You asked, I deliver (2 weeks late).
A blogpost about what I did over the last 18 months to sign as a research engineer at a foundation model lab.
Link and summary below
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> friend of a friend
> didn’t get a MIT exchange via his German Uni
> booked 1 way ticket to Boston
> knocked on doors til he got a random prof to sign off
> stayed there
> was literally a visiting researcher in undergrad
You can literally just do things
become a self-taught ml engineer
i published this blog yesterday, a year ago -- 8.9k reads to date.
i'm pretty excited that my alma mater invited me to give a talk on this tomorrow
(link to blog in comments)
I had a couple of people in my DM's asking for advice on how to become a ML Engineer.
My answer has been more or less the same each time.
So i put in some effort, did a proper write-up on my blog, and links to some great actionable resources
Link below & in bio
Credentialism and it’s consequences habe been a disaster for the human race.
The main thing i learned at Berkeley is that there is no hidden knowledge
You can, in principle, learn anything from books/the internet at home
Yes, he flew there and went to classes for two weeks and then went to the professors asking if they were interested in him as a visiting researcher and that he flew there on a one way ticket because that was his dream.
fellow ML grinders & anime pfp's
quote below reminded me of a great free ML resource on arXiv
"A high-bias, low-variance intro to ML"
Covers a lot of ground in only 100ish pages and is useful for anyone with some mathematical aptitude
great resource to get started, and to
That was in 2017. I suppose he had a return flight he didn't took. The point is, he went there without any commitment from a prof, knowing it would be more likely to get one when you meet them in person.
Once you have the letter from the prof, it's fairly easy to get a J1.
