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by jessehu 2444 days ago
Nice hustle! How did you decide to start in CS research? Do you attend a math & sciences HS, or have family members in academics? Or perhaps just from reading the internet?
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OpenAI mostly. Started following along what they're doing and eventually spiraled into going to one of their meetups and then attending ICML this summer.

I'm not particularly a genius, but deeply passionate and curious on what I do. As a result, doing research or an internship was more fun than most other things I'd be doing over the summer/fall.

Didn't grow up in the best of situations, but learned how lucky I was to live in the Bay, giving me access to meet people IRL and grow from there.

> I'm not particularly a genius, but deeply passionate and curious on what I do

The two are often indistinguishable from each other.

You have a very wise perspective for your age. Good luck to you.

I think I've spent too much time reading PG's essays :).