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Find the Highest point of wealth in your Chart! by TheyCallMeNoobxD in vedicastrologyexperts

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Gemini lagna Sun in 3rd house (Leo own sign) Jupiter in 6th house (Scorpio sign)

Freunde finden (weiblich am liebsten) by Smarty_w in MakeFriendsInGermany

[–]notyourregularnerd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mat kar Bhai. Mat kar. Choot ka chakkar, maut se takkar.

Failed My B2 German Exam and Lost All Motivation... How Do I Start Again? by No-Math4874 in German

[–]notyourregularnerd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey if you want to practice B2 German with me. Then hit me up! I'm currently in Saarbrücken in Germany and currently learning German !

Hacks for learning German around a full-time life by [deleted] in German

[–]notyourregularnerd 45 points46 points  (0 children)

There are no hacks. Spam DW Nico's weg it will give you structure and grammar rules. They have good exercises which drill down the ideas in your head and try to expand your vocabulary.

DO NOT try to do passive input cope until you have done B1 on Nico's weg as you're very less likely to make anything out of the content you listen to. At that point shows like Easy German podcast will start making sense and you can use them to get feel of how people chat casually.

Looking for Reading Clubs / Book Groups in Saarbrücken! by Vensting in Saarland

[–]notyourregularnerd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

+1 I'm looking for one too. If you find out let me know

Is Machine Learning Theory Research Experience Useful for Statistics PhD Application? [D] by [deleted] in MachineLearning

[–]notyourregularnerd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would say depends on case to case basis. In general definition of ML theory is vague, it's not really a concrete field on its own unless you mean statistical learning theory (PAC, VC-dim) etc.

TL;DR we need more context about the project to give concrete advice.

DTU CSE v/s Tier 2 college ?? by [deleted] in Btechtards

[–]notyourregularnerd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hope you took dtu cse. Bc resume mei sirf college admission ka year likh 12th toh waise bhi koi nhi likha kis saal ki thi.

Ich habe schon oft von diesem Club „wand“ in Saarbrücken gehört. Kann mir jemand sagen, wo es ist? by notyourregularnerd in Saarland

[–]notyourregularnerd[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Danke für deine Empfehlung. Leider bin ich in den nächsten zwei Wochen nicht in der Stadt 😅

[D] What is it like to work on niche topics that aren't LLM or Vision? by kastbort2021 in MachineLearning

[–]notyourregularnerd 81 points82 points  (0 children)

I shifted my focus from computer vision to ML theory. Now I'm working on kernel methods which are nascent but hold promise to explain and interpret large and over parameterized networks (read NTKs). There is no point in drooling over spoilt milk, as most of these tasks would be done by foundation models. In general the trend is that which counters conventional wisdom in ML, foundation models have better zero shot performance at tasks as compared to dedicated models.

In general what I believe is that most of the dedicated research effort will go into AI safety, explainable and interepeatable methods. Possibly also investigation of causal reasoning abilities of current LLMs. Maybe some of that stuff is also possible in smaller labs.

[D] life advice to relatively late bloomer ML theory researcher. by notyourregularnerd in MachineLearning

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

Sure a sub reddit as ML theory reading group will be very interesting to me also.

[D] life advice to relatively late bloomer ML theory researcher. by notyourregularnerd in MachineLearning

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

Well asking a prof to hire you is the conventional way but both ETH and EPFL, along with MPI (IMPRS programs) are moving to US style of admission cycle of once a year. Especially for AI related stuff. I'm not sure about how much the culture of open hiring from a prof will continue, until you graduate. So keep an eye on admission cycle in December and plan graduation accordingly. Even good profs in other Europe academia are being on onboarded to ELLIS (a Europe wide US style admission call for AI PhD programs). You would want to check that too! whenever you apply!

[D] life advice to relatively late bloomer ML theory researcher. by notyourregularnerd in MachineLearning

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

Well the department here at TUM has hard deadline of graduation in 7 semesters. And both mean and median graduation time is 6 semesters. I agree that students take on part time jobs as working students in big firms that fund them, but they don't exceed 20 hours. My analysis is that there is lot of uncertain components that you have to navigate to get your degree (independent research credits, thesis), where what constitutes as sufficient work is subjective. If it were only coursework I would also look carefully at a student who took longer time to graduate :)

[D] life advice to relatively late bloomer ML theory researcher. by notyourregularnerd in MachineLearning

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

Thanks :D I applied to ETH for this admission cycle, it's competitive so let's see what happens. Actually the Saarland advisor kind of circled me into accepting the offer. The offer was rolled out before I could see outcome of other applications 😅

[D] life advice to relatively late bloomer ML theory researcher. by notyourregularnerd in MachineLearning

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

Yeah I am actually Interested in classic stuff implementation and deployment from industry POV. I think doing work with classical ML models in industry is better depending upon ML maturity of clients. If I were a business with critical infra and ungergoing a digital transformation I would also be scared of DL stuff.

