學習動力與方向 (2/2)

如同如何準備研究所中所言，不一定要念研究所。在網路時代，知識的取得已經非常方便，例如 edX 或 Coursera，所以大學部的基礎知識和自學的動力很重要 (1)。以 The Analytics Edge 而言，是 MIT 商業分析 (Business Analytics) 碩士的必修課，該碩士學費一年七萬美金，所以此線上免費課程價值一萬美金。

Software Engineering at Google

Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright, Software Engineering at Google, O'Reilly Media, March 2020. (Read online)

The Software Engineering at Google book (“SWE Book”) is not about programming, per se, but about the engineering practices utilized at Google to make their codebase sustainable and healthy. (These practices are paramount for common infrastructural code such as Abseil.)

Yoshua Bengio joins Host Pieter Abbeel

The Robot Brains Podcast, S3 E1 Yoshua Bengio joins Host Pieter Abbeel: LLMs, Cognition, Causality, Responsible AI, Creativity

01:17:50 - brain is more creative when walking

2022 Franz Edelman Award

 2022 Edelman Competition (videos)

Leonardo J. Basso et al., Analytics Saves Lives During the COVID-19 Crisis in Chile, INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, 2023, 53(1):9-31. (2022 Franz Edelman Award) (statistical analysis, integer programming, regression)

During the COVID-19 crisis, the Chilean Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Sciences, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation partnered with the Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería (ISCI) and the telecommunications company ENTEL, to develop innovative methodologies and tools that placed operations research (OR) and analytics at the forefront of the battle against the pandemic. These innovations have been used in key decision aspects that helped shape a comprehensive strategy against the virus, including tools that (1) provided data on the actual effects of lockdowns in different municipalities and over time; (2) helped allocate limited intensive care unit (ICU) capacity; (3) significantly increased the testing capacity and provided on-the-ground strategies for active screening of asymptomatic cases; and (4) implemented a nationwide serology surveillance program that significantly influenced Chile’s decisions regarding vaccine booster doses and that also provided information of global relevance. Significant challenges during the execution of the project included the coordination of large teams of engineers, data scientists, and healthcare professionals in the field; the effective communication of information to the population; and the handling and use of sensitive data. The initiatives generated significant press coverage and, by providing scientific evidence supporting the decision making behind the Chilean strategy to address the pandemic, they helped provide transparency and objectivity to decision makers and the general population. According to highly conservative estimates, the number of lives saved by all the initiatives combined is close to 3,000, equivalent to more than 5% of the total death toll in Chile associated with the pandemic until January 2022. The saved resources associated with testing, ICU beds, and working days amount to more than 300 million USD.

AI 溝通師

邱韞蓁編譯，不寫程式，也能拿千萬年薪！AI大浪催生新職業「AI溝通師」，商周頭條，2023.03.03 

1. AI 大戰鳴槍，催生熱門職業：「AI 溝通師 (prompt engineer)」。由 OpenAI 前員工創立的新創公司 Anthropic，不要求應徵者有電腦科學學位，還開出上看33萬美元 (折合新台幣約1010萬) 的高薪。
2. AI 溝通師不僅要具備機器學習、自然語言處理等技術面硬實力，創造力、清楚表達、合作等軟實力也不可少。他們負責創造或改善輸入給 AI 的指令 (prompt)，讓結果更好。
3. 除了科技業，連醫療、法律、遊戲業都開始徵才！對於一般人而言，也能到 PromptBase、Fiverr 等線上平台，花2美元購買 AI 指令集。