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I'll just take a quick moment to introduce myself to convince you that I am actually qualified to be
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taking you on this eight week journey.
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So my name is Ed Donner.
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I've got about 20 years of experience in software engineering, data science, and tech leadership.
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Most of my career at JP Morgan, where at the end I ran engineering teams of about 300 people.
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I started out in London where I'm from.
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I then moved to Tokyo for a bit and ended up in New York City, where I live now.
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After JP Morgan, I founded a couple of AI startups.
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My first startup was sold, was acquired a couple of years ago, and in fact, that picture on the bottom
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right shows the moment when it was announced on a Times Square billboard.
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That was a particularly magical moment for me.
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But I don't want to show you that photo to brag about my Times Square moment, but also because, curiously,
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I actually live very near Times Square.
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It's an unusual place to live because it's such a sort of tourist place to be.
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But if you see these two red arrows and you imagine where they join up, that's basically where I live.
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And that's where I am right now.
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And so if you can imagine if I wave at you right now, if this were somehow a real time photo, you'd
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have a little me waving at you from roundabout where those red lines meet.
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Okay.
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And the final thing to mention, the picture in the middle at the bottom shows me flying.
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Or in front of a plane.
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You might be thinking, that's me saying, this is my big passion, my hobby, I fly planes.
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But in fact, that's that's not not what I was going to say.
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It turns out that whilst I'm very proficient and highly skilled in the field of llms, that does not
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translate in any way to my hand-eye coordination, which is terrible on almost any front, including
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flying planes where I have tried and am very shaky to say the least.
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So if it turns out that you find yourself in a plane and you look at the cockpit and you see that I
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am the person there on the stick, I suggest you look quickly for the nearest parachute.
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But if it comes to you needing to go on an eight week course to build up commercial expertise in how
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to be an LM engineer, then you've come to the right place.
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All right, without further ado, let's get to the course.