I got the email of selection as well!
There are two things on my mind:
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The child in me wants to go and learn from the innovators of our field, meet new enthusiasts.
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The logical and poor, realisitic guy says:
- Even if I meet them, I don’t have much to network with them. I’m not a good kaggler or even a noob. I haven’t implemented a single Paper to show anyone. I don’t have a super impressive github.
- Money: Even if I go over there to learn, the lectures may be uploaded to YT later.
- The money could be spent on hardware which is something that helps a lot.
- I already have the privelage of being able to talk to one of the leaders of the Free AI World: Jeremy, on here. Use that platform instead.
- Maybe one day later, some years down the road I would have accomplished something to be able to not ask questions to Jeremy but even discuss a cool project that even he would find cool. And so would Pieter Abbeel.
- Also, I really want to spend that money on attending Fast.ai in person. If I’ll be spending that much amount.
There is still a fight between point 1. and 2. inside my head.
Sanyam.