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Content is solid. I'm afraid I can't ignore the author's resume link... https://pjreddie.com/static/Redmon%20Resume.pdf https://pjreddie.com/static/Redmon%20Res
by bloqs 5y ago
Content is solid. I'm afraid I can't ignore the author's resume link... https://pjreddie.com/static/Redmon%20Resume.pdf https://pjreddie.com/static/Redmon%20Resume.pdf
- version_five 5y agoSolid - certainly memorable. I like it a lot better than those ones with meters that show your levels of various skills
- jstx1 5y agoHm. Do you think this is deliberate to filter out people with certain prejudices? Or do they genuinely think it’s a good design?
- bozzy 5y agoI'd say it is a good example of how not to take yourself too seriously. The contrast is cool too! He's achieved quite a bit and expressed it in such a cool and playful way.
- dekhn 5y agoit helped him get an internship at Google where he worked on computer vision. the person who hired him said it was a great resume and he was the smarted guy he ever worked with.
- canjobear 5y agoCountersignalling. By deviating from the “professional” look so ostentatiously, they signal that they are so good that they don’t need to use the usual look.
- randomluck040 5y agoIt’s PJ Reddie after all, the YOLO guy.
- monocasa 5y agoFor those who need a bit more context, YOLO the object recognition ML model. He can work anywhere he wants.
- timy2shoes 5y agoIf he wanted to work on computer vision instead of a vegan restaurant (or something similar, I forget exactly).
- jointpdf 5y agoAnd then there are people like me, who seem to believe that if their resume spacing is off by a nanometer, then the entire world will view them as an unemployable failure.
- enriquto 5y agothe space in the filename does it for me. What a savage.
- reedf1 5y agoYOLO was such a shake up of the computer vision space that he could probably get hired just about anywhere with a resume crudely written in crayon.
- jacobolus 5y agoThe charts in this paper are hilarious: https://pjreddie.com/media/files/papers/YOLOv3.pdf https://pjreddie.com/media/files/papers/YOLOv3.pdf Previous authors didn’t start their axes at 0, so he kept their axes and just put the timing for YOLO outside the original chart area.
- rsfern 5y agoI love section 4 — “things we tried that didn’t work”
- named-user 5y agoFor the jobs he's going to be successful at, he doesn't need a CV.
- mdp2021 5y agoWell, it is almost unforgettable, is not it? "Outstanding".
- orangepurple 5y agoExtremely knowledgeable and talented people can still harbor mental illnesses.