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I knew, or at least knew of, some of the vest guys as fathers of people I grew up with. As in any group it’s a mixed bag, but I feel pretty confident that none of them were missing their true calling in pushing forward the boundaries of our understanding of hidden markov models or getting speech recognition to work. We’ve used those kind of resources to free up people to, I don’t know sell whole life insurance policies or something. I’m sure there’s a sense it which it is efficient, like I said I’m not a centrally planned economy guy, but there does seem to be something off about it.

I mean there are computational cancer models that need to be written and optimized.




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