I'm really upset about this "use machine learning to judge women's outfits" thing today.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
Of all the innovation we are doing in ML, we're using so much of it just to sell more stuff.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
Data Science is a growing, high-paying field. And most data scientists are priced out of academia or pure research fields, so this happens.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
I think about this a lot. I dropped out of a PhD almost 10 years ago and have spent the last 6 managing data scientists. 1/x
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Replying to @taylorterry @EmilyGorcenski
The hiring pool is increasingly people who have completed technical PhDs and now really want to be in industry. I love being in industry 2/x
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Replying to @taylorterry @EmilyGorcenski
after many years in politics and I've seen a lot of PhDs thrive industry, but I still wonder why (or even if?) academia is going wrong. 3/3
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Replying to @taylorterry
Oh, I have some *opinions* on academia. I'll never set foot there again.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
Same. What happens during the PhD can suck too, but what I can't fathom is how we do a worse job getting 24 year olds to where they want to
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Replying to @taylorterry @EmilyGorcenski
be at 30 than 18 year olds where they want to be at 22 (and we ain't so great at the latter to start with).
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Because it's labor exploitation, plain and simple.
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