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Oct 6, 2020

9 months after my ICLR spotlight award, as an Independent Researcher.

A real story of having succeeded, to then have promises broken and dreams crushed, and feeling sorry for yourself when others have it worse. — In December 2019, I got published at ICLR 2020 as an Independent Researcher and received a Spotlight award for my publication. The goal, to get enough recognition to become a Research Software Engineer at a known industrial research group. This publication went about as viral on Twitter as most researchers…

Machine Leraning

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9 months after my ICLR spotlight award, as an Independent Researcher.
9 months after my ICLR spotlight award, as an Independent Researcher.

Dec 29, 2019

Becoming an Independent Researcher and getting published in ICLR with spotlight

Why I became an Independent Researcher, why you should avoid it, and advice for those who make the difficult choice anyway. — In April 2019, I decided to become an independent researcher, to work on getting published at a major conference. Then in December 2019, after 7–8 months of work without funding, I did just that. I got published in ICLR; even better, I got a spotlight! After posting my publication on…

Academia

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Becoming an Independent Researcher and getting published in ICLR with spotlight
Becoming an Independent Researcher and getting published in ICLR with spotlight
Andreas Madsen

Andreas Madsen

Ph.D. Student at Mila, researching interpretability for Machine Learning because society needs it. Published in Distill, SEDL|NeurIPS, and ICLR (spotlight).

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