“Long-distance travel takes months or years because the specific impulse of chemical rocket engines is very low, so the craft takes a while to get up to speed,” she said. “But if we make thrusters based on magnetic reconnection, then we could conceivably complete long-distance missions in a shorter period of time.”
Katago is the leading opensource go AI program, and it is on track to beat Alphago. They need folks to lend their GPU's to compete with Deepmind's massive resource advantage.
Correct. Not trying to toot my own horn, but after 10 years of getting better each year, I am solid programmer. I literally just finished working on SoundTracking.
However, I have focused solely on programming the last 10 years, and I believe my focus depleted from other skills that are highly necessary to balance someone out: product development, winning friends and influencing people, sales, marketing, physical builds, the arts and humanities, entrepreneurship and finally understanding and gettings your hands deep and dirty into real business experience:construction, food and restaurants, medecine, education, finance, fashion, etc, etc.
My intention is to help others not go down such a narrow path as I have.
Reading the Steve Jobs biography really lit a fire under me.
As the author of this article, but without trying to sound too self promotional, I disagree. I was the only Android engineer on an app that is currently featured on the front page of http://market.android.com
Entrepreneurship is awesome. I have self generating, passive income from my personal Android apps and I respond to most customers emails personally.
As far as my skills on SoundTracking:
I already had 2 years of solid Android experience under my belt, and over the course of the project, I learned a shitload more about Android.
I made use of my teammates extensively.
I released early and often.
I managed to generate positive relationships with over 20 api partners to make this project happen.
I discovered new ways to make objected oriented abstractions work in Android.
Keep your skills sharp. Every product that has software has a purpose. Google is a search engine. Android is a phone and an app market. A good app has a clear purpose and is easy to use.
But, work on your social skills. An idea that is coded with someone else as a sounding board is generally stronger than an idea coded by someone sitting alone at a desk.
A team is a group of people that are greater than the sum of parts alone. A manager coordinates the team, keeps them on target, and brings out the magic that only good teams have. Can you have an orchestra without a conductor?...same goes for a team.
And I would rather keep up with new trends by hiring someone with those new skills than having to learn them myself. Call me lazy, but I call this entrepreneurial.
Studies have shown that the older you get, the more strategic your thinking becomes, but the less sharp your raw calculation power. Same reason the fields medal in mathematics is only awarded to those under 40.
One way to avoid these: say you are Jewish and leave work at sundown, Friday to observe the biblical day of rest. Christians can do this as well! Anyone can do this!
I actually am Jewish, so it works quite well! And I really enjoy my down time. I feel completely refreshed with a guaranteed day each week.
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If a "race" is good enough to harvest organs from, then this "race" must also be good enough to treat as equal and deserves full human rights under the UN bill of rights.