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The most effective thing you can do as a software engineer is to contribute to applied machine learning research and implementation in bio/chemoinfomatics. Solv
by ampdepolymerase 5y ago
The most effective thing you can do as a software engineer is to contribute to applied machine learning research and implementation in bio/chemoinfomatics. Solve protein folding, and entire classes of such diseases would be curable. DeepMind has given computational biology its ImageNet moment, but there is still a large amount of room to improve for production level use (beyond merely as a research tool). Truly talented ML engineers willing to work on biology are very rare.
- carlmr 5y ago>Truly talented ML engineers willing to work on biology are very rare. I think it's mostly that in the biology space, at least in my country, they will be paid less than half of a software engineer's salary.
- elric 5y agoAnd they're often paid based on education level, which is pretty silly at the best of times. Many software engineers have no degree, if they want to work in academia/research labs, they're often unhirable.