[HN Gopher] The open source learning curve for AI researchers ___________________________________________________________________ The open source learning curve for AI researchers Author : bobvanluijt Score : 28 points Date : 2023-07-19 21:43 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.supervised.news) (TXT) w3m dump (www.supervised.news) | ShamelessC wrote: | tl;dr - AI researchers have never had to undergo code review, | deal with continuous integration, or manage expectations of | inexperienced users of their software. | | Which is just far too true, and remains true outside of VC-backed | scenarios like huggingface, but only because their playbook | explicitly optimizes for this. | | On the other hand, it's a great time to be a seasoned software | engineer who can help with these sorts of issues. If you're | trying to level up your machine learning experience - consider a | strategy like this: | | Pick a random lucidrains repository. Try to get it running on | your setup. It probably won't. (No offense Phil! You're doing | God's work and can't cover every possible configuration). Fix the | issue. Write a test for it. Setup basic CI for the test. Try to | get the PR merged! | charcircuit wrote: | That doesn't sound like gaining machine learning experience. It | sounds like you are just doing free infrastructure related work | for someone else. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-07-19 23:00 UTC)