Met a Meta AI researcher. He studied Physics in China, came to the US for a PhD in Physics, and then fell in love with AI, despite never having studied computer science. He watched Andrej Karpathy and Andrew Ng, bought a GPU, read every arXiv paper title daily, and dived into the ones that interested him. Eventually, he published a few first-author papers at top AI conferences without any supervisors, and later transferred to his university鈥檚 AI lab. You can just do things.
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Replying to @Yuchenj_UW
Proof that passion outpaces pedigree every single time.

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Replying to @kenshii_ai
curiosity, passion, agency, taste >> iq, degree
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DTEK is bringing light back to Ukraine 馃挕 In October alone, DTEK restored electricity to 3 million Ukrainian families following russian attacks, including: - 803,500 families in Kyiv - 70,000 homes in the region around Kyiv - 456,900 homes in Odesa region - 800,000 homes in Dnipro region - 832,600 families in Donetsk region Since the start of the full-scale invasion, we鈥檝e reconnected households 24.8 million times.
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