A Google Brain engineer’s guide to entering AI

Re:A Google Brain engineer’s guide to entering AI by Ftuuky on Saturday November 10, 2018 @02:46PM (#18423109)

The bank where I work needs so many data scientists and AI/ML/DL engineers and they can't find enough of them to the point they're paying master degrees and MOOCs to all employees that want to study it, as long as they already have some experience with Python/R or a background in math/stats/engineering.

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Re:A Google Brain engineer’s guide to entering AI by leesec on Saturday November 10, 2018 @03:05PM (#18423206)

Cough. What company is this? I was looking into getting my Masters but would be much nicer if somebody was paying for it.

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Re:A Google Brain engineer’s guide to entering AI by Ftuuky on Saturday November 10, 2018 @03:54PM (#18423445)

One of the top 20 investment banks.

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Re:A Google Brain engineer’s guide to entering AI by throwawaymath on Saturday November 10, 2018 @06:11PM (#18424025)

I know you probably mean well and maybe want to stay anonymous, but it seems pretty clear to me that commenter was looking for a specific firm in response to their question. Is it the case that all of the top 20 IBs are offering tuition reimbursement for data science?

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Re:A Google Brain engineer’s guide to entering AI by Ftuuky on Saturday November 10, 2018 @07:33PM (#18424340)

I understand the commenter wanted a clear answer but I don't know if I should be specific since I can't find a public source to go along. Maybe this is internal and I fd up?

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Re:A Google Brain engineer’s guide to entering AI by softawre on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @12:02PM (#18442545)

Just so you know its very easy to find out where you work. I can get your name from your keybase links, easily find your linkedin page, and verify your location to be sure from other links on keybase.

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Re:A Google Brain engineer’s guide to entering AI by leesec on Saturday November 10, 2018 @11:09PM (#18424990)

I understood your answer and thought it was fine.

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Re:A Google Brain engineer’s guide to entering AI by yters on Saturday November 10, 2018 @03:08PM (#18423221)

PhD in Computer Engineering with MSc in AI/ML here. Happy to do remote work for your bank :)

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Re:A Google Brain engineer’s guide to entering AI by Ftuuky on Saturday November 10, 2018 @03:52PM (#18423434)

Working remote is not allowed due to certain regulations. That's why it's so hard to hire good data scientists!

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Re:A Google Brain engineer’s guide to entering AI by irregular-john on Saturday November 10, 2018 @05:21PM (#18423844)

And you're in top-20 I-banking? So most likely in a huge city, with a huge swath of data science talent. The issue isn't folks not being able to work remotely.

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Re:A Google Brain engineer’s guide to entering AI by Ftuuky on Saturday November 10, 2018 @07:31PM (#18424333)

The thing is that data scientists are wanted by so many companies that besides salary you have to compete with perks and other things. IBs can't provide some of the perks, like remote work and makes it less attractive to potential candidates. This is my opinion, not my employer.

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Re:A Google Brain engineer’s guide to entering AI by bitL on Saturday November 10, 2018 @03:42PM (#18423390)

A very recent M.S. from a top 10 school in ML/DL here. Can chime in remotely as well. Need a new Lamborghini; Murcielago is getting old you know ;-)

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