Andrej Karpathy (born 23 October 1986) is a Slovakian-Canadian

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who served as the director of

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and

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Vision at Tesla. He specializes in

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and

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. Andrej Karpathy was born in

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(now Slovakia) and moved with his family to

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when he was 15. He completed his Computer Science and Physics bachelor's degree at

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in 2009 and completed his master's degree at

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in 2011, where he worked on physically-simulated figures. Karpathy graduated with a PhD from

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in 2015 under the supervision of

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, focusing on the intersection of

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and computer vision, and deep learning models suited for this task. He authored and was the primary instructor of the first deep learning course at Stanford, ''CS 231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition''. This class became one of the largest at Stanford and has grown from 150 enrolled students in 2015 to 750 in 2017. Karpathy is a founding member of the artificial intelligence research group

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, where he worked from 2015 to 2017 as a research scientist. In June 2017 he became Tesla's director of artificial intelligence. Karpathy was named one of

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for the year 2020. After taking a several months-long sabbatical from Tesla, Karpathy announced he was leaving the company in July 2022. Karpathy ran the YouTube channel badmephisto''' which focused on

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from 2007 to 2011. His tutorials were some of the first videos documenting how to improve with the

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which several aspiring top speedcubers learned from, such as

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