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Sidenote: On the list of contributors I noticed there are Research Engineers and Research Scientists. What is the difference between the two?

• jhurliman 10y ago
  Research engineers turn theory, pseudocode, or smaller proof of concepts into a more fleshed out implementation. Once a research project exceeds a few thousand lines of code it becomes useful to have dedicated engineers doing architectural design, owning unit testing / backtesting frameworks, code quality control, etc. Source: was a research engineer at Intel Labs several years ago.
  • taeric 10y ago
    While this is true, it is also sometimes merely based on your degree. I was a "Research Engineer" doing the same work as "Research Scientists" because my degree was in "Computer Engineering" not "Computer Science." So, YMMV.
  • yigitdemirag 10y ago
    (Another one) For DeepMind case, in order to be Research Scientists you have to have or about to have a PhD degree.