[randomsolutions]

Yea, I don't see the problem with someone rediscovering knowledge.

The question I would ask is, would geohot have been better to have gone to school to learn this and deferred all the work he has done?

Who is farther ahead, the people who already knew this from school, or the guy who is building and learning this as he goes?

[eddd-ddde]

I think both is good, people thrive on diversity, if everyone was taught exactly the same they would think the same. Without some people with different experiences we would certainly miss on some creations.

[AndrewKemendo]

100% the person building and learning as they go

A PhD in ML is worth less to me than day to day operational product engineering experience utilizing the fast changing ML tooling landscape

[polygamous_bat]

> A PhD in ML is worth less to me than day to day operational product engineering experience utilizing the fast changing ML tooling landscape

This is how you get a four-week transition from "I can fix twitter search in an internship!" to "twitter search is unfixable." Ideally, a PhD teaches you to bust your behind doing a deep dive on a seemingly unsolvable problem for three-five years.

If only we could recalibrate ourselves to stop the search for easy money and remind ourselves that some problems are just genuinely hard.

[AndrewKemendo]

I mean I’m talking generally not about him specifically

The best senior engineers on the planet have a BS and 30 years experience

[colesantiago]

Unfortunately 'senior engineers' who have 30+ years of experience in the valley and other places are past their prime in SV by most top tech companies as engineers.

They are expected to be in management roles.

[lll-o-lll]

Obviously school puts you further ahead. Human development is based on writing, teaching, and then expanding from there.

The entire point of having a structured approach to teaching (and this includes apprenticeships and the like), is to accelerate the process of learning.

[polygamous_bat]

> would geohot have been better to have gone to school to learn this and deferred all the work he has done?

Could you remind me what he has done since his jailbreaking day, i.e. in the last ten years, that can't be described as "setting VC money on fire?" Because my opinion would be, that yes, the world would have been better off if he did go to school.

[georgehotz]

We have a product for sale: https://comma.ai

We raised $18.1M and have made $28M in revenue to date.

Where are you getting your narrative? Are you confusing comma with someone else?