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The real value of the Ivy League is community, not curriculum
“Because fundamentally what we want to do is we want to build something that has the real benefits of the Ivy League, which is not, in my opinion, the curriculum. It is the community and the network.”
Gross: Humans consistently fail to predict when research becomes a commodity
“I also think that we are very, very bad as a species at predicting when things that are the far end of research are about to become a commodity.”
Gross: Bad engineers over-apply AI to problems lacking ambiguity
“Really great machine learning engineers have the same characteristic that really great all engineers have, which is they're kind of lazy, and they want to find the kind of Occam's razor, the dumbest way to fix the problem, and the bad ones want to kind of over…”