The Harsh Reality of Being an ML Researcher

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I love being a machine learning researcher but there are a few things no one tells you about the harsh reality of being an ML researcher, or even an engineer.
In this video, I will share some of these realities that you need to know before getting into machine learning, be it as a researcher or engineer.
Enjoy 💛
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================== Timestamps ================
00:00 - Intro
00:49 - Jobs and Requirements
04:34 - Coding Skills
06:48 - What does Research Involve?
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#ai #datascience #machinelearning

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  • @borismeinardus
    @borismeinardus4 ай бұрын

    🚀 There is so much more to explore in ML. Feel free to grab my FREE cheat sheet of different ML domains and open challenges: borismeinardus.substack.com/p/a-list-of-different-ml-domains

  • @iftekharuddin
    @iftekharuddin4 ай бұрын

    Great message. I think videos like these really help the community by giving important context and a reality check on a research career. I'd also love to know your thoughts or approach to navigating career choices, e.g., staying in academia vs working in an industry lab vs pure industry (applied).

  • @borismeinardus

    @borismeinardus

    4 ай бұрын

    Really glad you enjoyed it! In general, I think working in an industry lab is better than a university lab. You get more money, arguably work with smarter people, probably have access to more compute, and pretty much do the same work. How to pick what suits you best is of course not that simple to determine via a comment haha I will hopefully soon create a video exploring the different ML roles. It's a huge mess haha every company is using whatever title they think makes sense. It's easy to get confused.

  • @yahiarafik9965
    @yahiarafik996515 күн бұрын

    I came here from your video on explaining difference between different data jobs, very good content, looking forward where this journey takes us!

  • @AnweshaChowdhury-wr7tt
    @AnweshaChowdhury-wr7tt4 ай бұрын

    Thanks for making such videos on becoming a ml researcher. Your content has made me more passionate for ML research , particularly in deciphering and understanding research papers

  • @borismeinardus

    @borismeinardus

    4 ай бұрын

    🤩 Amazing!

  • @arjunragu995

    @arjunragu995

    2 ай бұрын

    Where do you find these papers?

  • @vipulsarode2722
    @vipulsarode27224 ай бұрын

    Hello Boris :) I know that I am not a research person but I am trying to be a ML Engineer. Your content helps a lot. Thanks!

  • @borismeinardus

    @borismeinardus

    4 ай бұрын

    Yeah, trying to find a good balance to help people who want to be an engineer as well as researchers. That said, I do believe that most things I say apply well to both paths ☺️

  • @arjunragu995
    @arjunragu9952 ай бұрын

    Thank You for these videos. They help me better understand what career path I want to take

  • @CodeBrewCS
    @CodeBrewCS18 күн бұрын

    Good video :) I'm currently finishing my bachelor in Comp Sci and am looking to get into ML ! So this video was helpful

  • @yasirdoulfikarjouhri9734
    @yasirdoulfikarjouhri97344 ай бұрын

    Best of luck my friend, the path sometimes is hard, but without the hardness we cant become great, again best of luck, and thanks for such useful content!

  • @borismeinardus

    @borismeinardus

    4 ай бұрын

    absolutely! well said 🫡 I am glad you liked the video ☺️

  • @shashankshekhar3562
    @shashankshekhar35624 ай бұрын

    Hey Boris, thanks for the video. I had a question regarding lateral transition to a researcher role. What do you think an experienced ML engineer(say 5 YOE) with a few average research paper and IPs in the field should do to be considered for a position of research scientist at these up and coming AI startups and established research labs in big tech companies?

  • @leokonto6860
    @leokonto68604 ай бұрын

    Amazing stuff bro!! Love the growth

  • @borismeinardus

    @borismeinardus

    4 ай бұрын

    💛💛💛

  • @yunleung2631
    @yunleung2631Ай бұрын

    So as someone who's getting a master's in AI... would you say that it's just simply easier for me to go for a software dev role post graduation, instead of trying to go for an applied scientist/ml engineer role?

  • @spirit1484
    @spirit14844 ай бұрын

    PLEASE MAKE THAT VIDEO ON HOW TO GET EQUIVALENT EXPERIENCE!!

  • @borismeinardus

    @borismeinardus

    4 ай бұрын

    I will do my best 🫡

  • @TechDevin
    @TechDevin4 ай бұрын

    Hey bro plzz make a video on ML syllabus and what we have to learn more for getting a ML engineer / researcher job

  • @RicardoGarcia-xu2cg
    @RicardoGarcia-xu2cg4 ай бұрын

    The past few days, I've been considering whether I should pursue a research career in ML. Your video gives me a new perspective on what to expect. Thank you a lot :)

  • @borismeinardus

    @borismeinardus

    4 ай бұрын

    I'm really happy that the video could help a bit with your decision making! I would still recommend to do some further research 😊 Best of luck and have fun!

