Andrej Karpathy

You're having beers at the conference later.

And you ask them, so, like, this paper, like, so, what were you doing?

Like, what is the paper about?

And they will just tell you these, like, three sentences that, like, perfectly capture the essence of that paper and totally give you the idea.

And you didn't have to read the paper.

And, like, it's only when you're sitting at the table with a beer or something like that and, like, oh, yeah, the paper is just, oh, you take this idea, you take that idea, and you try this experiment, and you try this thing.

And they have a way of just putting it conversationally.

And just, like, perfectly, like, why isn't that the abstract?

I don't actually know that I have unique tips and tricks, to be honest.

Basically, it's kind of a painful process.

But, you know, redraft one.

I think one thing that has always helped me quite a bit is...

I had a small tweet about this, actually.

So, like, learning things on demand is pretty nice.

Learning depth-wise.

I do feel like you need a bit of alternation of learning depth-wise on demand.

You're trying to achieve a certain project that you're going to get a reward from.

And learning breadth-wise, which is just, oh, let's do whatever one-on-one.

And here's all the things you might need.

Which is a lot of school does a lot of breadth-wise learning.