Episode 14

Yannic Kilcher: Explaining Papers on Youtube, Why Peer Review is Broken, and the Future of the Field

Yannic Kilcher is PhD candidate at ETH Zurich researching deep learning, structured learning, and optimization for large and high-dimensional data. He produces videos on his enormously popular Youtube channel breaking down recent ML papers.

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Timestamps:

02:40 Yannic Kilcher

07:05 Research for his PhD thesis and plans for the future

12:05 How he produces videos for his enormously popular Youtube channel

21:50 Yannic's research process: choosing what to read and how he reads for understanding

27:30 Why ML conference peer review is broken and what a better solution looks like

45:20 On the field's obsession with state of the art

48:30 Is deep learning is the future of AI? Is attention all you need?