What are the main ways you’ve become stronger and smarter over the past 5 years? This isn’t a question about new object-level beliefs so much as ways-of-thinking or approaches to the world that have changed for you.
I’m changing a lot less with every successive 5-year interval. The last 5 years was the end of grad school and my time at OpenAI.
I certainly learned a lot about how to make ML work in practice (start small, prioritize simple cases where you can debug, isolate assumptions). Then I learned a lot about how to run a team. I’ve gotten better at talking to people and writing and being a broadly functional (making up on some lost time when I was younger and focused on math instead).
I don’t think there’s any simple slogan for new ways-of-thinking or changed approaches to the world. Mostly just seems like a ton of little stuff. I think earlier phases of my life were more likely to be a shift in an easily described direction, but this time it’s been more a messy mix—I became more arrogant in some ways and more humble in others, more optimistic in some ways and more pessimistic in others, more inclined to trust on-paper reasoning in some ways and less in others, etc
What are the main ways you’ve become stronger and smarter over the past 5 years? This isn’t a question about new object-level beliefs so much as ways-of-thinking or approaches to the world that have changed for you.
I’m changing a lot less with every successive 5-year interval. The last 5 years was the end of grad school and my time at OpenAI.
I certainly learned a lot about how to make ML work in practice (start small, prioritize simple cases where you can debug, isolate assumptions). Then I learned a lot about how to run a team. I’ve gotten better at talking to people and writing and being a broadly functional (making up on some lost time when I was younger and focused on math instead).
I don’t think there’s any simple slogan for new ways-of-thinking or changed approaches to the world. Mostly just seems like a ton of little stuff. I think earlier phases of my life were more likely to be a shift in an easily described direction, but this time it’s been more a messy mix—I became more arrogant in some ways and more humble in others, more optimistic in some ways and more pessimistic in others, more inclined to trust on-paper reasoning in some ways and less in others, etc