Comment by vatsachak
5 hours ago
By this definition everyone is at the right place at the right time.
ML research is weird because it's really about
- compute
- data
- architecture
You're at the right place at the right time for the first two and you're probably rediscovering a Schmidhuber for the third
Most problems are actually not that hard; most everything is actually mainly a result of right place, right time. If I hadn’t been the one to do my PhD research, someone else would have. Very few people are actually paradigm-shifting geniuses. This is fine. Good, even. But it does imply that people who are early to a field shouldn’t generally be deferred to. If anything, they’re more likely to have outmoded opinions.