Readit NewsAbout me: Doing NLP (research, then industry, then failed PhD attempt ~3yr, then industry) since 2015. Worked extensively with transformers (and RNNs, pre-transformers) including BERT* models, and thereafter with LLMs. Worked extensively on query generation from free text. Currently happily employed in Switzerland, but want to move to France to be with my SO.
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More than ever, it feels like America comprises two very different peoples.
Also, while there are a lot of people unhappy with your state, I wouldnt say the same for your citizens.
In 2017, a friend doing his PhD in artifical intelligence in Germany was made to undergo a thorough interview at the border to determine if he is a threat on account of his work. Again, this was absurd to say the least.
In this March, my SO (French) chose to not attend a tier 1 conference in AI where she was going to present her work. She, having the brains for both of us, was prescient enough to cancel her trip in Feb-March, a bit before the current border policies came into full force and europeans were detained.
I have never gone, nor will I ever go to the United States. Not for scientific purposes or leisure. For over a decade I have been voicing concerns about hosting conferences in a country which is inaccessible or hostile to a vast section of the scientific community. I am glad to see this shift.
But unions are ultimately a rich man's sport. They require funding and if they need to exert power they can only do so by withholding service. The poor are generally not in a position to act on either, especially the withholding of service. Unions embolden the rich, but can completely cripple the poor. So you find much less support when the money isn't there.
I would like to disagree. Unions are a tool for the poor, the people who don’t have a lot of rights, and protects them from the whim of the rich. If you are working a minimum wage job, and you are being made to work excessive hours, what is your recourse? What is your bargaining power?
Okay, one answer may be to quit and try somewhere else since there isn’t anything to lose here.
Well, I can tell you a very real scenario. My mother was working as a bank clerk in India. Has been her whole life. In the same bank (branches changed but she never changed the bank). When she was 50, there was a fraud. There was a transaction from a local businessman to someone, worth 3x her annual salary. She approved the txn. Once discovered, the businessman took the bank to court who in turn put the blame on my mom of will full ignorance. Businessman offered to settle out of court but we couldnt afford it, of course. At this point, the union came to mum’s help. They pressured upper management to get their house in order, not shift the blame to the tellers, and do not even think about firing her.
Anyone looking for work can probably empathize. All the other websites mentioned are distant runners up to that monstrosity.
When an innovative foreign company comes in that Facebook/Google/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon/etc can't buy, the government ends up killing it.
Optimistically, this will create an opportunity for a new business to come in and fill the void left by TikTok's departure. Realistically, that's going to all get gobbled up by a big tech company in the end.
Remote: Yes, preferred but open to hybrid/onsite.
Willing to relocate: Yes to France, Germany, Switzerland, Benelux
Technologies: Python, PyTorch, Transformers (HuggingFace), pandas, numpy, LangChain, LLAMA 2
Résumé/CV: https://priyansh.page/files/PriyanshTrivedi-CV.pdf
Email: mail@priyansh.page
I love tinkering with NLP and ML technologies, and good engineering practices. I'm driven, self motivated (cofounded my startup back in undergrad), and have a good research experience (10+ papers, over the years; 2.5 year PhD candidature). I'd love to make cool stuff using statistical decision making.