How Did Fei-Fei Li Achieve Success? — Reading 'The Worlds I See'
To read a good book is to talk with many noble people — Goethe I first heard of Fei-Fei Li in 2013 during a casual lunch chat with my then company’s CTO. He was deep into CUDA and parallel computing and kept bringing up the ImageNet competition and AlexNet’s breakthrough. I was still only vaguely aware of the deep learning revolution that was about to sweep the world—at the time I was fully focused on optimizing business systems and had neither the bandwidth to dig into “algorithm black boxes” nor the foresight to see how they would reshape the tech world. ...