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csreid t1_irg0y7f wrote

Reply to comment by nullbyte420 in [D] Giving Up on Staying Up to Date and Splitting the Field by beezlebub33

I kinda get where OP is coming from, though. With all the pop-sci ML stuff and big press releases for popular consumption hitting really shortly after actual publication, there's always a risk that some manager will be like "hey I just read about stable diffusion on Twitter, can we use it to do this?" and then you're a deer in headlights bc you weren't at the press conference where they introduced it and you have no idea what the manager is even talking about.

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Ulfgardleo t1_irg3wty wrote

"This is a fairly new model and I do not know the details. If you seriously consider this, I can read up on the most recent work and then we have a meeting next week and discuss whether and how it could help us".

The awesome thing about solid basics is that you can do exactly this.

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csreid t1_irjtm3b wrote

But this bit:

>"This is a fairly new model and I do not know the details"

is hard! I understand having anxiety about being The ML Guy and not being able to immediately answer questions.

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Ulfgardleo t1_irm2bsq wrote

yes. I think at this point it is important to realize that in the exact moment you got hired by a company, your role changed.

You were the guy with a PhD straight from university who did top-notch research. Now, you are the guy hired to make this project work.

If your job description does not include "active research" or "follow the most recent advances in ML research" then it is not your job to know what is up - especially if it is an advancement in a subfield of ML your project is not actively interested in.

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