[10:20:27] Hello wikimedia research team :) I applied to job posting 2267633 (Research Scientist (Disinformation)) few weeks ago and haven't heard back from HR team. Out of curiosity, have you already moved forward with someone? Have a great day and thank you!! [13:41:40] Francois is no longer signed in but I'll try to have someone respond directly to this message today (even if it's a "sorry but can't provide any information") [13:43:59] wanted to share a paper at upcoming RecSys conference that falls in with a growing line of research pointing out the inefficiencies and lack of improvement that come from using neural-network-based approaches over simpler baselines (the abstract summarizes the paper well even if you don't want to read the whole thing): Neural Collaborative Filtering vs. Matrix Factorization Revisited, by: Steffen Rendle, Walid Krichene, Li Zhang, [13:43:59] John Anderson (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.09683.pdf) [13:44:33] re growing line of research: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.07698.pdf and https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.01395.pdf and https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.06902.pdf and https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.01759.pdf [13:45:06] i personally use the fastText library quite a bit (the last paper) and have found it to be incredibly fast and effective for supervised classification tasks [14:27:37] Nice [14:52:27] isaacj I saw your comment to my question, thank you. No problem if it is not possible to answer my question. Have a nice day :) [17:52:58] Francois: did you ask a question about hiring earlier? (the id was different, double-checking.) [19:36:20] leila: hello, today is the first time I ask a question about hiring in this channel. [20:21:57] Francois: great. to answer your question: we still have the position open and are looking for new applications. In parallel, we have started reviewing the existing applications and have started the interview process with some of the applicants. If you have more specific questions, I suggest you reach out to our recruiting team. [21:22:28] leila: Thank you for the detailed answer. I haven't heard back from the recruiting team, hence can not contact them directly. [21:24:31] Francois: I'll message you privately.