[ExI] self driving truck

[John Clark]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016  David Lubkin <lubkin at unreasonable.com> wrote:

​> ​
> I spent many years acquiring prowess in (among other skills) precision
> programming. Squeezing a flagon of performance out of a shot glass. Then no
> one cared about saving space or time. Just throw more compute power at the
> problem. And it did make sense. People-time cost more than hardware. But it
> doesn't always. Especially as you go either bigger (exabyte analysis,
> trillion device networks) or smaller (molecular-scale computing) in your
> problem domain, you need people who appreciate bit tricks, instruction
> timing, etc. And most who know this stuff have left the field.
>

​There is a article about this in today's New York Times, your engineering
skills may not be as obsolete as you think: ​

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/technology/beyond-silicon-squeezing-more-out-of-chips.html?ref=business

​John K Clark​
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