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Yes. The particular position was related to Video Compression. There are maybe 10 people in the whole world at my level in that space. We each have slightly dif
by drakaal 13y ago
Yes. The particular position was related to Video Compression. There are maybe 10 people in the whole world at my level in that space. We each have slightly different skill sets, so I will say "same" level. There are probably 50 in the world that are comparable in that they have enough working knowledge to know where to look something up to do 90% of what the top 10 can do.
Most of those have a PhD but in the top 10, myself and one other have no degree, 2 have art degrees (film stuff).
In the top 50 few have masters, 2 don't even have highschool diplomas.
- ars_technician 13y ago>There are maybe 10 people in the whole world at my level in that space. This is highly unlikely. It's more like 10 people that you know of. Less than 1/3 of the world speaks English. Some advanced video firm in China that has no interest in participating in US standards bodies could very easily have more people with your skills.
- drakaal 13y agoIf you are trying to build something that is compliant with the various standards, the best people are the people who wrote the standards. There are about 10 of us who have been on enough of the standards bodies that we know all the ambiguities and how they are meant to be interpreted. There is no guy standing around in China who was spying on those meetings and therefore knows more about them than we do. And many of the people on that list are not English speakers. Math is the primary language. Do you know what Chinese for discrete cosine transform is? Discrete cosine transform. Hebrew for Deinterlace? Deinterlace.