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Google hires devs to develop similar libraries... to power their machine learning efforts. There is tons of numerical work in finance, too. I don't think the mo
by santaclaus 9y ago
Google hires devs to develop similar libraries... to power their machine learning efforts. There is tons of numerical work in finance, too. I don't think the money is to be made by selling copies of a Matlab-like piece of software, but in the application of the tools.
- shoyer 9y agoThis is spot on. There are plenty of jobs applying open source technologies, but far fewer building those libraries themselves. (I'm NumPy dev who works at Google on machine learning.)
- eximius 9y agoReally? This is somewhat surprising to me. How has Grumpy impacted your work / numerical computing in Python at Google?
- shoyer 9y agoI haven't used Grumpy at all, and unless it starts supporting C extension modules like NumPy I doubt I ever will. Google's numerical computing / machine learning stack (e.g., TensorFlow) is based on Python/C++.
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- kevin_thibedeau 9y agoBut you have to run through their interview gauntlet.
- mianos 9y agoAnd their decimation.
- dagw 9y agoEven if you get head hunted?
- kevin_thibedeau 9y agoKen Thompson didn't (still doesn't ?) have commit access because he hasn't been vetted by Google as a competent C programmer. I don't think Google is going to relax its hiring policies no matter who you are.