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What Jeff Dean thinks about taste

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Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research, at Google since 1999, where he co-created MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow and the TPU.

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  1. Our readingWhen agents do the building, the scarce skill is taste: choosing which problem is worth the time at all.

    Their wordsYeah, I mean I think it's really having incredibly good taste in what you ask your agents to work on, right? That is the the crux of you know from my background uh a research problem. You know, a researcher can have all the tools and all the techniques, but often most of the battle is what problem are you gonna spend your time on?

    ↗Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AIyoutube.com 18th of 22 in this recording

  3. Our readingTaste can be trained deliberately: write down what you think will matter in twelve months, then go back in twelve months and score yourself.

    Their wordsUm, another way you can get more experience for yourself is to just write down a bunch of things you think might be important in the next 12 months. And maybe you pick one of them to work on, but go back and evaluate in 12 months of these other things, which ones actually seemed important or which ones did other people in the world go out and and create and which ones did they did not seem to do yet.

    ↗Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AIyoutube.com 19th of 22 in this recording