Machine Learning got a bad reputation lately, but I decided something now:
I think that Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs, known for the deepfakes), is the coolest algorithm to come out of Computer Science in the last decades, maybe ever.
(This post has been made easy by the fact that I never studied Computer Science😅 )
@maltimore you're a PhD candidate studying machine learning, but never studied computer science? how's that work?
@maltimore so, physics?
@2ck hehe, there are definitely some physicists. But we're a big group. We have people who studied:
- computer science
- physics
- simulation / quantitative science
- mechanical engineering
- mathematics
- bioinformatics
- theoretical neuroscience
- mathematical finance
@2ck (and I forgot to say I'm one of the theoretical neuroscience ones)
@2ck in our faculty, every professor can choose freely who to hire for a PhD. There are no requirements. In practice my professor takes all kinds of people with a relatively strong applied math background.