For sure. but I was recruited once by a Singapore university that was trying to sell the prospect of having many students. In my head I was like how is that a good thing From my observation many postdocs already go on a predatory hunt for having access to many grad students
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GDM Recruiting Exceptional Talent for AI Work
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That said, I may be looking for very exceptional people to work with me at GDM. The bar is very high but we will have lots of fun and work closely together. Send me something somewhere if you're interested.
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Career Ambitions: Avoiding Personal Projection in Professional Goals
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Something I've realized recently that oftentimes people love to project their career ambitions on other people. For example, some people may think building large teams or their own fancy research lab (e.g., academia) is the definition of a successful career. They then use this
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Will Academia Remain Relevant in Three Years?
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Hot take of the night that was discussed was whether academia will be relevant again in 3 years.
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PhD Career Advice: Strategic Authorship Positioning
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advice to the phd students: be the 3rd author.
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PhD Research on Attention Architecture and NLP Benchmarks
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This gave me a good chance to reflect on my phd years, it was a pretty fun time. I mostly did tons of architecture work, played around a lot on attention blocks, recurrence etc. Felt like a professional lego builder. I was playing on the SNLI, MNLI, Squad leaderboards etc,
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PhD Thesis Critique Using Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking
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Trying out this fun critique trend on my PhD thesis ("neural architectures for natural language understanding",) using gemini 2.0 flash thinking. It thinks most of my thesis is empirical and has no theoretical contribution (yes, true), no strong overarching narrative cohesion
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Google’s DSI Paper Research Misattributed to Meta
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Invented by google in our DSI paper but somehow featured as meta's research. Life can be funny
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Reka AI Co-founder Reflects on 1.5 Years Journey
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On the @RekaAILabs side, I am thankful that @DaniYogatama gave me the opportunity to experience life as a co-founder when he convinced me to join him 1.5 years ago. I also really enjoyed working with the cracked Reka team (many of them whom are still there), such as @artetxem