Are you me? I've been slowly getting into alpinism in the Sierras and looking into getting my p2 cert. (I'd love to combine the two...imagine climbing in the palisades then paragliding or base jumping off )
I regrettably spent my 20s in academia and now I'm in tech and actually afford these hobbies. I'd love to have kids but I'm pushing it off because as you mentioned, it seems selfish.
I'm thinking about a SEA climbing holiday during the winter. I'm eyeing Vietnam. Do you have any favorite locale?
Adding to the authors point; I think there's quite a bit of innovation through maintenance. Reducing the tech debt in existing infrastructure eg. education, transport, etc
I have a gut feeling that societal cohesiveness is somehow lost through 'profit-driven' maintenance.
yup, i noticed that when i saw the first commits; in fact i thought it was someone's pet project. however, when i read that first odenet paper, it's clear keeping track of the gradients is extremely useful.
I'm very familiar with the first paper, the second author was on my committee.
so what does a cloud migration at a biotech company mean?
is it sort of a standard orchestrator + warehouse/lakehouse + distributed compute + cicd tools stack?
yup, we used PME for non-bonded calculations in our simulations and to calculate things like electric potentials. I finished a biophysics phd back in 2020 and focused mainly on fluid flow.
anyone can write a contract to automate taking out a loan, investing it, and pulling out the money, develop exotic securities, and bespoke arbitration. anyone can do it regardless of credentials or connections; just a month of learning.
pretty darn cool to have unbridled access to a distributed computer.