Next thing we know, the Tea Party is going to start protesting APIs taking our jobs. EDIT: In seriousness, though, this is a good thing for ML PhDs like you (a

Next thing we know, the Tea Party is going to start protesting APIs taking our jobs. EDIT: In seriousness, though, this is a good thing for ML PhDs like you (and eventually me in a couple more years). Building the progress that's already been made in the field into easy-to-use APIs frees us up to work on the next steps. Now if they just released an Integer Linear Programming API that would give us access to their compute cloud...... :)