[lyapunova]

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"

[johnnyanmac]

>He should teach more, and take it seriously.

if only we compensated that knowledge properly. Youtube seems to come the closest, but Youtube educators also show how much time you have to spend attracting views instead of teaching expertise.

> It makes you a target for offers and opportunities because of your name/influence, but not necessarily because of your underlying "best fit"

That's unfortunately life in a nutshell. The best fits rarely end up getting any given position. May be overqualified, filtered out in the HR steps, or rejected for some ephemeral reason (making them RTO, not accepting their counteroffer, potentially illegal factors behind closed doors, etc).

it's a crappy game so I don't blame anyone for using whatever cards they are dealt.

[samspenc]

> Youtube seems to come the closest, but Youtube educators also show how much time you have to spend attracting views instead of teaching expertise.

Actually for all the attention that the top Youtubers get (in terms of revenue), the reality is that it's going to be impossible to replace teaching income with popular Youtube videos alone.

Based on what I've seen, 1 million video views on Youtube gets you something like $5-10K. And that's with a primarily US audience that has the higher CPM / RPM. So your channel(s) would need to get to about 6 million views per year, primarily US driven, in order to get to earning a median US wage.

[godelski]

> if only we compensated that knowledge properly.

Something I've been thinking a lot about is the transition into post scarcity and how we need to dramatically alter the incentive structures and payment allocations.

I've been asking this question for about a decade and still have no good solutions: "What do you do when x% of your workforce is unemployable?" (being that x% of jobs are removed without replacement. Imagine sophisticated and cheap robots. Or if needed, magic)

This is a thought experiment, so your answer can't be "there'll be new jobs." Even if you believe that's what'll happen in real life, it's not in bounds of the thought experiment. It is best to consider multiple values of x because it is likely to change and that would more reflect a post scarcity transition. It is not outside the realms of possibility that in the future you can obtain food, shelter, and medical care for free or at practically no cost. "Too cheap to meter" if you will.

I'll give you two answers that I've gotten that I find interesting. I do not think either are great and they each have issues. 1) jobs programs. Have people do unnecessary jobs simply so they create work wherein we can compensate them. 2) Entertainment. People are, on average, far more interested in watching people play chess against one another than computers, despite the computer being better. So reasons that this ,,might,, not go away.

[fuzzfactor]

>The best fits rarely end up getting any given position.

This can be self-fulfilling.

In an organization beyond a certain size, there will be more almost-adequate-fits than there are leadership positions. This could be about like a recognized baseline which seems like it really needs to be scrutinized closely to see exactly who might be slightly above or below the line.

Or in a small company where there is not any almost-fit whatsoever, imagination can result in an ideal that is equally recognizable, but also might not be fully attainable.

Either way it could be OK but not exactly the best-fit.

If good fortune smiles and the rare more-than-adequate-fit appears anywhere on the horizon though, it's so unfamiliar they fly right over the radar.

[sharadov]

I don't think he needs the money. I googled around and he's worth 50 million.

[jejeyyy77]

I would pay for a course from him

[bobthepanda]

Sometimes I wish as a profession we valued teaching more. I would love to teach, but not do research, and make a living.

[passion__desire]

Become the next 3blue1brown. He has inspired many.

Here's a gem of educator. Check out his other videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhYqflvJMXc

[mitthrowaway2]

I think good teachers make great researchers, because they have to understand their field very well, they anticipate and ask themselves the questions that need to be asked, they manage to always see their field with fresh eyes, they are good collaborators, and most importantly, good communicators.

[tugberkk]

If they are teaching the specific research topic, yes. Otherwise, you need to come up with 14-week course material for different courses.

[coolThingsFirst]

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?

[somethingsome]

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.

[trogdor]

> it probably screws with a person to have their tweets get b-lined to the front page of hackernews

Just a friendly heads-up, it’s “bee-lined.”

I normally wouldn’t point that out, but “b-lined” could be read to suggest the opposite of your intention; a lower priority, a la “B-list celebrity.”

[mcbishop]

The Lex Fridman episode with Andrej was an awesome education. Things explained so clearly.

[aantix]

He should start a Patreon account.

[chpatrick]

I don't imagine he's short on cash...

[KerrAvon]

b-lined?

[squigz]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_line

[spicyusername]

    He should teach more and take it seriously

Then he can go from being in the top .1% of income earners to the bottom .1%!

/s