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1. lyapun+06[view] [source] 2024-02-14 04:01:53
>>mfigui+(OP)
Let me say, he's a great teacher! I took a CV class with him. He should teach more, and take it seriously.

Being a popular AI influencer is not necessarily correlated with being a good researcher though. And I would argue there is a strong indication that it is negatively correlated with being a good business leader / founder.

Here's to hoping he chills out and goes back to the sorely needed lost art of explaining complicated things in elegant ways, and doesn't stray too far back into wasting time with all the top sheisters of the valley.

Edit: the more I think about it, the more I realize that it probably screws with a person to have their tweets get b-lined to the front page of hackernews. It makes you a target for offers and opportunities because of your name/influence, but not necessarily because of your underlying "best fit"

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2. coolTh+tF[view] [source] 2024-02-14 10:53:31
>>lyapun+06
My question is this, great educators like Karpathy make things from 'scratch' and explain in a way that I can understand. Is it a matter of the instructor ability to do this or it's a matter of the student(i.e. me) not having enough chops to understand material from elsewhere?
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3. someth+iS[view] [source] 2024-02-14 12:58:55
>>coolTh+tF
It's actually both!

A teacher can usually adapt the content depending on its audience, I would not teach the research in my field at the same level to professionals, PhDs, master students, bachelor students, amateurs, or even school students.

If what I'm teaching is fairly complex, it requires a lot of background that I could teach, but I would not have the time to do so, because it would be to the detriment of other students. So, while I usually teach 'from scratch', depending on my audience I will obfuscate some details (that I can answer separately if a question is asked) and usually I will dramatically change the speed of the lessons depending on the previous background, because I need to assume that the student has the prerequisite background to understand at that speed fairly complex material.

As an example, I gave some explanations to a student from zero to transformers, it took several hours with lots of questions, the same presentation to a teacher not in the field took me 1h30 and to a PhD in a related field took 25 minutes, the content was exactly the same, and it was from scratch, but the background in the audience was fairly different.

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