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I honestly cannot fathom why anyone working in the AI space would find $50 too much to spend to gain a deeper insight into the subject. Creating educational mat
by PheonixPharts 3y ago
I honestly cannot fathom why anyone working in the AI space would find $50 too much to spend to gain a deeper insight into the subject. Creating educational materials requires an insane amount of work, and I can promise, no matter how successful this book is, if rasbt were do the math on income generated over hours spent creating it wouldn't make sense as an hourly rate.
Plenty of other people have this understanding of these topics, and you know what they chose to do with that knowledge? Keep it to themselves and go work at OpenAI to make far more money keeping that knowledge private.
If you want to live in a world where this knowledge is open, at the very least refrain from publicly complaining about a book that cost roughly the same as a decent dinner.
- rasbt 3y agoYeah, I don't think creating educational materials makes sense from an economical perspective, but it's one of my hobbies that gives me joy for some reason :). Hah, and 'insane amount of work' is probably right -- lots of sacrifices to carve out that necessary time.
- wslh 3y agoNot talking about affordability but about following links thinking that I would find another kind of resource. Beyond this case, this happens all the time with click-baity content. Again, if the link was to Amazon or the editors it will be clear associated with a product while Github is associated with open source content. Not being pedantic, just an observation browsing the web.
- wslh 3y agoI would add that I can find 5k of useful resources for USD 50 each. It is not the individual item but the all the context. Personally, I am not focused on a specific topic such as LLMs but work on an spectrum of topics more akind an analyst job + broad research skills.
- _giorgio_ 3y agoNot to be pedantic, but in this case it's probably 30 usd for print and ebook (there are always coupons on the manning website).
- layer8 3y ago> anyone working in the AI space I would have expected the main target audience to be people NOT working in the AI space, that don’t have any prior knowledge (“from scratch”), just curious to learn how an LLM works.