How Machine Learning Became My Life's Work

After my second year at Stanford, I got an internship at the National Institutes of Health, doing neuroscience research with TMS. I was very excited about it, TMS is a technology that uses magnetic fields to influence electrical activity inside a person's brain without having to cut their head open. I had read a lot about it and thought it was the coolest thing ever. After I got there, it turned out to be actually kind of boring. The first time you get to zap someone's brain, it is indeed very exciting.