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Nathan Lambert
Personal blog · natolambert.com/writingaicareer
Nathan Lambert's personal blog at natolambert.com covers ai and career. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Job Hunt as a PhD in AI / ML / RL: How It Happens”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Nathan Lambert's posts on the AI research job market and on how to enter machine learning. The linked comments are bare references and do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Nathan Lambert is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Trillium Labs and a machine learning researcher working on open language models, RLHF, and post-training.
Most-linked posts?
- Job Hunt as a PhD in AI / ML / RL: How It Happens3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-07-07
- The last reliable path into AI research2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-30
What Hacker News says?
I can only talk from my own experience but there's other way than just straight up go to ML/DL and crank out new models. That way is to come from the application domain side. [0] For me that was robotics, with the motivation that traditional method felt like it wouldn't scale outside static environments so I started to look in to ML/DL (Deep Reinforcement Learning really) and from the looks of it I'm not alone. [0]…
Comment linking /writing/path-into-ai
on “Ask HN: In 2022, what is the proper way to get into machine/deep learning?”Submitted Job Hunt as a PhD in AI / ML / RL: How It Happens as a story · 18 points
HN discussionAuthor here, you can find more on my website: https://natolambert.com/cv Have been building RLHF systems at HuggingFace since ChatGPT, with some other experience before.
Comment linking /cv
on “The AI research job market shit show (and my experience)”Submitted Job Hunt as a PhD in AI / ML / RL: How It Happens as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debugging model-based reinforcement learning systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Language Models – Nathan Lambert as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Job Hunt as a PhD in AI / ML / RL: How It Happens as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The last reliable path into AI research as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the Importance of Hyperparameter Optimization for Model-Based RL as a story · 1 points
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