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Andrej Karpathy

What Andrej Karpathy thinks about education

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  1. Our readingEducation is not a soft business of diffusing knowledge but a hard technical problem of building ramps to it.

    Their wordsso in my mind education is kind of like the very difficult technical like uh process of building ramps to knowledge.

    ↗Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”youtube.com 28th of 30 in this recording

    Interesting

  3. Our readingEarly schooling is not for accumulating knowledge but for booting up a brain, and physics does that better than any other subject.

    Their wordsIt's about booting up a brain and I think physics uniquely boots up the brain the best.

    ↗Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”youtube.com 30th of 30 in this recording

    physics

    Interesting