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Interview subject here. AMA (but I'm on the road so replies might be delayed).
by lisper 3y ago
Interview subject here. AMA (but I'm on the road so replies might be delayed).
- mepian 3y agoWhat are you working on now?
- lisper 3y agoChip design tools at Intel. I didn’t go there by choice. I went to work for a startup that got acquired. And I have a couple of side projects I can tell you about if you’re interested.
- solanav 3y agoDo share them please!
- lisper 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37027284 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37027284
- rsecora 3y agoI'd love to hear more about your side projects if you wouldn't mind.
- lisper 3y agoI've started work on a book/blog (still haven't decided on the target medium) about how to apply the scientific method to everyday life. It's still very drafty, but if you want a sneak preview of the current state of things you can find it here: https://flownet.com/ron/TIKN/ https://flownet.com/ron/TIKN/ Feedback welcome. This is part of a more overarching effort to try to move the needle on climate change. I think one of the reasons it's such an intractable problem is that there is too much scientific ignorance out there, which supports an unjustified level of techno-optimism with regards to CO2 emissions. I'm also thinking about turning TIKN into a YouTube channel because that seems to be what the cool kids are doing nowadays. But I'd want to do this with a collaborator because maintaining a YT channel is a fucking boatload of work. If you know anyone who might be interested please send them my way. Not entirely unrelated (in fact, the reason I know how hard it is to make a good video)... something I did about 15 years ago that I'm still proud of despite the fact that it never got any traction is make a documentary film about homeless people: https://graceofgodmovie.com/ https://graceofgodmovie.com/
- 0xpgm 3y agoCurious if you're using Lisp for the chip design at Intel? If you're allowed to talk about that..
- lisper 3y agoYes we're using Lisp (specifically Allegro Common Lisp) and yes I can talk about it (within reason of course). Anything in particular you want to know?
- mepian 3y agoHow is your work affected by the end of the switching (Tofino) division, are there other users of Barefoot's tools inside the company? I hope I'm not asking anything confidential here.
- lisper 3y agoI'm actually not sure how much I can say about that in public. But if I'm reading your about page correctly you are also at Intel, yes? So if you want to ping me on Teams I can give you some more information.
- mblackstone 3y agoI wish Lisp at JPL had been an option for me. You might find my brief JPL experience interesting or amusing: http://www.castleknob.com/generation-zero-part-1/ http://www.castleknob.com/generation-zero-part-1/