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5 Jul 2024 Latent Space The 10,000x Yolo Researcher Metagame — with Yi Tay of Reka

“In fact, I will try to be as I don't really say like, okay, you need to learn Jax, you need to learn this.”

— Yi Tay

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Yi Tay
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5 Jul 2024
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Latent Space

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…Exactly, right? Okay, good. So for all you listening out there, you don't have to feel like an imposter. No, but, but you need to be willing to learn if you have to, I think. Well, you haven't had to so far. Yeah, I haven't had to so far, right. So if I sling pie torch, okay, great. You know, what kind of do, do I do I know like distributed systems, like do I know, like what, what is the, what is the stack that you recommend for people that get, gets you like a well-rounded end-to-end researcher. I don't, I, I don't think there's any specific thing. In fact, I will try to be as I don't really say like, okay, you need to learn Jax, you need to learn this. By the time you think there's a new frame out anyway, so, so it's more of like. Staying like constantly, like trying to, being able to continuously learn and update. I, I don't think that's a single, single stack or like a single single like workflow or I don't think that's a single one. Yeah. Well, that, that leads us to Rebecca. Yeah. What's the founding story? So, I, I met some of my other co-founders while we were collaborating at that did my end. I was at, at brand and they were like a DeepMind. I'm not like a, a, a startup person. I, I I, I identify even today. As a scientist and a researcher more than like a startup person, right? My co founder, Danny, started this story. Right. And then this, this record was like, in the works from like, late 2022. I, I finally left in 2023. Then he kept asking me, he wants to do something. Do I want to go with him and do it? And, and it took, took a while for for me. Also, I was like, kind of the last co founder to kind of form the Was the plan always for you to leave at some point and join him? No, no. He was convincing you to do it. It was…

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