If DeepMind or Anthropic is doing your exact research topic, do you still continue? [D]

Summary

As someone who is not affiliated with any of the big tech companies, I find it particularly difficult to have the confidence or enthusiasm to approach any ML problem with an attitude that my professors probably had at my stage in life. I'm sure I am not the only one having the following thoughts: "My research is currently being done better at companies." "ML problem I set out to solve is already solved and in fact turned into products and sold for millions at companies X, Y, Z

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• ECCV travel support program [D]
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• I built a open source neural network shape validator [P]
• If your GPU can run inference, it should be able to fine-tune too. [P]
• We'll benchmark an Open weights LLM on any GPU you choose — drop your model + hardware and we'll run it. [D]