Patel jokes that transformers are the most capitalist invention because spending more money reliably improves them.
“I like to joke, like, transformers are the most, like, capitalist thing that's ever been invented because you just throw more money at it, it gets better.”
Patel says at his first NeurIPS in 2021 or 2022 he only stopped at posters mentioning transformers.
“I remember the first NURBS I went to, it was, like, '21 or '22. And I was like I would walk around. I'd stop only posters that said the word transformer.”
Patel says at 2021-22 NeurIPS he only stopped at posters containing the word transformer, ignoring everything else.
“And I was like I would walk around. I'd stop only posters that said the word transformer. Like and anything that didn't say transformer, I just didn't read it.”