I want to share a post by Andrej Karpathy on Twitter. It doesn’t need much commentary because it’s self-explanatory, and I couldn’t add anything more insightful. He discusses the “Shortification of Learning.”
Stop watching 2-hour Machine Learning course-like videos and start reading books and long-form texts instead. That’s something I cannot forget and must constantly keep in mind.
# on shortification of "learning"
— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) February 10, 2024
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