It's more straightforward to tax snapchats and facebooks some more and put the money into cancer research.
Looks like I hit a nerve here, haven't I? Note that my advice is rational and completely unironic. It is rational to follow the clique if you want to succeed in tech. I act like that too.
>Just having a 'compiler' will not change much about that understanding The compiler is called "genetic engineering" and it's a 30 years old field. In particular genetic engineering allows you to knockout specific genes…
It may not be the solution you expected, but you could try upwork. Pay can be decent and it allows you to live while traveling across exotic countries. I know a programmer that lives this digital nomad lifestyle.
To use the YC/dev culture to your advantage you have to play your cards in a smart way. Make yourself a name (make a cool html5 website promoting yourself as a professional). Make trendy silly things in javascript, post…
Sadly, skills won't make any difference if you don't meet requirements for visa. You could take your time and get relevant degree though (anything CS related should work). Also you can play DV lottery. It's a small…
I doubt that anybody will help you here. This website is filled with affluent first-worlders (many of them ivy graduates) that live inside their silicon valley bubble. Their rent price is probably several times your…
Start with researching visa laws. H1B is a very common way to come into US for work. EU has alternatives. Note that these visa require BS degree. As to what to write in your resume there are much better guides online…
The Moore's law has ended (doubling time has become longer than 2 years, and looks like 10nm-7nm will be the last manufacturing process for a long time). From now on we will see more special-purpose hardware.
The same could be said about startups.
When the civilization is confined to one small planet while hitting the physical limits to growth, the fixed pie is a good analogy. There is fixed and diminishing amount of arable land to grow the wheat and apples. You…
Server CPUs have >2x memory channels when compared to consumer CPUs. IBM Power CPUs show that it's possible to get even more memory bandwidth than in mainstream Xeons. Looks like low RAM bandwidth in consumer CPUs is a…
If the PR is good this could create a positive public attitude towards life extension. You'd get more funding in the end.
If governments and FDAs of the developed world were more cooperative it wouldn't happen this way. Startups don't have a billion dollars for FDA trials.
There is a quite large database of genes that affect aging in model organisms: http://genomics.senescence.info/genes/stats.php In this database there are 126 mouse genes. It looks like (science funding) politics is the…
>In fact, there’s actually no such thing as big science; we should really be calling it big engineering. This is so true. Engineering is undervalued in comparison to science. It's easier to sell multi-billion project to…
>It's a really, really, really big sea of possibilities nowadays for developers. If you are in the silicon valley or at least in some 1st world country - sure, you have a lot of possibilities and ridiculously high pay.…
You can 3d print a relatively decent actuated humanoid arm: http://www.thingiverse.com/search/page:1?q=inmoov&sa= looks quite disruptive compared to your average web-mobile-whatever intangible.
The Diamond Age is a great book. Neal Stephenson is known for researching concepts he writes about, so the technology present in the setting is based on Drexler's thesis. I wouldn't call it "a dream" in a sense that…
If someone is interested in real technical description of molecular manufacturing, you may read Eric Drexler's "Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing and Computation". Most parts of this book can be read on…
The ribosome, DNA replication complex and ATP-synthase (and other complex enzymes) qualify as precise molecular manufacturing, if you relax the definition a little. Ribosomes are already being engineered, see expanded…
It is entirely possible http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5g33S0Gzo , but there is no market for a domestic robot. Not even for an AiBo. You see: poor people are accustomed to doing these chores by themselves, while the…
Given enough data and a good model (recurrent neural network can model arbitrary algorithms, for example) you can learn algorithmic regularities in data, including learning itself. There is a paper just about that:…
Small volume of mouse cortex is already successfully scanned at 3x3x20nm voxel resolution, with smallest synaptic details being visible http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(15)00824-7 The tool is called ATLUM. The…
If you want a hard science-fiction novel about digital humans you could read Greg Egan's Permutation City, it's a masterpiece.
