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Theres also Valve Software (read their lovely handbook! http://newcdn.flamehaus.com/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf http://newcdn.flamehaus.com/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.

Theres also Valve Software (read their lovely handbook! http://newcdn.flamehaus.com/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf http://newcdn.flamehaus.com/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf). They (to my knowledge) only hire folks who're at senior grade in terms of their skills. Also Valve software just generally sounds like an amazing work environment. aside/caveat: I'm aiming to create just such an organization (operationally structured a la Valve) in terms of caliber of folks in NYC with WellPosed. I'm settling for nothing less than having an organization dedicated to building tools/products meant to make innovation happen faster on our wee world. I'm starting with fixing machine learning / numerical computation, BUT done right, rather than automagic bullshit everyone in "big data" keeps jerking off to the press :) It looks like I'll be able to get things off the ground sans investors too (which is kinda key for what I want to do forever). Any NYC area senior grade awesome folks who like work broadly deep across math, cs, engineering things nicely and sane work expectations etc a la the organization referenced above, shoot me an email and chat, Please I'm working to create something special that I want to last forever, and I need the most amazing people on the planet to make it happen :) (pardon my reply turning self promoting, but I'm deadly serious about what i'm doing, and its exactly that sort of place i'm aiming to create) (also: your hypothetical lots of smart people not getting anything done is called a circle jerk, not a business that could successfully recruit amazing people and retain them.)

spitfire 14y ago
Ahem. Rather than automagic bullshit, could you just do machine learning which handles multiple data-types. That would be a big change for the ML crowd to have to deal with real world, multiple typed, dirty data. Earthshattering, I know. (Yes, we've already spoken by email. Best of luck on your adventures)
- carterschonwald 14y ago
  I said the other folks are doing automagic BS, :-) Yup, Thats one of the problems I'm solving "right" (or nearly so) in the basic alpha as it gets in shape. Thanks! Were you the unicorn email dude?

spitfire 14y ago

Ahem. Rather than automagic bullshit, could you just do machine learning which handles multiple data-types. That would be a big change for the ML crowd to have to deal with real world, multiple typed, dirty data. Earthshattering, I know. (Yes, we've already spoken by email. Best of luck on your adventures)

carterschonwald 14y ago
I said the other folks are doing automagic BS, :-) Yup, Thats one of the problems I'm solving "right" (or nearly so) in the basic alpha as it gets in shape. Thanks! Were you the unicorn email dude?