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Utter nonsense. A PhD signals two things: that a person has the same degree of mastery of core material as a person with a master's degree and that he or she ha
by sidlls 10y ago
Utter nonsense. A PhD signals two things: that a person has the same degree of mastery of core material as a person with a master's degree and that he or she has the determination to do additional original research sufficient to produce a 100 page paper.
It isn't required for any serious research effort, except by the accident of inertia. And it certainly isn't a necessary indicator of determination.
- tensor 10y agoYou seem to make extremely light of "doing original research" here. A PhD or equivalent is absolutely required to do serious research in the field. Sure, you can always get the depth of knowledge required without a formal program, but the reality is that few do. Most people just take Machine Learning 101 then think they are a domain expert. That said, there is definitely a place for non-PhD level ML practitioners. I don't think the industry has stabilized in this regard, but I can definitely see a "machine learning developer" type position becoming quite common. This is not the same as someone doing original research, but would definitely meet the needs of a great many business use cases.
- sidlls 10y agoI'm not taking it lightly at all, considering I've done it. I know exactly what it requires and what it signals.
- dang 10y ago> Utter nonsense. This counts as name-calling in the sense that the HN guidelines ask you not to do it: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Your comment would be much better without that bit. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13599533 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13599533 and marked it off-topic.