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I have a PhD from one of the best universities in the world in Machine Translation, I was training feed forward networks in 2014, built models in TensorFlow in 2016, founded a generative AI startup in 2019 and signed deals with huge consumer goods companies, debugged distributed training jobs on a cluster with thousands of A100s, and wrote PyTorch training pipelines for a financial ML trading signal that made money.

Yet, I am unqualified to join an AI startup because I’ve never made an API request to OpenAI



The attitude underlying this comment likely makes you a bad culture fit...


Make ur first API request to OpenAI today and who knows, rooting for ya!


This is a bad faith comment - if you had all that in your resume, they wouldnt disqualify you for not ‘sending an api request’.


Having a PhD vs. making that API call might ironically suggest you don’t emanate hands-on product thinking.

I know PhDs in data science and language technology who are not startup material because they’re too uncomfortable outside of MatLab/Jupyter/R.




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