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Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

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Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

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Post by OJFord »

zyklu5 wrote: post #32
sheepdestroyer wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reportedly, Carmack did it an a week by locking himself in an hotel room

If he could've done it in a week then he didn't really need to do it at all.

I don't think that's true, thinking back to university, if I 'locked myself in a hotel room' and did nothing but study a given topic, I reckon you could get a decent grasp of more than one lecture course.

Of course not being able to ask someone any questions would be disadvantage (but is that even a 'rule' of this scenario? Surely at least the internet is allowed, i.e. a person to ask who's available to anyone), and it would have been a lot easier while at university than with X years' rust on the background maths etc. - but still, seven full days is a lot of time if you choose to completely dedicate it to some particular thing, we just generally don't do that, so it doesn't sound it.

Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

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Post by falcor84 »

zyklu5 wrote: post #32
sheepdestroyer wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reportedly, Carmack did it an a week by locking himself in an hotel room

If he could've done it in a week then he didn't really need to do it at all.

Sometimes you have pretty much all the prerequisite knowledge but are still missing a crucial piece that would help you "piece it together" and make a significant advance.

Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

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Post by suroot »

soulofmischief wrote: post #48
suroot wrote: post #38

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Got a source on that? I know that they were married for 25 years. That's a lot of time for people to change and for differences between their needs and wants to grow. I can say that he is exactly where he wants to be professionally, and I don't think you're suggesting that taking a week out of a year to learn new things is too risky because your wife might leave you.

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Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

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Post by deadbabe »

belter wrote: post #45
jareklupinski wrote: post #31

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Maria Hill: When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics? Tony Stark: Last night. The Avengers (2012)

That is nothing..Sam Altman did it, on his way to this podcast... https://youtu.be/4gASfaRWe7s

On Hackernews some people don’t even do it at all, they just know.

Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

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Post by rsfern »

ausbah wrote: post #37

is there nothing here about attention?

The first link on the list is “the annotated transformer” which goes into a fair amount of detail on attention, it’s an annotated version of the paper that introduced scaled dot product attention

Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

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Post by 1123581321 »

jb1991 wrote: post #23
sheepdestroyer wrote: post #21

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Reportedly, Carmack did it an a week by locking himself in an hotel room

Ah, the freedoms of not having any other responsibilities.

If you're feeling unable to learn, have an honest conversation with your family about your career and your interests. They may be more willing to support you than you think. Just as you'd do the same for them so they could achieve something important to them.

Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

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Post by smeej »

How long does it take to learn the prerequisites to learn these if you don't already have a CS background?

Reading through the list, I can barely parse half the titles due to acronyms and terms I've never seen before. Would I be able to figure them out along the way? Or is there a body of knowledge this is assuming I should already have?

(This isn't a criticism of the list, or even the idea of presenting such a list without explaining who the target audience is and isn't. I'm genuinely wondering, if I just start at the top, is there any hope I would figure this out, or do I need to start somewhere else entirely?)

Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

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Post by rawgabbit »

seanhunter wrote: post #26
beepboopboop wrote: post #12

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Disagree, I’ve already changed my title to “ML professional” on linked in. Aside from the odd hallucination, I’m indistinguishable from an expert to the average hiring team.

You have to use "Certified ML professional" or noone is going to take you seriously.

I changed my title to “OpenAI Certified Professional” and 10 recruiters have already reached out!

Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

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Post by ethbr1 »

deadbabe wrote: post #54
belter wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is nothing..Sam Altman did it, on his way to this podcast... https://youtu.be/4gASfaRWe7s

On Hackernews some people don’t even do it at all, they just know.

We do it by reading a thread of such insightful comments that our third eyes are instantly opened.
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