Jun 23, 2022Lessons learned from a PhD in Machine LearningPart 3: How to get done — This is Part 3 in the series. You can find Part 1 here and Part 2 here. Finishing your PhD After a lot of research and hopefully some papers and conferences, it will eventually be time to finish your PhD. This can be really stressful, but it doesn’t have to be. To ensure…Ph D5 min readPh D5 min read
Jun 23, 2022Lessons learned from a PhD in Machine LearningPart 2: How to get through — This is Part 2 in the series. You can find Part 1 here and Part 3 here. Doing research After having chosen a research topic and reviewed the literature, you are hopefully excited now to do your own research! Assuming that you have brainstormed some ideas to start with (either alone or…Ph D27 min readPh D27 min read
Jun 23, 2022Lessons learned from a PhD in Machine LearningPart 1: How to get in — This is Part 1 in the series. You can find Part 2 here and Part 3 here. At the time of this writing, I have recently finished my PhD in machine learning at ETH Zürich. In retrospect, I have the subjective feeling that I’ve learned a thing or two over…Ph D9 min readPh D9 min read
Published in Heartbeat·Jul 5, 2018The Mobile Neural Network LotteryHow to Find Your Winning Ticket — Note: The original research report on which this post is based can be found here Introduction If you’re one of those people with a large number of GPU compute nodes in your basement, or if you work for Google, training neural networks in a short time for challenging tasks is probably…Neural Networks7 min readNeural Networks7 min read
Published in Becoming Human: Artificial Intelligence Magazine·Jun 27, 2018Has computationalism failed?About the strengths and weaknesses of different models of the mind — I recently attended a reading by Siri Hustvedt, where she was talking about her latest book “The Delusions of Certainty”. Siri seems to be a very smart lady with many interesting ideas, for instance regarding the role of the Placebo effect in our health care system. However, she made one…Neuroscience7 min readNeuroscience7 min read
Published in Becoming Human: Artificial Intelligence Magazine·Nov 19, 2017Representation learning and languageCan machines develop their own language? — Despite the title, this post is not about doing natural language processing using deep models. This topic has been discussed in depth by many smart people (e.g. Sebastian Ruder) and is rather application-oriented. Conversely, we are going to take a more philosophical look at deep learning, and particularly deep generative…Machine Learning7 min readMachine Learning7 min read
