I'm definitely going to be reading this blog post, and probably others by this person. They sound amazing and his work sounds amazing. So I'm not the sort of p

I'm definitely going to be reading this blog post, and probably others by this person. They sound amazing and his work sounds amazing. So I'm not the sort of person to ignore someone's technical work because of their style or attitude. But, breandan, do you realize that you sound just incredibly big-headed? This sort of stuff would be appropriate when you're interviewing, but not in public. > This year, I predicted the pandemic weeks before the lockdown, exited the market, and turned down a job at Google ... I’m making some big bets and some will be wrong, but I see the very same spark of genius in them. > A lot of people I looked up to at the time laughed at me. I’ll bet they aren’t laughing anymore. > he information economy and confirmation bias takes were all dead right. ... Don’t say I warned you, go out and fix our broken systems. > In 2017, I witnessed the birth of differentiable programming which I stole from Chris Olah and turned into a master’s thesis ...Had a lot of trouble convincing people that classical programs could be made differentiable, but look at the proceedings of any machine learning conference today and you’ll find dozens of papers on differentiable sorting and rendering and simulation. Don’t thank me, thank Chris and the Theano guys. > In 2018, I correctly predicted Microsoft would acquire GitHub to mine code.