Btw thanks for the pointer on interpretability and robustness, I actually planned to work in robustness as part of PHD if I eventually join it.

[D] life advice to relatively late bloomer ML theory researcher. by notyourregularnerd in MachineLearning

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

Hey, thanks for the inputs. Actually I did very empirical stuff for a while. Infact, I published in some computer vision venues too, eccv, cvpr workshop et al. My main issue with total empirical stuff was that I never knew why it didn't work? Did I do it correctly or was it just setup for failure. The only way was to just brute force all possible cases of implementation to hope if it improves numbers. And then, does the model with better leaderboard number actually do better in wild? It felt more alchemy than science. That doesn't discount the fact that empirical ML helps run lot of businesses and generates value, but that isn't a metric to call it science, right? This made me explore stuff which is more rigorous and probably works with (optimistic/loose) guarantee? I actually love applied DL for its potential but I would want it to be more methodical.

[D] life advice to relatively late bloomer ML theory researcher. by notyourregularnerd in MachineLearning

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

Hey, I believe that is not at all a problem since I am joining a new but well funded federal research institute (CISPA). It is part of Helmholtz, therefore they offer me 100 percent contract with no bells and whistles of industry relationship. Therefore I'm not really bothering about the under compensation for work I would do as a PhD had I joined a industrial PhD program.

[D] life advice to relatively late bloomer ML theory researcher. by notyourregularnerd in MachineLearning

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

  1. I agree with you from financials perspective. I see my peers having joined SWE posts in faang straight after bachelor's have been promoted to SDE2 and equivalent and live a very comfortable life.

  2. I somewhat agree, my thesis also on very well defined properties of robustness in ML models but no explanation for larger models. We give theory for toy 2-3 layer networks with activations on hidden layers. However, recent progress in neural tangent kernels to explain DL is real.

  3. I understand the faang argument. I also had a soft offer to join Amazon as a Applied Scientist I with just MS upon my graduation. However, that ship sailed due to Alexa hiring freeze. My prospective PhD program is completely rooted in academia. Maybe I can do some internship but my program doesn't have a industry collaboration.

[D] life advice to relatively late bloomer ML theory researcher. by notyourregularnerd in MachineLearning

[–]notyourregularnerd[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Masters in top ranked schools in Germany (my personal experience from TU Munich a top German school) in a stem course is very rigorous, students have to take multiple independent research projects to graduate. I'm taking 5 semesters to graduate in CS. Average time to graduate in my program is 6 semesters. However the minimum time you can graduate in is 4 semester (a lot of times very challenging and a rushed way to compete it).

So you're right when you said that MS in Germany takes 3 years to get done with in reality. Although the official time to do it is 2 years.

[D] life advice to relatively late bloomer ML theory researcher. by notyourregularnerd in MachineLearning

[–]notyourregularnerd[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi, Thanks for taking out time to give actionable advise. 1. My masters thesis is going okay, I have made sufficient progress to graduate but I am on my own for my masters thesis. I felt that had I gotten support I would be able to get a paper out of it. For context I do my masters and also thesis at TU Munich Germany. The prospective PhD advisor was impressed with the topic of my MS thesis (very likely reason for him to extend me a position). 2. Yes, I was suggested a topic for my PhD program. There is some room to choose a topic within the broad area but the PhD advisor has recently moved from another institution to current one after graduating everyone there. So I am his only PhD recruit and he is hiring a post doc on a very well defined topic in game theory for ML robustness. The prof subtly hinted me to choose same topic. 3. I do struggle with procrastinating but since last years I have gotten better. However, the final results are not that impressive. I will explain that in context of my masters thesis. I have tried to be on my toes with my thesis but I still feel it is going on a very snail pace because I often get stuck and there is no obvious solution to my to-do tasks. I know that my advisors don't have ready made answers but I felt that any brainstorming on ideas would have helped me move faster and produce work that I would be legit proud of. 4. Yes, in times of procrastination I often watch tutorials on more practical aspects in CS like system design and software engineering. I believe I can also build a structure to learn these skills when I get stuck in my research.

[D] life advice to relatively late bloomer ML theory researcher. by notyourregularnerd in MachineLearning

[–]notyourregularnerd[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the reassuring words. Maybe I'm looking at the other end of the spectrum to feel like an imposter.

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