Shout out to my people at the Lister Hill Center (Bldg 38A)! I used to work at NCBI when I was graduate student at UMD, more than 25 years ago. Pub Med was jus

Shout out to my people at the Lister Hill Center (Bldg 38A)! I used to work at NCBI when I was graduate student at UMD, more than 25 years ago. Pub Med was just being invented. There was a thing called Medline (which had been a replacement to a thing called Medlars). The guy I worked for was an MD/PhD (math) who was publishing papers on document retrieval and natural language search. Absolutely brilliant man. There was (and I’m sure there still is) a tremendous group of great scientists there. It was mind blowing work for a kid right out of college. Two things that came out when I was there https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAST_(biotechnology) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAST_(biotechnology) and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spouge%27s_approximation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spouge%27s_approximation . The environment there, and how much the researchers loved there jobs almost made it seem like getting a PhD could be worth it. (That being said I imagine the staff researchers are not the people doing the Web UX.)