The answer to "Will you mentor me?" is...No.
D'oh  I am somewhat embarrassed  that my rants land up on HN.<p>On HN I try to have a measured tone. On my personal blog,I just write(rant!) without regard to "voice" and so on. It doesn't help that, while I enjoy meeting people and parties and such,  I am equally content to stay in the shadows and don't care about "personal brand" or building a group to bring change and so on.<p>I just got frustrated at receiving the nth "please mentor me and send me some code so I can do a cool AI project for my  bachelor's degree requirements. I need this next week." email.<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=670453" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=670453</a>  is the original thread , with many nice comments.