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		yawnxyz on March 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anyone else witnessing a panic inside NLP orgs of ... As much as I'd wish to say "you're wrong, people care about intelligent, passionate people who do great work, not PhDs" you're right about much of the work out there. We've tried many time to work with CSIRO (the NSF of Australia) and it's fallen flat. They love impressive resumes and nothing else. I'm having a chat with their "Director of ML" who's never heard of the words "word2vec" or "pytorch" before. (And I'm a UX designer!) I think at most corporate firms you'll end up running into more resume stuffers than people who actually know how to use ML tools.

diceduckmonk on March 17, 2023 [–]

> Director of ML" who's never heard of the words "word2vec" or "pytorch" before

Reminds me of Computer Security academic and professional pedigree where these people aren't even programmers

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