Ask HN: Possible to pivot into ML research career without a PhD?

Re:Ask HN: Possible to pivot into ML research career without... by ps901 on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @01:07PM (#29321025)

I'm currently in this position. I'm a non-PhD (junior) researcher for AI and ML in Germany. I would say at least 50% of my research coworkers "only" hold a Master's and no PhD. However, I'm currently a bit uncertain about the future of my work and career. I'm not sure whether I should strive to "more", i.e. pursuing a PhD, however, it sometimes feels like a dead end not to do.

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Re:Ask HN: Possible to pivot into ML research career without... by randomluck040 on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @06:05PM (#29324684)

Hey there, I’m in Germany too! What domain or area are you working in? Any chance that you have some experience with image segmentation?

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Re:Ask HN: Possible to pivot into ML research career without... by ps901 on Thursday November 25, 2021 @05:16AM (#29339976)

I'm working mostly on HCI (human-computer-interaction) related topics and natural language, so no experience on image segmentation.

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Re:Ask HN: Possible to pivot into ML research career without... by randomluck040 on Thursday November 25, 2021 @05:32AM (#29340064)

Thank you for answering. I‘m currently looking for something like a „sparring partner“ to talk about what they are doing as well as what I am doing since where I work no one does anything related to Deep Learning or Image Segmentation unfortunately. Wish you the best!

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