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Nick on X: "i'm grateful for two people who shaped my life in almost completely non-overlapping ways. when i joined chris olah's team at openai i didn't have a clear worldview, a research direction, or any real sense of what i wanted to do. my career had wound semi-randomly with no center." / X

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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Chat Grok Premium Bookmarks Articles Profile More Post turboblitz @turboblitzzz Post See new posts Conversation Nick @nickcammarata i'm grateful for two people who shaped my life in almost completely non-overlapping ways. when i joined chris olah's team at openai i didn't have a clear worldview, a research direction, or any real sense of what i wanted to do. my career had wound semi-randomly with no center. I also knew little about ai, and had to learn on the job how a convnet worked, an embarrassing process since my job was to research them. but he made it a much easier process, pedagogically and emotionally. taking me was a big act of faith, and i tried to pay it back by learning as quickly as i could. he gave me my life's work. chris taught me the personal. that it's worth building enormous scaffolding just to see something clearly — spending hours, building custom visualizations, go

Nick @nickcammarata i'm grateful for two people who shaped my life in almost completely non-overlapping ways. when i joined chris olah's team at openai i didn't have a clear worldview, a research direction, or any real sense of what i wanted to do. my career had wound semi-randomly with no center. I also knew little about ai, and had to learn on the job how a convnet worked, an embarrassing process since my job was to research them. but he made it a much easier process, pedagogically and emotionally. taking me was a big act of faith, and i tried to pay it back by learning as quickly as i could

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