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Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy

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Re: Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy

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Post by timemachiner »

Since it seems to be a thing to report that X person specializing in machine learning has moved from Y company to Z, it makes me wonder if other areas of computer science is seen as relevant by the general public.

One rarely hears Dr. John Doe from Florida State University (or insert non-Standford university here) in Distributed systems has moved from Microsoft Research to NetApp. These are arbitrary names. The point is you rarely hear about people from other areas of CS outside of machine learning/universities outside of Stanford moving from one company to another. The field of CS is vast and there are multitude of practical and theoretical problems outside of machine learning that are worth looking into (ones that aren't currently considered hip or cool by the public).

Re: Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy

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Post by glial »

komaromy wrote: post #5
komaromy wrote: post #2

Interesting, to move from an Elon-Musk-chaired non-profit to an Elon-Musk-owned for-profit.

Also, this is very impressive for someone who finished his PhD less than two years ago.

He is one of a very few PhD students whose work I'd heard of and followed before they graduated. He had a great & informative blog, too.

Re: Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy

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Post by Aron »

komaromy wrote: post #5
komaromy wrote: post #2

Interesting, to move from an Elon-Musk-chaired non-profit to an Elon-Musk-owned for-profit.

Also, this is very impressive for someone who finished his PhD less than two years ago.

Yeah, it's always nice to see people overcome this particular handicap.
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