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I'm building up a small but resourceful artificial intelligence research group focusing on specializing in the triangle "machine learning - search - natural lan

by jll29 2y ago

I'm building up a small but resourceful artificial intelligence research group focusing on specializing in the triangle "machine learning - search - natural language processing". Have got a bit of funding, a building, an 1.3 M€ GPU cluster. Also looking for Ph.D. candidates and contract developers. (The hard part is spending the money wisely but in 8 weeks - it is a time-limited government budget that "expires" - while teaching writing papers and writing grant applications.)

bbor 2y ago
Wow, just had to comment because this one is hilarious. Everyone else has the typical "I built my own accounting CLI" or "I'm thinking about maybe publishing my devtool", and you're over here casually describing your building. I just have to say: well done, that sounds like quite the life! The world will no doubt appreciate your toil one day, even if you feel stressed in the short term. IDK why, but your comment makes me want to share one of my favorite quotes: Only with time will the period of my real influence begin and I trust that it will be a long one, for I am firmly convinced of Seneca's promise: "Although envy imposed silence on all who lived with you, those men will come who will judge without ill-will and without favour." - Schopenhauer's Doctoral Dissertation, The Fourfold Root I'd throw my hat in the ring as a philosophy-minded SWE who's coming up on the end of my runway while writing my book on unifying symbolic+connectionist AI (going for ~1y now), but your choice of currency tells me you probably don't have a need for any of us yanks. Instead, I'll send you my very strongest best wishes from across the ocean! And while I'm at it, I'll endorse my absolute favorite paper ever written on search, in case it sparks some ideas: Simon & Newell's Human Problem Solving (1970) https://github.com/vlall/Ai-Papers/blob/master/1971_Human%20Problem%20Solving_Simon%20and%20Newell.pdf https://github.com/vlall/Ai-Papers/blob/master/1971_Human%20... . If you're not already teaching it, ofc ;) This quote in particular pops into my head at least once a day: The problem solver's search for a solution is an odyssey through the problem space, from one knowledge state to another, until his current knowledge state includes the problem solution.
bilsbie 2y ago
Can you explain this a bit more. What’s the triangle? What type of contractors are you looking for?
- theGnuMe 2y ago
  The conjoined triangles of success
Amir6 2y ago
What’s the best way to contact you to refer potential PhD candidates?

by jll29 2y ago

bbor 2y ago

Wow, just had to comment because this one is hilarious. Everyone else has the typical "I built my own accounting CLI" or "I'm thinking about maybe publishing my devtool", and you're over here casually describing your building. I just have to say: well done, that sounds like quite the life! The world will no doubt appreciate your toil one day, even if you feel stressed in the short term. IDK why, but your comment makes me want to share one of my favorite quotes: Only with time will the period of my real influence begin and I trust that it will be a long one, for I am firmly convinced of Seneca's promise: "Although envy imposed silence on all who lived with you, those men will come who will judge without ill-will and without favour." - Schopenhauer's Doctoral Dissertation, The Fourfold Root I'd throw my hat in the ring as a philosophy-minded SWE who's coming up on the end of my runway while writing my book on unifying symbolic+connectionist AI (going for ~1y now), but your choice of currency tells me you probably don't have a need for any of us yanks. Instead, I'll send you my very strongest best wishes from across the ocean! And while I'm at it, I'll endorse my absolute favorite paper ever written on search, in case it sparks some ideas: Simon & Newell's Human Problem Solving (1970) https://github.com/vlall/Ai-Papers/blob/master/1971_Human%20Problem%20Solving_Simon%20and%20Newell.pdf https://github.com/vlall/Ai-Papers/blob/master/1971_Human%20... . If you're not already teaching it, ofc ;) This quote in particular pops into my head at least once a day: The problem solver's search for a solution is an odyssey through the problem space, from one knowledge state to another, until his current knowledge state includes the problem solution.

bilsbie 2y ago

Can you explain this a bit more. What’s the triangle? What type of contractors are you looking for?

theGnuMe 2y ago
The conjoined triangles of success

Amir6 2y ago

What’s the best way to contact you to refer potential PhD candidates?