[bitwize]

A guy named Walker developing legged-robot software is even more on the nose than a guy named Karpathy developing autonomous-vehicle software.

[ginko]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

[mrec]

A noble principle, albeit not without its lamentable failures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspy_Engineer

[micromacrofoot]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Armey

[tzs]

Sometimes it works out opposite. Freakonomics talked about a man in NYC who named one of his sons "Winner" and then another son a few years later "Loser".

Winner ended up as a homeless petty criminal. Loser ended up a NYPD detective.

[memco]

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym

[psytortilla_]

Oh my god, how have I never noticed Karpathy and Car-Path-y? Amazing!

[funki]

Car-(em)pathy... Now I can't unsee it!

Thanks.