  • @MaxMynter
    @MaxMynter3 ай бұрын

    As someone who decided against a PhD in favour of becoming a better software engineer after my masters, i'd be interested in your take on the Ph.D. vs. non-Ph.D. debate. Personally, I felt that writing production level code was more of a hurdle to me than the experiment driven development of ML models. So I thought I would learn more in the same time becoming an swe as opposed to researcher. Currently, I work as an SWE in MLOps and still think that (at least for industry) its more valuable to be able to train and deploy mediocre models than to come up awesome ones that you can't serve or even train because of skill gaps. Yet, who wants to build mediocre models, so the idea of still pursuing a PhD comes up every now and then. Time will tell :)

  • @arjunragu995
    @arjunragu9952 ай бұрын

    How do you get research experience if you don’t plan to pursue a PHD? Also what if you like to work on a wide set of problems rather than just one problem for a long time ?

  • @adityadesai3755
    @adityadesai37553 ай бұрын

    Hello brother, I will be starting my masters in data science in upcoming fall. I have already gained some skills through my projects but now I am deciding to delve completely into this field. Your videos have been and will be really helpful throughout this journey. thank you for indirectly encouraging me.

  • @borismeinardus

    @borismeinardus

    3 ай бұрын

    Wow, exciting!!! I‘m really happy that my videos could be somewhat useful ☺️ Happy learning 💛

  • @adityadesai3755

    @adityadesai3755

    3 ай бұрын

    @@borismeinardus yes brother.. want to keep in touch with you. Can I connect with you on insta and LinkedIn?

  • @sA-sz4sp
    @sA-sz4sp4 ай бұрын

    Bruv post more often your ML content ism elite and extremely insightful

  • @borismeinardus

    @borismeinardus

    4 ай бұрын

    haha thank you ☺️ doing my best to find the best balance between my job and posting videos. But I post more often is in my weekly newsletter :) perhaps that might be interesting to you ☺️ Thank you for your support 💛

  • @NeilMartin98
    @NeilMartin984 ай бұрын

    How have you found ML within academia? With code etc not being as neatly needed/presented for papers have you found a difference between academia and industry?

  • @borismeinardus

    @borismeinardus

    4 ай бұрын

    There are a lot of very poorly written repositories, but once you find one that is well written you can build on top of that very well. These good repositories are then again often from industry research divisions haha. E.g. I use Salesforce 'lavis' repository and can highly recommend it :)

  • @wahyumaulana7807
    @wahyumaulana78074 ай бұрын

    Hi, i'm really a beginner to ML, I want to start reading ML papers but I don't know where to start, could you give me some suggestions?

  • @saitulasikolapudi1122
    @saitulasikolapudi11222 ай бұрын

    Thank you for the video , could you please also make video on how to become Ml engineer at a top company without a Phd?

  • @TechDevin
    @TechDevin4 ай бұрын

    Can one do machine learning and take up a job in robotics also?

  • @elboudali_hamza
    @elboudali_hamzaАй бұрын

    Loving your videos! Would love to know how to get equivalent experience to a PhD in ML without doing a PhD. Thanks!

  • @i_youtube_
    @i_youtube_4 ай бұрын

    How to start as a researcher? What to learn? How to learn? How about coding and math? Many questions. Please post a video to answer us.

  • @borismeinardus

    @borismeinardus

    4 ай бұрын

    The beginning of pretty much always the same. Perhaps have a look at my how I would learn ML video. From there on you start to read more and more papers and start to think of how to write one yourself in a topic you find interesting :)

  • @sniper9961
    @sniper99613 ай бұрын

    How does a PhD in non machine learning degree sound like? I'm doing my PhD in Chemical engineering and it is a mix of experimental and modelling work. The modelling is mostly machine learning and CNN. Would my PhD be as good as someone who has a PhD in machine learning only?

  • @user-gb3lr2dd6g
    @user-gb3lr2dd6g4 ай бұрын

    Can u Please make a video on: "How to overcome PHD students being a Bachelor student at Big Tech FAANG companies".... btw Love to Watch your video.... you are doing great bro....🙂👍

  • @rishiroy2476
    @rishiroy24764 ай бұрын

    How to b a ML Researcher without a PHD in a Big tech? Is it even possible? How should I b developing my resume so that I can secure an ml Researcher position in MAANG? What should b my dos and don't? Can u plz make a video about ur opinion on this matter, whenever u have time. Have a nice day, Sir.

  • @borismeinardus

    @borismeinardus

    4 ай бұрын

    The short answer is: it is possible but it's hard and arguably messy. Either way, in general, you will have to spend at least the same amount of time on the right career path in industry to get a research role without a PHD, as if you would have spent on the straight forward path in a PhD. But I will think of a way how I can create a good video covering these questions :)

  • @amuga_1
    @amuga_14 ай бұрын

    Boris Meinardus 💙

  • @borismeinardus

    @borismeinardus

    4 ай бұрын

    💛

  • @mufaddalmakada2012
    @mufaddalmakada20124 ай бұрын

    Just want to say Hi. Watching your video

  • @borismeinardus

    @borismeinardus

    4 ай бұрын

    Hi 🤓

  • @josephmargaryan
    @josephmargaryan4 ай бұрын

    Sorry your paper didn't get released. What happens then? Are you then just on to the next one?

