Raphael Townshend, Stanford AI PhD and founder of Atomic AI, turned down Wall Street money to teach this for free instead.
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Raphael Townshend, Stanford AI PhD and founder of Atomic AI (Forbes 30 Under 30):
""Wall Street will pay you $500K a year to build these models. I'd rather teach them to you for free."
this free stanford lecture holds the entire "77% win rate, pure math" random forest the 2026
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