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My Memorial to Suchir Balaji

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A memorial to Suchir Balaji.

Dec 31, 2024 I knew Suchir for 8 years. He was one of the sharpest people I’d ever met, and a rare example of a true first principles, independent thinker. From the start, he was entirely self taught. When he showed up to USACO camp, I was surprised I hadn’t seen him before in the Bay Area – it turns out he’d taught himself everything he knew, to an internationally competitive level. He was also down to partake in fun and mischief, so we immediately became friends. When interning at Scale, I learned that, again, he’d blitzed learning machine learning online, again, to an internationally…

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