  • @borismeinardus

    @borismeinardus

    4 ай бұрын

    jup, we can simply resubmit the paper to the next conference :) or just go on to work on a new version of the paper oven even a completely new one

  • @ilyasdevs8523
    @ilyasdevs85232 ай бұрын

    HOw hard can it be for to become a ML researcher if i am from a 3rd world country

  • @waveril5167
    @waveril51674 ай бұрын

    Does it make sense to begin studying CS now?

  • @borismeinardus

    @borismeinardus

    4 ай бұрын

    It depends on your current situation and personality, but in general, absolutely :)

  • @user-kw5tb7ff7o
    @user-kw5tb7ff7o4 ай бұрын

    Boris bro! I’m working on my master thesis and I’m desperated. The topic: optimization of process parameter through machine learning Context: it’s a production line, with sensors. I will get the data and have to find the optimal parameter for the prudction line. Such as temperature, vacuum or the membrane. Which model would you use?

  • @Srinivas_Billa

    @Srinivas_Billa

    4 ай бұрын

    If it's just parameter optimisation, then try something like hyperopt first. You probably don't need ml/don't have enough training data.

  • @borismeinardus

    @borismeinardus

    4 ай бұрын

    I'm also not quite sure if ML is the right thing to use here. You would somehow need labels that represent good performance, which then means you don't need to solve the problem anymore. I would also say try out some sort of grid search and perhaps try to build some sort of simulation that predicts the performance given the set of parameters. For this you might use very simple ML to learn a model that maps the input parameters to a certain output metric you have the labels to.

  • @user-kw5tb7ff7o

    @user-kw5tb7ff7o

    4 ай бұрын

    He said each time a carbon product is finished they do a 3d Scan. In there they can see the results. Which one were good and which one are bad and have to be recycled or something like that. Maybe I can choose this as the Y variable somehow with the given input variables which I can edit?

  • @borismeinardus

    @borismeinardus

    4 ай бұрын

    should work as a regression based model. You just need to figure out how you can best select and represent the input features. But I think you won't need a really complex Neural Network for this. This project sounds to me like a more Data Sciencey project, where it is more about understanding the data rather than developing a complex NN (perhaps (probably) don't even need a NN here).

  • @user-kw5tb7ff7o

    @user-kw5tb7ff7o

    4 ай бұрын

    Hopefully, as I wanna successfully finish this off. I decided this topic in order to get into the programming world. So basically linear regression model, and checking out the correlation, to see which input data has an impact. Also do you know how I can basically take the 3d scans of each product with those parameters as the Y variable? The original idea was actually a close loop. So the system can regulate the parameter by itself.

  • @athul_sidiq
    @athul_sidiq4 ай бұрын

    🔥

  • @borismeinardus

    @borismeinardus

    4 ай бұрын

    🤗

  • @shobhitagnihotri416
    @shobhitagnihotri4164 ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤❤

  • @borismeinardus

    @borismeinardus

    4 ай бұрын

    💛

  • @Suman522i1
    @Suman522i14 ай бұрын

    Sounds cool to be ML Researcher

  • @borismeinardus

    @borismeinardus

    4 ай бұрын

    I love it ☺️

  • @coolmanspaceman2267
    @coolmanspaceman22674 ай бұрын

    Cool

  • @borismeinardus

    @borismeinardus

    4 ай бұрын

    cool indeed 🤓

  • @Bllackdog
    @Bllackdog4 ай бұрын

    Hey Boris, im curious! May I ask you to send me your rejected paper ?

  • @borismeinardus

    @borismeinardus

    4 ай бұрын

    Ah man, I knew this might come haha arxiv.org/abs/2311.16829 We submitted to like a B-Tier conference. Please don't judge last years Boris too harshly haha

  • @Bllackdog

    @Bllackdog

    4 ай бұрын

    @@borismeinardus Ahh don't act like that...I know you want it haha, nawh don't worry I would never judge because of such a research paper, since even not accepted it's a huge commitment. Thanks for sharing! im looking forward to read it and gain some new knowledge

  • @borismeinardus

    @borismeinardus

    4 ай бұрын

    haha give me 1-2 more months and I can show you a new paper that I am actually pretty happy with :)

  • @milkywaydev593

    @milkywaydev593

    4 ай бұрын

    Thank you@@borismeinardus

  • @samymmr8960
    @samymmr89604 ай бұрын

    first :]

  • @borismeinardus

    @borismeinardus

    4 ай бұрын

    💪🏻

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