Senior AI researcher: no superpowers, just a community built over hundreds of bad conference coffees
HildeKuehne · x · 2026-11-11
Robot learning researcher Hilde Kuehne muses that young researchers assume seniors have crazy superpowers — but the truth is they simply built a great community of like-minded friends and colleagues over many years and hundreds of bad conference coffees.
A lighthearted take on how academic networks actually form: long-term community, not magic.
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