>>> We do a journal series at work. Rule is every engineer has to do one before we get to do another one. Gives presenting skills and forces us to hear new stuff since we all have different preferences.

Is it "open source" for anyone to access? I think such blogs are an excellent advertisements for the companies

>>> Big issue is that recently many of the coolest advancements have been by Facebook, openai...

I've noticed that trend too, it's disappointing, especially when considering that most of these companies' AI teams were built on published papers and open-source stuff

>>> I also read any papers that make the top of this sub, and I’ll usually read a couple of the best performing papers from the big conferences

I've been doing that too and tbh. I like to take my time and read papers thoroughly doing that for each paper that reaches the top of this sub is pretty time-consuming, but overall this sub is an amazing resource to start.

thanks !!