Denny Britz on Twitter: "Pay non-PhDs (PhDs already have these opportunities) to cover their living expenses and allow them to research anything they want under the conditions: 1. Limited usage of compute resources 2. No Deep Learning SOTA chasing 3. Everything must be open source with high code quality… https://t.co/Nz8yFbn9JZ"

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1. Sergey Kolesnikov‏ @Scitator Jan 25
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  where to sign up? :) Not sure if the academia would like to write high quality research code.
  
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1. Shital Shah‏ @sytelus Jan 26
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  Per the Bell Labs book I am reading there were unsung non-PhDs in every big breakthrough came out from there. Academic careers incentivize for publishing while non-PhDs nudges and opens door towards more deployable ideas. You need both ying and yang for big breakthroughs.
  
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1. Dominique Luna‏ @lunaticd Jan 26
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  Academia seems to be allergic to well documented, high quality code. The paper publish cycle doesn’t reward it. This would be interesting since the incentive system would different.
  
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1. Tim‏ @tymwol Jan 26
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  But with limited computational resources & without chasing SOTA, they wouldn't be able to publish it, or get re-tweeted, wouldn't they?
  
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1. Phúc Lê‏ @lkhphuc Jan 25
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  Just reply here in case that opportunity magically show up.
  
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1. RL is neat‏ @reinforcementl1 Jan 27
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  Not all PhDs have the freedom you described.
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1. Paul S. Conyngham‏ @paul_conyngham Jan 26
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  oh man, this would be amazing
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1. Andrey Kurenkov ‏ @andrey_kurenkov Jan 26
  Replying to @dennybritz
  
  But which non-PhDs :P A lot of signal to noise in applicants , as I'd guess organizer of AI Grant (and now @pioneerdotapp) @danielgross can attest to
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1. crashhacker‏ @crashhacker1 Jan 26
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  What a socialist/communist kind of thinking damn. Are you listening to yourself? Pay non PhDs? Yeah not everyone is equal. IQ wise and degree wise. That's a fact. But, you mentioned high quality code so if they can write high quality code then why not make it a PhD course?
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1. kelvindotchan‏ @kelvindotchan Jan 25
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  I think this could be a better idea than Universal Basic Income that let you see on your ass.
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