c) at least in NA, the more prestigious the school, the more student aid they give
@thegautamkamath
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Institutional Elitism in STEM Hiring Practices Remains Implicit
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Thanks for sharing your experience. This is quite surprising to me. In my corner of STEM, there is a huge amount of elitism around which institutions one attended. But this is a) usually implicit rather than explicit, b) would *never* be told to the candidate, and
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Top US Schools Now Offer 3-4K Monthly CS Stipends
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Many top US schools pay CS stipends of 3-4K per month now. Not lavish by any means. But perhaps enough to get by without taking another job or being independently wealthy? (I say this as someone with the privilege to not have had to worry about money in grad school)
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Music and AI: Researcher Demonstrates Creative AI Applications
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Fantastic "talk" by @pcastr at the @CIFAR_News #DLRL2024! In addition to being an excellent researcher, he's also a phenomenal musician. We asked him to present on music and AI and boy did he deliver. I expected some musical performance from him, I didn't expect to be part of it!
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Academic Jealousy: Navigating Colleague Success in Research
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Jealousy of (rather than happiness for) success of your friends and colleagues is such an annoying & difficult feeling. It comes up all the time as an academic: paper acceptances, awards, jobs. I even feel guilty on a W, since I know how friends might feel like it's their own L.
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Vitalik Buterin: From Waterloo CS to Ethereum Founder
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Vitalik Buterin was a standard Waterloo CS undergrad. Into math & CS. Did competitive programming (IOI bronze 2012). Did undergrad research with my colleague Ian Goldberg. Then he invented Ethereum in 2013, got the Thiel Fellowship & dropped out in 2014. And the rest is history
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Measuring Research Impact: Citations Beyond Self-Citations
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Yes, that's probably what it's measuring. It might be possible to measure ""impact"" by only counting citations from outside of the field (like excluding self citations).
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Citation Metrics Reveal AI Field Growth Through Major Conferences
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Check them out here: https://
scholar.google.com/citations?view
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… What does this mean? It means a lot of people have cited papers in these conferences, likely due to a lot of people writing papers in these conferences. That is, it mostly measures growth of the field. -
Top AI Conferences Rise in Google Scholar Metrics 2024
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Google Scholar Metrics for 2024 are released. CVPR (#2), NeurIPS (#7), and ICLR (#10) are in the top 10 (ranked by h5-index). Up from #4, #9, #10 last year.
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Data Poisoning Attacks Remain Effective Against Unlearning Methods
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We investigate the effect of: three types of data poisoning attacks (targeted, indiscriminate, and "Gaussian," which is new), across CNNs and LLMs, for seven different unlearning methods. None of these are effective at removing the effect of poisoning. 5/n