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Dan Roy
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@Google DeepMind. On leave, Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Former Research Director, @VectorInst. Professor, @UofT (Statistics/CS). Views are my own.
- Someone's trying to scam my students into buying gift cards for "me". Unfortunately, they're too smart.
- When you finish a PhD in computer science, they take you to a special room and explain that you must never use recursion in real life. Its only purpose is to make programming hard for undergrads.When you finish a PhD in computer science, they take you to a special room and explain that you must never use recursion in real life. Its only purpose is to make programming hard for undergrads. ๐
- Dear International Students in the US, Does the US really deserve you?
- Deep learning.name one thing this country gave to the world
- Got promoted with tenure at University of Toronto :-) Thankful to my brilliant students, collaborators, and mentors. I can't think of a better place to have landed than Toronto. I took risks without existential fear and struck gold over and over with students in Stats and CS.
- Hey @karpathy. If you are interested in an change of scene and pace, weโre looking for someone to tutor our kids in Python on Thursdays 3:15-4:15pm.
- Feeling bad for my student who extended Shtarkovโs characterization of minimax rates to the adversarial setting, a problem open since early 2000s, andโdue to inexperienced reviewersโit got only a poster based on 8,6,6,4 reviews. Should we pull it and send to IEEE info theory?
- Maybe I am a physicist?
- Too close to home? Junior researcher: Iโm publishing papers at NeurIPS, my students are happy, but my chair says Iโm โnot impactful enough.โ I donโt know what that means. Senior researcher: What did you tell them you accomplished last year? Junior: 3 top-tier papers, a newJunior PM: I'm shipping everything on time, team loves me, but my manager says I'm "not strategic enough." I'm exhausted trying to figure out what that means. Senior PM: What did you tell him you accomplished last quarter? Junior PM: Delivered 5 features, reduced tech debt,
- I've not mentioned it yet on Twitter, but since my department announced it today, I'll do so too. I was promoted to Full Professor ๐ (effective July 2024, in fact). Those of you who are professors will know how critical mentors and students are to our success, and this is very
- Grad Students: Networking is critical for success in academia. But the real question is WHO to network with. Iโve known grad students who will spend time at conferences drinking artisanal kombucha with grad students from programs with no GPUs. Is that 1/
- This is how you generate unbounded amounts of wealth for you and cronies when you can manipulate the stock market at will.
- It's easy to reject papers. You can manufacture issues and sink them based on amorphous/vague notions such as novelty, impact, clarity, etc. Every paper has minor problems that you can amplify. It takes a lot more courage to argue to accept something.
