No it's not that...as tempting as that is often...
It's that the spoils of the new economy are accumulating in a way that completely forgets the middle 90% of the country. Kevin is obviously really smart, but has access to things I don't even have in a state school by virtue of being a sharp high schooler in Palo Alto, much less when I was in high school.
Life is long. If his location gives him access to opportunities that you don't have, figure out a way to get access to those opportunities and execute on it once you graduate from college. Many prominent Silicon Valley people came from small towns in the mid-west (Marc Andreessen, Evan Williams) or immigrated from poor political situations abroad (Sergey Brin, Jan Koum, Elon Musk).
very well said with annotated sample personalities who made it top of Silicon Vally ...
> Life is long. If his location gives him access to opportunities that you don't have, figure out a way to get access to those opportunities and execute on it once you graduate from college. Many prominent
> Silicon Valley people came from small towns in the mid-west (Marc Andreessen, Evan Williams) or immigrated from poor political situations abroad (Sergey Brin, Jan Koum, Elon Musk).
I think that Kevin may be diving in ML papers instead of writing about things that discourage him on HN ;) But for real, the access to knowledge is really easy now. There were also so many threads on HN where to start and what good materials are. Sure, having pros around you help, but they just don't gather around random people.
Being in the Bay Area already gives you huge advantage over most of the population, especially when you compare to less developed countries.
that's what I do the rest of the day because it's part of my job
I more mean the hardware access part - at 15 my parents would have never given me their debit card to spend hundreds of dollars on GCP GPUs - good luck training GANs on a laptop CPU!
> but has access to things I don't even have in a state school by virtue of being a sharp high schooler in Palo Alto, much less when I was in high school.
and then you go on to say
> I more mean the hardware access part - at 15 my parents would have never given me their debit card to spend hundreds of dollars on GCP GPUs - good luck training GANs on a laptop CPU!
That has literally nothing to do with location as you seem to allude to in the earlier post. It has nothing to do with the spoils of an economy being distributed unequally. Maybe if the hardware was only accessible in certain parts of the country, sure your point makes sense. But anybody with money could've bought it.
So your post now reads as "I'm going to blame me not achieving as much as Kevin on my parents for not spending money on me when I was young."
That article was encouraging, if anything. It shows exactly how available educational resources to the field of AI have become that a 15-year old can have access to them and make significant progress. it shows if you take initiative, you can actually go ahead and get things done.
> That has literally nothing to do with location as you seem to allude to in the earlier post. It has nothing to do with the spoils of an economy being distributed unequally
Palo Alto is one of the wealthiest cities in the country.
