Since when? It was always a very popular choice for those truly interested in HPC and ML.

I think the issue is there are a lot of people in the industry who actually don't care about the products they're building.

If you're working on building something you like, it'll always be fun and worth it.

> it was not harder than any other top or mid-tier software company

What the hell is a "top" or "mid-tier" company.

The kind of person who thinks like this is never going to make good money in this industry.

If you are truly valuable, you will get a Google level salary anywhere.

> The reason NVidia is in the position it is, is more due to the work of OpenAI, which of course builds on the entire community's effort

They've been working on this problem for decades. Back when NLP was almost dead and Precision Medicine was a pipe dream, it was Nvidia that was helping maintain the ecosystem.

> And yes, I'll admit I'm jealous

You definetly are, but you also don't seem to have the right mentality for this industry.

Being a generalist is useless. Being a domain expert the right application of technology in a specific industry is what gets you the big bucks.

I don't need a sklearn script kiddie - I need an sklearn script kiddie who also knows how to apply ML to my specific business domain.