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I'm amazed that he has time for this kind of hobby work.
by kozak 5y ago
I'm amazed that he has time for this kind of hobby work.
- yellow_lead 5y agoFor others: Andrej Karpathy is the director of artificial intelligence and Autopilot Vision at Tesla. Was on front page yesterday for a presentation on Tesla's Autopilot / Autonomous features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSDTZQdo6H8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSDTZQdo6H8
- mlcrypto 5y agoMaybe most of his job is hype & marketing without delivering much
- ketamine__ 5y agoFSD rollout has been delayed many times. He's underperforming.
- nexuist 5y agoThis is a very cynical way of looking at development progress. Did the iPhone team underperform by shipping in 2007 instead of 2005?
- animex 5y agoOr Elon is over-performing.
- throwkeep 5y agoHe's almost certainly a 100x engineer.
- ketamine__ 5y agoHas he saved 100x lives with FSD?
- doggosphere 5y ago100x means he produces 100x you (or 100x the average engineer).
- delaaxe 5y agoDefinitely saved plenty of lives already. You should watch that video from yesterday
- meekaaku 5y agoHe was doing this kind of hobby work well before. I learnt solving Rubik's cube from his page[0]. [0] http://badmephisto.com http://badmephisto.com
- isaacimagine 5y agoWoah, he's him? Same here!
- enchiridion 5y agoI had no idea!!! That's amazing.
- therein 5y agoOh wow, me too.
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- cusx 5y agoWhat a pleasant surprise!
- prawn 5y agoSame - recognised the domain instantly! Used it to teach my son as well.
- perfect_wave 5y agoI think I still have my printouts of the PLL algorithms somewhere… Cool to learn this is the same guy.
- andai 5y ago"If you want something done quickly, give it to the busiest person."
- delaaxe 5y ago“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” ― Bill Gates
- calvinmorrison 5y agoIs it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but I do it anyway because it's sterile and I like the taste. -- Patches O'Houlihan
- boringg 5y agoProbably helps his boss is the "tecnoking" and cfo is the "master of coin". Agreed though - impressive he has that kind of sidebar time or is so capable he doesn't need that much time to figure it out.
- woah 5y agoThis stuff isn't that hard to figure out, given the number of specifications and tutorials already out there. What's impressive is the fact that he thought of a reasonably sized task, and (presumably) executed it efficiently and completely without getting stuck or distracted.
- delaaxe 5y agoHe started tweeting about this like months ago
- kebman 5y agoI spent quite some time researching this a few years ago. Then I finally programmed and generated my own fully working address. It's quite a satisfying journey. But I have to say, Python makes this somewhat less painful than it is in JavaScript (yes, I tried that too...) xD
- actinium226 5y agoI know right? I had to do a double take when I saw the link, and then had to click it to confirm it was that Karpathy
- spoonjim 5y agoHe’s smart enough to do the job he has because he has done this hobby work his whole life. See also Peter Norvig.
- roystonvassey 5y agoI think he’s a natural teacher - someone who loves sharing what he’s learnt with others - and it pleases to me know such people exist. Everything I learned about deep neural networks, enough to apply it in a live product, was essentially all his notes, videos and exercises. And it’s all out there for free! Thanks Andrej and keep doing cool stuff!
- christophergs 5y agoA lot of busy, smart people have seemingly random side-projects. For example, Von Neumann: "A professor of Byzantine history at Princeton once said that von Neumann had greater expertise in Byzantine history than he did" [1] I don't know for sure why, but I think two possibilities are likely: (1) An extremely strong, natural intellectual curiosity and/or (2) Working on other things allows them to bring fresh ideas/insights to their "main" work, and in this sense is also rejuvenating. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
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- natmaka 5y agoFrom this point of view intelligence and memory may be just like muscle: the more you use (train) it, the more is grows (performs well).