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Bizarre move. AFAIK he does whatever he wants at MSR. Maybe he's sick of that environment's politics; maybe he's sick of academic research/the ICFP crowd and wa
by shrimpx 5y ago
Bizarre move. AFAIK he does whatever he wants at MSR. Maybe he's sick of that environment's politics; maybe he's sick of academic research/the ICFP crowd and wants to work on "real world" stuff. I can't imagine it's about money.
- mightybyte 5y agoNever underestimate the capacity of poor management for screwing things up.
- nickkell 5y agoI would’ve also assumed his job was perfect, but he’s the best judge of that! This is basically what Erik Meijer did isn’t it? He worked at Microsoft and produced some really nice things that had a big impact, like reactive extensions for example.
- shrimpx 5y agoYeah. Simon Marlow also left MSR years ago, for Facebook.
- twic 5y agoMSR is having pretty substantial layoffs at the moment. Some kind of substantial reorientation, with whole projects being shut down.
- nextos 5y agoYes, AFAIK they are setting up a major lab in Amsterdam on molecule design using deep generative models.
- tome 5y agoSee, for example, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/podcast/machine-learning-molecular-simulation-and-the-opportunity-for-societal-good-with-chris-bishop-and-max-welling/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/podcast/machine-lea...