[ryandrake]

What's with the "given his age" part? Is he too young or too old to learn something?

[AndrewUnmuted]

Most accomplished individuals in machine learning have obtained PhDs at one of the leading academic research institutions. I think the OP was wondering if Gross took a different route, since he seems on the younger side.

[andreyf]

What has he done with machine learning? He sounds like a good coder, but not really an ML heavy-weight...