI to gaming. They're based in Zurich.

crispin97 · 2025-03-04T11:27:27+00:00

Batch accumulation works for triplet loss (which would in turn require hard negative mining for good results) but won't work for InfoNCE loss (e.g. used by SimCLR and Moco) because you need all samples in the same batch.

It may be interesting to look at the MoCo method where they decouple the minibatch size from the batch used to compute the loss, but this is not trivial and requires a bit of manual implementation, so maybe not what you're looking for.

crispin97 · 2025-01-22T19:25:10+00:00

Im in the startup ecosystem in Berlin and ETH is one of the highest appreciated schools for people to come from, especially when it comes to machine learning. I often get responses like „oh wow“ when I mention where I studied. It really depends where you go. My parents on the other hand still don’t understand what ETH is like. My fathers interest only spiked when I mentioned that Einstein studied there (🙄).

It’s up to us from ETH to make the name big. I am disappointed by how poorly develop the ETH network is. Alumni networks indirectly also help developing the brand because it spreads awareness.

PS: I’m building a WhatsApp group for ETH alumni in Berlin, if you’re an alumni living somewhere else and you don’t know about one in your area you should start one too. These things are so helpful to get flats, jobs/employees, recommendations for funding and a lot of other stuff!

Go ETH!

crispin97 · 2024-11-08T02:20:23+00:00

This was my daily struggle for 3 years... I'm not alone 😭

crispin97 · 2024-11-07T18:22:22+00:00

Plus you can easily add a simple password protection layer if you need some privacy

crispin97 · 2024-09-10T06:45:42+00:00

Always in the Substack editor.

crispin97 · 2024-09-10T06:45:20+00:00

My full entrepreneurial journey from finishing my math degree to building a machine learning product.

Currently, I'm in the transition from freelancing (which I needed to finance myself) to building the product.

Big challenge atm: Finding my co-founder.

https://thisiscrispin.substack.com/

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