in 2010 for my undergrad electrical engineering capstone thesis “learning image compression” i used an mlp to do causal predictive on-line image compression, with a primitive convolution. it got a b- and i didn’t touch ai again until 2015. the lesson is always bet on yourself.

also speaks to the power of good mentorship. i do sometimes wonder who i’d be today if my supervisor had known anything about what i was working on. of course in 2010 maybe 100 people worldwide cared about neural networks.

honestly just happy to be here