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MBA Manager Without Tech Experience Destroys Data Science Team
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I once worked at a startup where they decided to put a guy with an MBA in charge of the Data Science team. No tech experience whatsoever. The whole team fell apart not long after that. https://t.co/WINk6wkbsc
— Bojan Tunguz (@tunguz) 3 décembre 2023I once worked at a startup where they decided to put a guy with an MBA in charge of the Data Science team. No tech experience whatsoever. The whole team fell apart not long after that.
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Sundar Pichai Selected Over Demis Hassabis for Leadership Role
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BigLaw Salary Coordination Responds to Tech Wage Competition
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BigLaw cartel (I think that is a reasonably fair characterization for a group of nominally competing firms capable of synchronizing a salary schedule) updates monopsony to compete with tech/etc wages.
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HACK{H}ERS Hackathon: Women in Tech Learning Community Event
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If you're in the Bay Area, join us tomorrow at the HACK{H}ERS hackathon for a day of learning and community building with some of today's top womxn in tech. Apply to join here: https://
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Open Research in Industry Labs: Path to Academia
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The number of industry labs that practice open research and encourage scientists to publish can be counted on the finger of one hand (if that).
FAIR is famous for that.
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FAIR Researchers Career Transitions: Faculty Positions and Hirings
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I haven't kept a list.
it's quite a few, mostly in the last 2 or 3 years because FAIR is still young.
Also, many have done the opposite: quitting a tenure faculty position to come to FAIR.
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ML Researchers Transition from AT&T Industry to Academia
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Ok, here is a list of ML researchers from AT&T who moved academia: Michael Kearns, Dan Lee, Sebastian Seung, Fernando Pereira, Yoshua Bengio, Sara Solla, Rich Sutton, Satinder Singh, Peter Stone, Lawrence Saul, Rob Schapire,… and me. You can totally do it *if* you are in a lab
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Six months freelance Data Science: practical tips and insights
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6 months as a Data Science freelance – some tips https://
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Top FAIR Researchers Depart for AI2 and Academic Positions
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Ross Girschick (
@inkynumbers
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