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Without submitting from a known university or research group? Seems unlikely to me. I have no doubt it can and has been done, but for it to be a regular thing such that one can recommend it in a 'Couch to 5k' style method? No way.

I have some friends in Oxford who are DPhil/Postdocs in highly reputable research departments specializing in ML and if they sometimes struggle to get more than a poster session at the leading conferences, with the addition of well known professors names attached, then there's just no way I can believe Joe Bloggs who just learnt python 12 months ago is able to do the same.

I almost want to follow his guide just to check.

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itsmefaz6y ago· 1 in thread

The idea is to choose conferences like InfoQ where application type research is accepted. Like Build-X-using-TensorFlow, it doesn't have to align with standard research which requires formal education.

One also needs to be skeptical while reading such a PR post and not get swayed away by the hero's journey in it.

exdsqOP6y ago

I was not aware of InfoQ - that looks pretty cool actually. But yes, this makes a lot more sense. Thanks.

anjc6y ago

You're correct, I'm sure it could happen, it is highly unlikely that a non-academic could get published even at workshops for low ranking conferences. In my experience it takes at least a year of guidance before the average PhD can be accepted to any conferences without supervision. If OP can do this alone then he's exceptional.

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