<story><title>Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (1990) [pdf]</title><url>https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I1fs4sczbCaACzA9XwxR3DiuXVtqmejL/view</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>halflings</author><text>As always, Jeff Dean doesn&amp;#x27;t fail to inspire respect.&lt;p&gt;Tackling a complex problem (still relevant today) at an early age, getting great results &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; describing the solution clearly&amp;#x2F;concisely.&lt;p&gt;My master thesis was ~60 pages long, and was probably about 1&amp;#x2F;1000 as useful as this one.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (1990) [pdf]</title><url>https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I1fs4sczbCaACzA9XwxR3DiuXVtqmejL/view</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mlthoughts2018</author><text>An underappreciated aspect of this is finding an academic department that would allow you to submit something this concise as a senior thesis.&lt;p&gt;My experience, mostly in grad school, was that anyone editing my work wanted more verbiage. If you only needed a short, one-sentence paragraph to say something, it just wasn’t accepted. There had to be more.&lt;p&gt;Jeff Dean is an uncommonly good communicator. But he also benefited from being allowed, perhaps even encouraged, to prioritize effective and concise communication.&lt;p&gt;Most people aren’t so lucky, and end up learning that this type of concision will not go over well. People presume you’re writing like a know-it-all, or that you didn’t do due diligence on prior work.</text></comment>