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karpathy, I see you are at Stanford for Deep learning and NLP... I'm working on a project for audio/sound classification and have been sniffing around for some

• IanCal 9y ago
  For some constructive feedback, this is a really awkward way of getting in touch with someone. Assume they're busy and professional, you're sending them a message to ask them to send you a message to tell you how to send them a message... If you want to contact someone, check their public profile on their website and see if they've said there's a preferred way (some people want everything to a certain email address, call them directly, never call them, flat out tell you not to contact them or more commonly just say email them and get to the point). Follow whatever they suggest. Write something simple and clear, and be upfront about what you're asking for. Make it as easy as possible for the person to help you (this applies to both reading and answering the question). I'm far more likely to reply if I can open an email, type a sentence or two, and then move on. With your message, I don't know if you're just after datasets, help with a particular problem, a mentor, business partner or what. I also don't know what area of audio/sound classification so if I was actually in that area then I'd not know right now if I could help or not (whereas if you'd said human voices, bird chirps, etc. I'd have a better idea). Essentially, assume most people are pleasant and helpful but also extremely busy.