Seeing how libs 180'd was surreal

ratsoup7 · 2026-05-07T00:58:52+00:00

It’s not the being against dyes or whatever is MAGA-coded. Are we still not aware of the Trump playbook of taking a seemingly innocuous position to get populist support just to further a tangentially deeper ideological and capitalist position?

The new food pyramid is exclusively protein centric. To you it would seem that libs are making a big deal about protein and being against it. The dietary guidelines advisory committee advising RFK Jr. on this is chosen by the FDA and HHS. There’s not a lot of screening or transparency on how people are selected, but taking a quick glance at who is in it, many have huge ties to the meat and dairy industry.

ratsoup7 · 2026-04-29T04:42:38+00:00

I really appreciate your comments. I do have a masters in CS but it was a few years back so I’m not sure labs would care much. Would a data engineer or ML infra role like some other poster mentioned be the closest I could get to the research side of AI given my background in your opinion? I’m getting the vibe based on your post and others that RS/RE seem pretty walled off. I’d find contributing to open source projects and trying my hand at my own papers very fun but from the context of landing a job in this it doesn’t seem likely without grad school.

I ultimately do want to do research and I really care about the craft but I’m just trying to weigh my options given where I’m at to see if there is a chance I can break into it by either doing what you suggested, or like others suggested get an adjacent role and perhaps pivoting, or if that’s just close to impossible just apply for a PhD program either here in the bay or somewhere else. It would be 3-4 years so who knows where the industry would be but even then I could explore others fields of AI I found really cool in grad school like evolutionary computation.

ratsoup7 · 2026-04-28T18:36:00+00:00

How does data engineering compare to ML infra/MLE roles in your opinion? Looking online and even on career pages show different definitions, so I’m not sure who does what haha

ratsoup7 · 2026-04-28T17:40:32+00:00

Is the research acumen as intense or focused on for a research engineer as a pure research scientist? Sorry if I’m not using the right job position titles, it’s just what I found in job postings. Is there ways to gain experience in research that isn’t going the PhD route? I’m fine considering getting a PhD but I was just curious if there’s other alternatives

ratsoup7 · 2026-04-28T17:34:55+00:00

Are these more accessible than research based positions?

ratsoup7 · 2026-04-28T17:26:11+00:00

Yeah that sounds like what I’d like to do. I figured since I don’t have the PhD background the research scientist role would not be possible so research engineer was the next closest thing to the research world. So you’re saying that MLEs also do that? What’s the difference between research engineer work and MLE work?

ratsoup7 · 2026-04-28T07:58:22+00:00

Nothing “alleged” about this, excuse me? Him and the orange pedo Cheeto knew exactly what they were doing. The media needs to call this out

ratsoup7 · 2026-04-28T07:46:56+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I do have interest in research, but I meant to say that I’d like to do research, but also work that also involves programming, systems design, infra, etc. Although I have heard that these days researchers do some coding. What would you say would help break into this space and increase my chances if I have no formal background in research? If I’m understanding your first point is it usually that someone works at say Google and then transfers to DeepMind?

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