Mikio L. Braun

ML and AI expert

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Yeah, totally with you. Total intellectual freedom, yeah, if you can somehow get a tenured position and don‘t care that you have only 1 or 2 positions for Ph.D. students and everyone else thinks you shouldn‘t have been given tenure.
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@krishnanrohit The name of the game is getting in grant money and publishing and maybe some startups, and that means serving the topics the grant agencies prioritized, working your way up to influence these topics, marketing your work, building and steering communities, networking, etc.
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@krishnanrohit Totally something that could be very fun and ultimately prestigious, but it is more or less the opposite of „I can follow what I find interesting.“
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@krishnanrohit BTW, I think within academia, there are also rampant misconceptions about industry. „It‘s only about money“, „everything is super political“, „most of the work is super boring.“
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@krishnanrohit My experience was that it is about money, but money is a proxy for „something that actually makes sense to people so they are willing to pay for it.“ Political, yes, but academia is just as bad. And I found the work just as interesting, sometimes even more.
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