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It was news at the time because he was already famous. He had a series of videos on YouTube from his course CS231n at Stanford. He also wrote the popular char-r
by gmt2027 4y ago
It was news at the time because he was already famous. He had a series of videos on YouTube from his course CS231n at Stanford. He also wrote the popular char-rnn article in 2015 and was a founding member of the research group at OpenAI before joining Tesla.
http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/ http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/
- justapassenger 4y agoHe was as famous as Lex Fridman was before his podcast took off. Sure, some people in the industry knew him, but working for Tesla and selling their dreams of FSD really put him on the map.