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I've been concentrating on developing my deep learning resume for the past couple of years, and have recently started to get promising interviews for deep learning R&D roles, specifically for self-driving cars.
It seems every company these days is scrambling to staff a new self-driving car division. The labor market demand is very stiff. Because of this, I almost feel embarrassed that I even considered getting a machine learning job at a hedge fund. The whole idea of using machine learning to try to predict the stock market seems asinine, in hindsight--especially considering the fundamental statistical in-feasibility of doing this.
Folks, we PhDs suffered greatly during the whole 2008-2015 social media bubble. The market had become a cesspool of apps, websites and trivialities. However, things are changing, and companies are starting to staff real R&D efforts again, and downsizing their "on demand petrol delivery app" efforts.
I feel we have reached an inflection point where many companies are now aggressively pursuing deep learning knowledge. Meanwhile, the hedge fund industry openly said at SALT that things are in a long term decline. There are simply too many hedge funds who can all download Torch or TensorFlow. I don't see how anybody can beat the market doing this.
It seems every company these days is scrambling to staff a new self-driving car division. The labor market demand is very stiff. Because of this, I almost feel embarrassed that I even considered getting a machine learning job at a hedge fund. The whole idea of using machine learning to try to predict the stock market seems asinine, in hindsight--especially considering the fundamental statistical in-feasibility of doing this.
Folks, we PhDs suffered greatly during the whole 2008-2015 social media bubble. The market had become a cesspool of apps, websites and trivialities. However, things are changing, and companies are starting to staff real R&D efforts again, and downsizing their "on demand petrol delivery app" efforts.
I feel we have reached an inflection point where many companies are now aggressively pursuing deep learning knowledge. Meanwhile, the hedge fund industry openly said at SALT that things are in a long term decline. There are simply too many hedge funds who can all download Torch or TensorFlow. I don't see how anybody can beat the market doing this.