Senior ML researchers: no superpowers, just hundreds of bad conference coffees
ZeeshanZiaML · x · 2026-11-11
Hilde Kuehne jokes that junior researchers assume senior academics have superpowers, when really it's just a community of like-minded friends formed over years and hundreds of bad conference coffees. Zeeshan Zia replies that excessive reverence for seniors won't get young researchers far.
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