It's more straightforward to tax snapchats and facebooks some more and put the money into cancer research.
Looks like I hit a nerve here, haven't I? Note that my advice is rational and completely unironic. It is rational to follow the clique if you want to succeed in tech. I act like that too.
>Just having a 'compiler' will not change much about that understanding The compiler is called "genetic engineering" and it's a 30 years old field. In particular genetic engineering allows you to knockout specific genes…
It may not be the solution you expected, but you could try upwork. Pay can be decent and it allows you to live while traveling across exotic countries. I know a programmer that lives this digital nomad lifestyle.
To use the YC/dev culture to your advantage you have to play your cards in a smart way. Make yourself a name (make a cool html5 website promoting yourself as a professional). Make trendy silly things in javascript, post…
Sadly, skills won't make any difference if you don't meet requirements for visa. You could take your time and get relevant degree though (anything CS related should work). Also you can play DV lottery. It's a small…
I doubt that anybody will help you here. This website is filled with affluent first-worlders (many of them ivy graduates) that live inside their silicon valley bubble. Their rent price is probably several times your…
Start with researching visa laws. H1B is a very common way to come into US for work. EU has alternatives. Note that these visa require BS degree. As to what to write in your resume there are much better guides online…
The Moore's law has ended (doubling time has become longer than 2 years, and looks like 10nm-7nm will be the last manufacturing process for a long time). From now on we will see more special-purpose hardware.
The same could be said about startups.
When the civilization is confined to one small planet while hitting the physical limits to growth, the fixed pie is a good analogy. There is fixed and diminishing amount of arable land to grow the wheat and apples. You…
Server CPUs have >2x memory channels when compared to consumer CPUs. IBM Power CPUs show that it's possible to get even more memory bandwidth than in mainstream Xeons. Looks like low RAM bandwidth in consumer CPUs is a…
If the PR is good this could create a positive public attitude towards life extension. You'd get more funding in the end.
If governments and FDAs of the developed world were more cooperative it wouldn't happen this way. Startups don't have a billion dollars for FDA trials.
There is a quite large database of genes that affect aging in model organisms: http://genomics.senescence.info/genes/stats.php In this database there are 126 mouse genes. It looks like (science funding) politics is the…
>In fact, there’s actually no such thing as big science; we should really be calling it big engineering. This is so true. Engineering is undervalued in comparison to science. It's easier to sell multi-billion project to…
>It's a really, really, really big sea of possibilities nowadays for developers. If you are in the silicon valley or at least in some 1st world country - sure, you have a lot of possibilities and ridiculously high pay.…
You can 3d print a relatively decent actuated humanoid arm: http://www.thingiverse.com/search/page:1?q=inmoov&sa= looks quite disruptive compared to your average web-mobile-whatever intangible.
The Diamond Age is a great book. Neal Stephenson is known for researching concepts he writes about, so the technology present in the setting is based on Drexler's thesis. I wouldn't call it "a dream" in a sense that…
If someone is interested in real technical description of molecular manufacturing, you may read Eric Drexler's "Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing and Computation". Most parts of this book can be read on…
The ribosome, DNA replication complex and ATP-synthase (and other complex enzymes) qualify as precise molecular manufacturing, if you relax the definition a little. Ribosomes are already being engineered, see expanded…
It is entirely possible http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5g33S0Gzo , but there is no market for a domestic robot. Not even for an AiBo. You see: poor people are accustomed to doing these chores by themselves, while the…
Given enough data and a good model (recurrent neural network can model arbitrary algorithms, for example) you can learn algorithmic regularities in data, including learning itself. There is a paper just about that:…
Small volume of mouse cortex is already successfully scanned at 3x3x20nm voxel resolution, with smallest synaptic details being visible http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(15)00824-7 The tool is called ATLUM. The…
If you want a hard science-fiction novel about digital humans you could read Greg Egan's Permutation City, it's a masterpiece.