Therein lies the problem with software. It’s common enough now that the lab scientists can write their own code. They may need a few dedicated programmers but most of the work is not writing the code. So instead we all keep optimizing news feeds.
Software launches and lands rockets. You think JPL just had a couple of rocket scientists writing some python scripts on the side for the perseverance mission?
But I agree Facebook has a ridiculous amount of engineering potential wasted on a pretty useless problem (serving ads even better!)
In my experience, there is quite a bit of untapped potential for applying engineering/cs/ml lessons in less traditional domains - not despite, but precisely because the other scientific disciplines are embracing and leveraging computation more.
I'm happy to elaborate on a more private channel, email/twitter is in the profile.
Source: Cofounded a startup in comp.bio space ~3.5 years ago, been busy supercharging our scientists and increasing pace of innovation and haven't really ran out of ideas yet.
throwaway1777|5 years ago
onethought|5 years ago
Software launches and lands rockets. You think JPL just had a couple of rocket scientists writing some python scripts on the side for the perseverance mission?
But I agree Facebook has a ridiculous amount of engineering potential wasted on a pretty useless problem (serving ads even better!)
tbabej|5 years ago
I'm happy to elaborate on a more private channel, email/twitter is in the profile.
Source: Cofounded a startup in comp.bio space ~3.5 years ago, been busy supercharging our scientists and increasing pace of innovation and haven't really ran out of ideas yet.