There's a lot of neat libraries out there and papers to read. There's a lot of hero worship, and a lot of disparaging comments as well between here and the face

There's a lot of neat libraries out there and papers to read. There's a lot of hero worship, and a lot of disparaging comments as well between here and the facebook post but a year is a serious amount of time, and with a little dedication I'm sure he can expect to see some decent results out of his pet project. Similar to that hacker who built a "self driving car" in his garage, which, in the end, although not being a polished finished project did self drive a decent bit, I'm sure we can expect similar if not better results from Zuckerberg here. Anyone who's claiming differently may not have fooled around with some of the libraries out there (I built something for named entity recognition with Stanford's library in a few days once I found it), and might also be overlooking the fact that we're talking about a person with a serious resume of impressive accomplishments. I'm not sure how his Chinese is and to be fair I was a little less than impressed with the two books a month goal (I do that on the train it seems like anyways, but I don't have a huge company to be CEO of or a family to spend time with), but we are certainly talking about someone who qualified for entry into Harvard (based on merit I presume), and has the drive to sit down and create websites (one of which eventually ballooned into facebook, which he then steered through a public ipo). And let's be fair, getting started is generally the hardest part. I'd have to be hardpressed to discredit the guy, think ill of his challenge, or feel he couldn't accomplish much regardless of my personal feelings about his attitude and to that I say "Good on you Zuck! Here's to hoping I hear more about this interesting project you've got going." In the end, lord knows I always enjoy reading about cool projects.