Interesting that 3 names I recognized as physicists from stat mech adjacent fields. They continue to punch above their expectations (as sampled by general dismissal of physicists in AI/ML on HN and reddit).
Some of the best software engineers I know are ex-physics PhDs… it’s one of those “can’t fake it” skillsets that also happens to have high transferability to ML/AI fields. On the other hand, I snuck through the CS major without ever multiplying a matrix.
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Interesting that 3 names I recognized as physicists from stat mech adjacent fields. They continue to punch above their expectations (as sampled by general dismissal of physicists in AI/ML on HN and reddit).
Some of the best software engineers I know are ex-physics PhDs… it’s one of those “can’t fake it” skillsets that also happens to have high transferability to ML/AI fields. On the other hand, I snuck through the CS major without ever multiplying a matrix.
I didn't, but only because I became personally interested in AI/ML at some point, so I actually had to learn it myself.
As an AI practitioner, I still couldn't explain eigenvectors or singular-value decomposition to you though.
Haha, nice bio. Seeing that font on HN is quite a shock.
Do people not like physicists?
https://xkcd.com/793/ captures the stereotype well.
Especially because those annoying dilettante know-it-all physicists are often right.