Advice to NLP PhDs: Focus on Data, Evals, or RL Environments
gabriberton · x · 2026-08-20
Advice for NLP PhDs aiming to join frontier labs: focus on working with data, evaluations, or RL environments. These are the fields where academics can most easily make an impact, as most other topics require compute resources unavailable to most researchers.
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