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Re:A.I. researchers are making more than $1M, even at a nonp... by alphagrep12345 on Monday September 30, 2019 @12:18AM (#21111743)
Interesting that you mention about Andrej Karpathy. I've long wondered about his meteoric rise. No doubt he's intelligent, but there's definitely more to the story. What do you think it is? Is it majorly because of the right timing and being under the right profs? His blog? His class? I'm currently a grad student. So if I want to replicate even an iota of it, how do I do it?
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Re:A.I. researchers are making more than $1M, even at a nonp... by scottlegrand2 on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @11:07AM (#21137248)
I think the turning point for him was his excellent presentation in the first youtube broadcast of cs231. If I remember correctly he was getting seven-figure offers before he even graduated from Stanford. I do not know him personally and I doubt I will ever meet him but we did compete for the same position at Tesla and I lost to a very worthy opponent. my only regret is that the final interview would have been with Elon Musk himself and I would have loved to meet him.
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Re:A.I. researchers are making more than $1M, even at a nonp... by alphagrep12345 on Thursday October 03, 2019 @02:29PM (#21150298)
Oh wow, very interesting. Are you a PhD who works in this area too?
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