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I was in the happy position of finding a job (post being a failed academic) doing stuff at the intersection of architecture and algorithms (high-speed regex implementation) and getting to to this for 11 years straight (2 years as a researcher, 5 years as a startup CTO, 4 years as a Principal Engineer at Intel). Got a decent if not ginormous exit too, which was nice. Also got to IMO change the industry - Hyperscan (gi…
> I am thinking about blogging about this I'd probably read it.
I've excitedly taken on every little task thrown at me over the years, I think, because I went to school for GIS, earned geography degrees, and never in my life expected to do anything remotely as interesting as this. It's as if my career expectations began so much lower. So when I was asked to do all the dull work, it wasn't dull for me. I've built a very complementary skill set that's rather valuable almost anywhere in the mobile robotics field. All without any engineering or CS education (which makes me really angry at the education system for barring me from engineering or CS, but that's another story)
You might as well have asked who among us won the lottery. I've been struggling with this for years now; after 4 boring jobs I finally gave up even the expectation that what I'll be asked to do will be even remotely interesting (or socially useful). The chance of landing an interesting job is absolutely minuscule - the market rewards whatever it rewards at the moment, and that's where jobs flock. These days, one of t…
One might ask: what does the alternative look like? From what I can tell Marx is a bit wishy-washy on that point.
Hayek more helpfully explained that the market provides a mechanism for determining value, not virtue. That it works, but doesn't uplift. And that trying to force it to will leave with neither -- you will need to find your meaning in something else.
We are developing a matter compiler. We are working on designing molecular Lego to assemble them into new catalysts, therapeutic compounds, atomically precise membranes and sensors for proteins and small molecules. The goal is to make molecules that can do everything that proteins can do and that can be designed by human beings with computer assistance. We've developed a programming environment with a custom compiler…
I've been to your talk in Kraków on the European Lisp Symposium! I love what you're doing! Do you have any updates on that water-filtering molecule you showed us then?
I am working with Julia migration from 0.5 to 0.7(beta) for a huge codebase, and currently contributing to the LibPQ.jl open source library that connects Julia to Postgres.
It was borne out of project need, but being able to help the open source project is very exciting for me.
And yes, gluing together libraries is part of the problem. How do you solve that problem. And no, your CS degree will not help you in the slightest.
The results are promising, that is: not ready for production yet by a long shot... but the kinds of things that I expected to work well in the "change as a primitive" world actually seem to work well.
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I admit that - given my life situation - I'm biased towards jobs that at least have a chance of also letting me put bread on the table ;). That said, I'm also having hard time separating academic work that helps things from that which just adds to the noise - grant-chasing, paper-generating studies. Any advice on that?
Any paper that generates or analyzes draft genomes is a waste of money.