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Content is solid. I'm afraid I can't ignore the author's resume link... https://pjreddie.com/static/Redmon%20Resume.pdf

Hm. Do you think this is deliberate to filter out people with certain prejudices? Or do they genuinely think it’s a good design?

I'd say it is a good example of how not to take yourself too seriously. The contrast is cool too! He's achieved quite a bit and expressed it in such a cool and playful way.

it helped him get an internship at Google where he worked on computer vision. the person who hired him said it was a great resume and he was the smarted guy he ever worked with.

Countersignalling. By deviating from the “professional” look so ostentatiously, they signal that they are so good that they don’t need to use the usual look.

It’s PJ Reddie after all, the YOLO guy.

For those who need a bit more context, YOLO the object recognition ML model. He can work anywhere he wants.

If he wanted to work on computer vision instead of a vegan restaurant (or something similar, I forget exactly).

And then there are people like me, who seem to believe that if their resume spacing is off by a nanometer, then the entire world will view them as an unemployable failure.

the space in the filename does it for me. What a savage.

YOLO was such a shake up of the computer vision space that he could probably get hired just about anywhere with a resume crudely written in crayon.

The charts in this paper are hilarious: https://pjreddie.com/media/files/papers/YOLOv3.pdf

Previous authors didn’t start their axes at 0, so he kept their axes and just put the timing for YOLO outside the original chart area.

I love section 4 — “things we tried that didn’t work”

Solid - certainly memorable. I like it a lot better than those ones with meters that show your levels of various skills

For the jobs he's going to be successful at, he doesn't need a CV.

Well, it is almost unforgettable, is not it? "Outstanding".

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