I read one post on his blog and found that Adam Paszke reached out to the author and got an internship. I wonder if it was that easy to get an internship at FAIR. I thought that they hire only PhDs.
I was pretty involved in the PyTorch ecosystem in the early days around 2016 and Adam was nothing short of a genius and prolific developer whose contributions to the codebase and community were immense. I think he was like an undergrad in Poland at the time. My understanding is that his contributions came before the internship, but I don’t know.
My memory is that Souminth was really open to other people’s contributions and questions, no matter their credentials. He was a great leader who felt approachable to the open-source community.
I didn't know that. Soumith Chintala certainly paid it forward. He was very helpful and supportive of random strangers (like me!) in the early pytorch days. I count him with Andrej Karpathy and Chris Olah as one of the people who really made machine learning accessible to regular software engineers.
If you don't mind, how did you get into cryptography development? I have heard many say that don't do this unless you're experienced but I wonder how one becomes more experienced if you don't do it by yourself.
