Wow, I'm amazed at Andrew's list of accomplishments. I mean any one of these would be a career capstone for most people - Stanford Professor - Founding lead of the Google Brain project - Author of one of the most famous and loved MOOC's - Head of AI for Baidu, built up the AI team in both China and the US. - Founder of Coursera And I see from wikipedia that he and I are roughly the same age :( Engineers are often see…
Only reasonable explanation is that he has a secret AGI working for him in the shadow.
Wow, I'm amazed at Andrew's list of accomplishments. I mean any one of these would be a career capstone for most people - Stanford Professor - Founding lead of the Google Brain project - Author of one of the most famous and loved MOOC's - Head of AI for Baidu, built up the AI team in both China and the US. - Founder of Coursera And I see from wikipedia that he and I are roughly the same age :( Engineers are often see…
...and all that (excluding the professor part) since 2011! Boy, talk about working fast! In case you can't tell, there's a great big sarcasm tag there. There is absolutely no way that the guy has contributed substantially to all of those things in less than six years. Sometimes, people get a reputation for something, and then leverage that into a slingshot of career advancement. Good for him, but the people who are d…
Or, perhaps a little less cynically, that it takes a long time for your work to reach a critical mass, but past that point many factors come into play that allow you to ship stuff at a much increased pace: your work has a much higher visibility, more people are willing to collaborate with you, you have easier acccess to grants, etc
...and all that (excluding the professor part) since 2011! Boy, talk about working fast! In case you can't tell, there's a great big sarcasm tag there. There is absolutely no way that the guy has contributed substantially to all of those things in less than six years. Sometimes, people get a reputation for something, and then leverage that into a slingshot of career advancement. Good for him, but the people who are d…
Or, perhaps a little less cynically, that it takes a long time for your work to reach a critical mass, but past that point many factors come into play that allow you to ship stuff at a much increased pace: your work has a much higher visibility, more people are willing to collaborate with you, you have easier acccess to grants, etc
This guy is an executive. He isn't "shipping" anything, and it isn't cynical to say that.
Engineers tend to think about these things as if the world is a meritocracy based on your individual contributions. But for a lot of famous people, 80% of their contribution comes from attaching their name to the management page.
I agree with you that none of this would be possible without the years of work he did to build his reputation. But people shouldn't feel bad just because a well-known person has lots of flash on their resume. This stuff accumulates at an unnatural rate.
...and all that (excluding the professor part) since 2011! Boy, talk about working fast! In case you can't tell, there's a great big sarcasm tag there. There is absolutely no way that the guy has contributed substantially to all of those things in less than six years. Sometimes, people get a reputation for something, and then leverage that into a slingshot of career advancement. Good for him, but the people who are d…
Or, perhaps a little less cynically, that it takes a long time for your work to reach a critical mass, but past that point many factors come into play that allow you to ship stuff at a much increased pace: your work has a much higher visibility, more people are willing to collaborate with you, you have easier acccess to grants, etc
Become Stanford professor > Get prominent job > show you're cool > Get invited to do things!
But I doubt his work rate and energy was any less before, just as you say, it's visibility. And very cool.
Maybe we should all be on the lookout for at least one career move, that gains us a relative boost in visibility, even at the expense of other desiderata.
Wow, I'm amazed at Andrew's list of accomplishments. I mean any one of these would be a career capstone for most people - Stanford Professor - Founding lead of the Google Brain project - Author of one of the most famous and loved MOOC's - Head of AI for Baidu, built up the AI team in both China and the US. - Founder of Coursera And I see from wikipedia that he and I are roughly the same age :( Engineers are often see…
Amazing guy, I must say!
Like Nicola Tesla ... it's no coincidence he says AI is the new electricity.
Wow, I'm amazed at Andrew's list of accomplishments. I mean any one of these would be a career capstone for most people - Stanford Professor - Founding lead of the Google Brain project - Author of one of the most famous and loved MOOC's - Head of AI for Baidu, built up the AI team in both China and the US. - Founder of Coursera And I see from wikipedia that he and I are roughly the same age :( Engineers are often see…
Really effective people can enter a positive reinforcement loop where they just go exponential.
Wow, I'm amazed at Andrew's list of accomplishments. I mean any one of these would be a career capstone for most people - Stanford Professor - Founding lead of the Google Brain project - Author of one of the most famous and loved MOOC's - Head of AI for Baidu, built up the AI team in both China and the US. - Founder of Coursera And I see from wikipedia that he and I are roughly the same age :( Engineers are often see…
...and all that (excluding the professor part) since 2011! Boy, talk about working fast! In case you can't tell, there's a great big sarcasm tag there. There is absolutely no way that the guy has contributed substantially to all of those things in less than six years. Sometimes, people get a reputation for something, and then leverage that into a slingshot of career advancement. Good for him, but the people who are d…
He happens to be a very good teacher -- I've seen this first-hand, and anecdotally a great builder of teams and mentor.
So ... these are real skills that supersede individual-contributor skills.
In the same way that software offers leverage, really good people-finding -training and -inspiring skills allow you to turn yourself into a group intelligence.
Wow, I'm amazed at Andrew's list of accomplishments. I mean any one of these would be a career capstone for most people - Stanford Professor - Founding lead of the Google Brain project - Author of one of the most famous and loved MOOC's - Head of AI for Baidu, built up the AI team in both China and the US. - Founder of Coursera And I see from wikipedia that he and I are roughly the same age :( Engineers are often see…
Or, perhaps a little less cynically, that it takes a long time for your work to reach a critical mass, but past that point many factors come into play that allow you to ship stuff at a much increased pace: your work has a much higher visibility, more people are willing to collaborate with you, you have easier acccess to grants, etc
This guy is an executive. He isn't "shipping" anything, and it isn't cynical to say that. Engineers tend to think about these things as if the world is a meritocracy based on your individual contributions. But for a lot of famous people, 80% of their contribution comes from attaching their name to the management page. I agree with you that none of this would be possible without the years of work he did to build his r…