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#47 - Catherine Olsson & Daniel Ziegler on the fast path into high-impact ML engineering roles

80,000 Hours Podcast

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Is It a Good Place to Start a PhD?

i think from my more pure soft engineering roll at open ai, that could have been a great jumping off point for a ph d. If i'd found a good menter at a university, that woud ave ben a fantastic way to move into a phd. So i don't think it's either or right now. But if you're at a place where you think the thing you really need is to work extensively under a an adviser or mentor whose research intuition is incredibly sharp, and to learn what they know about how to do research, then a ph d is a great place to do that. I'm defitly much more equipped now, h to go, to

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