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0 pointsgodelski2y ago0 comments

Honestly, is there a big difference anymore? The vast majority of papers I read are either by industry directly or have industry as a partner (as an author, not just acknowledgements). There are of course some, and even plenty of examples, but it does seem industry partners is almost necessary these days. I'm not convinced that level of interaction is healthy, for either parties.

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aleph_minus_one2y ago· 2 in thread

> Honestly, is there a big difference anymore? The vast majority of papers I read are either by industry directly or have industry as a partner (as an author, not just acknowledgements).

Read more pure math papers, then you will see the difference. :-)

godelskiOP2y ago

I thought we were talking ML here. I mean you're not wrong (I do do this) but context. But in ML, well... I mean even Max Welling is connected with Microsoft.

aleph_minus_one2y ago

> I thought we were talking ML here.

This is no contradiction: there exist quite pure math papers whose content is very relevant for the mathematics behand ML algorithms. :-)

I do have the impression that the kind of research in ML that is not strongly associated with the recent "machine-learning industrial complex" by now tends to become published in another subject area.

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thrwayaistartup2y ago· 1 in thread

> Honestly, is there a big difference anymore?

Only a very small subset of industry cares about academic publishing, and even within that subset it's only a fraction of groups at a fraction of corps that consider publishing a primary or even secondary objective.

The groups that do care about those things can be good gigs, but are generally not the place in the company you want to be anyways, unless you can get in and out (for good) in <10 years. If you can do something that actually impacts the business -- that is actually useful to other humans -- no one gives a shit about h-indices or kaggle scores. And you'll be better compensated anyways.

godelskiOP2y ago

You're measuring the wrong direction. Don't measure what percentage of industry publishes with academics. Instead, measure what percent of academics __in ML__ publish with industry. This direction because one is much larger than the other. Second, I mean... I am a researcher... and I'm talking about the environment I'm working in. It sounds like you're outside this environment trying to educate me on it. Am I misunderstanding here?

> can do something that actually impacts the business -- that is actually useful to other humans

Do not confuse these two. That's incredibly naive.

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5 comments · 2 top-level

aleph_minus_one2y ago· 2 in thread

> Honestly, is there a big difference anymore? The vast majority of papers I read are either by industry directly or have industry as a partner (as an author, not just acknowledgements).

Read more pure math papers, then you will see the difference. :-)

godelskiOP2y ago

I thought we were talking ML here. I mean you're not wrong (I do do this) but context. But in ML, well... I mean even Max Welling is connected with Microsoft.

aleph_minus_one2y ago

> I thought we were talking ML here.

This is no contradiction: there exist quite pure math papers whose content is very relevant for the mathematics behand ML algorithms. :-)

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thrwayaistartup2y ago· 1 in thread

> Honestly, is there a big difference anymore?

godelskiOP2y ago

> can do something that actually impacts the business -- that is actually useful to other humans

Do not confuse these two. That's incredibly naive.

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