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I will never get why anybody wants to work for FAGMAN. It's depressing how many talents put money above integrity. You don't need to live in the bay area, most civilized places on earth let you live a comfortable life with a 10th of the salary, plus you are not selling your soul. We are doing interesting R&D in other fields too, in places you would never believe.
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Where are you following the comings and goings of small no name product managers like it's a baseball team?
clearly the employees that tweet the most must also have the best contributions to R&D...
My point is that product velocity is visible in shipped workflow improvements, not prestige hires
Prestige is fickle, look at academia today
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I can spare a minute :). This isn't exhaustive because this is just stuff I know of, obviously. - At Stanford, Led research on the first (to my knowledge) crop of joint image/text models. Super widely cited work. - At Tesla, led their whole self driving effort for a while, came up with critical techniques that allowed them to make progress (e.g., the concept of "auto labelling": using a much larger NN to generate tra…
The auto labeling work (which has been partially described/presented at Tesla AI day events) seems more like engineering than research, a grab bag of techniques that I would guess the whole team must have contributed to. For example, they auto label low resolution/indeterminate objects (image segments) by temporal continuity... Something that is a low-res blob in the distance becomes a hi-res and easy to identify obj…
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I can spare a minute :). This isn't exhaustive because this is just stuff I know of, obviously. - At Stanford, Led research on the first (to my knowledge) crop of joint image/text models. Super widely cited work. - At Tesla, led their whole self driving effort for a while, came up with critical techniques that allowed them to make progress (e.g., the concept of "auto labelling": using a much larger NN to generate tra…
Tesla still hasn't achieved their 2016 self-drive goal by their self imposed deadline of 2017, even now a decade later. So, politely, is that accolade merited?
I will never get why anybody wants to work for FAGMAN. It's depressing how many talents put money above integrity. You don't need to live in the bay area, most civilized places on earth let you live a comfortable life with a 10th of the salary, plus you are not selling your soul. We are doing interesting R&D in other fields too, in places you would never believe.
For people like him who probably already have enough money it’s probably just chasing the opportunity to work at the bedding edge of the field he loves. And maybe get to be the father of AGI.
Do you really want to be the person that hands this kind of tech to corporates? Or that does anything to benefit those corporates?
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He’s a founder of OpenAI —- likely a billionaire if he held on to his share
It's still quite interesting to me how a founder of a nonprofit can become a billionaire by having shares in it.
— Ram, Tron (1982)
Sir, please make it easy to break the twitter/x moat. Why don't we have an app that just posts to all the socials like bluesky/mastodon/threads etc