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Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Post by jfornear »

lliiffee wrote: post #58
maryrosecook wrote: post #12

http://theperceptron.com - astute music recommendations And a site where you create your audio autobiography by uploading mp3s. Hello, RIAA.

I got: Radiohead -> The Beach Boys You should remove that my any means necessary. I think the UI is pretty nice, actually. Very functional, feels like a "tool". Don't lose that when you make it more fancy.

I would disagree, Pet Sounds is one of the greatest, earliest experimental pop albums ever.

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Post by nostrademons »

Shamiq wrote: post #53
YuriNiyazov wrote: post #45

Working as a researcher on the DARPA URGENT project.

How can I get to do something similar? DARPA has all of the amazing stuff coming out of it...

A friend of mine's working on a bunch of DARPA projects, and his path was:

1. Attend a top liberal-arts college (CS, Amherst)

2. Get master's degree from top research university (HCI, Carnegie Mellon)

3. Work for General Dynamics

4. Stick around long enough to get promoted, kick butt, etc.

5. Profit!!!

BTW, he said that chances are, whatever the next big thing is will come out of DARPA. His bet was on pervasive computing - DARPA's apparently doing a lot with computers in clothes, computers in canteens, computers in backpacks, computers in visors, basically computers everywhere. The logic being that most of their troops are getting deployed to inhospitable environments (Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.) and if they can monitor environmental conditions for things like excessive heat, sandstorms, laser sniper sights, explosive residues, they can save lots of soldiers' lives. And of course, if it trickles down to consumer uses it could completely change how people use computers.

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Post by YuriNiyazov »

Shamiq wrote: post #53
YuriNiyazov wrote: post #45

Working as a researcher on the DARPA URGENT project.

How can I get to do something similar? DARPA has all of the amazing stuff coming out of it...

There are two basic paths:

1) A lot of large research companies get DARPA research grants. General Dynamics (like nostrademons said), HRL, Boeing, etc. etc. You can get a job with them, and if the environment doesn't feel soul-crushing to you, you are golden.

2) A lot of CS research at Universities is funded by DARPA. If you are still in school, or if you are out but still have close relationships with your professors, you can always find out what kind of projects they have. DARPA projects are especially nice because they are large in scope and there's always a need for extra people. Don't expect to be paid much though.

I chose route 2 - after my startup failed I wanted to do something that paid, was not as intense, and had nothing to do with Web 2.0 and Social Networking and all that, so I just e-mailed a professor.

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Post by kirubakaran »

fallentimes wrote: post #55
toby wrote: post #48

* Working on my second book for O'Reilly * Speaking about, and generally pushing for more interest in Open Data * Putting my entire life in a semantic graph: http://blog.kiwitobes.com/?p=73 * Trying to figure out what programmers can do about risk management failures

What was your first book?

'Programming Collective Intelligence'

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=210132

Thanks Toby. Awesome book.

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