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Rookie EE grad Looking for an internship in the field of ML My coding is good especially on matlb and yes i do have ML basic knowledge; either its about theoretical or practical. I have implemented some basic models like KNN, linear and logistics regression, svm, neural network etc Lmk if you can help me.

I got my start doing research exactly like this. At the time I was looking to apply to grad schools, but had been working in industry for years without any formal ml training. I found a professor who posted about needing collaborators their first year and so I applied.

Turns out the letter of recommendation I received from him was pivotal to my acceptance by my current advisor, since it demonstrated recent research experience, despite having great industry letters of recommendation talking about my abilities as a lead engineer.

I'm sure anyone you collaborate with will be very appreciative of your efforts.

Or you could apply for some funding and pay them to come work in your lab ... That's also an option.

On the computation side, all of the benefits of cloud computing has made it super easy. The resources of stuff like colab, weights and biases, etc definitely mean you should not buy your own hardware. It's just way too expensive to maintain professionals to do that when all of the large players essentially act as a way to pool resources and have on demand compute. Compute is also just getting cheaper now that cryptocurrency is moving to proof of stake, and there's a lot of hardware looking for stuff to do. Of course you could try to build out your own computers and lab data center, now that it's probably cheap to but again, why go through the headache.

Hi, I also was considering in looking online collaborators (my Uni encourages this). I’m currently working on self-supervised learning and applications in medicine (sometimes in biology). I also have an unlimitted access to a couple of NViDIA A100 - so if this is the question of resources, then I might be of help regarding this and also collaborating on different ideas.

Sure, thanks for the suggestion. Writing proposals is like the #1 thing that takes my time these days. :D

However, based on the DMs I got, I would say I'm doing a fairly generous thing already by sharing my time. If there is money involved, I will have to scrutinize the CVs and pick the strongest ones.

People have very different priorities, I did meet students whose primary care is the payment (usually because of family factors), then I gave them my best wishes down the road since at this moment I cannot offer that.

Anyway, thanks for your suggestion.

> If there is money involved, I will have to scrutinize the CVs and pick the strongest ones.

Yes. Employment law tends to require that.

> I would say I'm doing a fairly generous thing already by sharing my time

Things said by every person who has ever offered an unpaid internship.

> I did meet students whose primary care is the payment (usually because of family factors)

Everyone has a right to be paid for their labour regardless of their circumstances. As an employer you wouldn't even get to ask them why they needed the money you were going to pay them. This is a layer of protection for employees enshrined in employment law. Everyone is entitled to privacy in their personal lives.

> I cannot offer that.

Then don't. But also with respect, don't find a loophole around it either. It is categorically the wrong thing to do.

It is entirely possible for a person to have good intentions and then do the wrong thing.