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A PhD arguably gives you the opportunity to run very fast into one particular direction. Much longer than you would be allowed to run in any commercial setting.
by uniqueuid 4y ago
A PhD arguably gives you the opportunity to run very fast into one particular direction. Much longer than you would be allowed to run in any commercial setting.
Whether or not that is a good idea is an open question. Societies, institutions and supervisors clearly benefit from individuals taking this huge risk (and often failing).
One of the main problems is that we communicate very badly what a PhD is about.
- andreilys 4y agoA PhD arguably gives you the opportunity to run very fast into one particular direction. Much longer than you would be allowed to run in any commercial setting. It seems like most cutting edge research (and the ability to run fast) in machine learning is done in commercial settings these days, not academia.
- dotnet00 4y agoMost of that research is being done by people with PhDs though. Their ability to run fast in a PhD gave them the opportunity to be able to run fast in a commercial setting.
- whatever1 4y agoWhich is exactly why we made no progress in the theory of Machine Learning in the past decade. With massive industrial trial and error we identified things that work for specific cases, but we have no clue how to generalize.