What's the place, if any, to post a job opening?

I’d mostly agree. I would like to add one additional point. If you can, a PhD can change the way one thinks. The idea of formulation of a question, creating a plan to test it, evaluation criteria to monitor and drawing conclusions is beneficial even beyond research. However, those benefits only materialise if one views it from that lens. You will think differently from your peers which can give you an edge in sports, management etc. The question then arises is 1) Is this something one desires? and 2) what effort are you willing to spend to achieve this desire? That’s a personal choice to make.

Yes of course. There are more than one ways to achieve an outcome. That said, the skills you want to learn from a PhD are best learnt from spending dedicated time in one. The quality will show. You can hack around it. However, very few people are able to sustain.

In any case, the question of - is this a relevant skill to earn more income - will always be a personal choice and question.

Typically, only in areas where PhD (ability to conduct independent research) skills are important. Otherwise, you might get a net lower value.

PhD is a double edged sword. What’s your aim? If your aim is income, you rather not do a PhD. A PhD degree is for you to “learn to learn” (conduct independent research). It’s a skill that could be valuable if you think broadly (even beyond ML). All other pursuits might be suited to industry applied science positions.

Better than following an anonymous comment on Reddit. I also read his papers. But, the off hand comment doesn’t deserve a literature survey of Schmidhuber’s research .

He can do both. He does have interesting publications.

• 2022 - 2x ICMLs, 1 x ICLR,
• 2021 - 2x NeurIps, 2x ICMLs, 5x ICLRs, 1 x AAAI

https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/onlinepub.html#secConferences

One thing I like about Schmidhuber's publications are that the authors are often in small groups 2 or 3.

> Doing research in NNs in the 90s was purely theoretical, and anything done then had 0 real-world application at-the-time.

Yet, Yann Le Cunn is cited for his work in the 90s too.

> Come work 6 months for free!

I don’t see that on the post. Is this mentioned in the form? It requires a Google sign in and I’m not doing that.

In any case, it’s a poor post because it doesn’t include job location and other details.

A basic course in statistics and the desire for the PhD grind.

> But theory people tend to complain that they often get anti-theory reviews.

How the turn tables! A couple of decades ago - the boot was on the other foot.

I don’t want to argue either. Probably, you need to be extremely specific about “provision of infrastructure” means ;)

> dstack focuses on provisioning infrastructure and environment in the cloud.

> See https://docs.dstack.ai/examples/artifacts/ and https://docs.dstack.ai/examples/deps/

DVC also does "provision infra and environment in the cloud" based on your examples. Again, a comparison to specific similarites and differences would be best.

See https://dvc.org/doc/user-guide/pipelines/defining-pipelines

Looks similar to DVC. A comparison to what is different from existing tools would be nice.