It's more straightforward to tax snapchats and facebooks some more and put the money into cancer research.

All that does is turn cancer research into a bad government investment rather than a bad private investment.

>Just having a 'compiler' will not change much about that understanding

The compiler is called "genetic engineering" and it's a 30 years old field. In particular genetic engineering allows you to knockout specific genes and observe the phenotype. This technique is commonly used on bacteria, plants and animals. There is an ongoing mouse knockout project, an attempt to study every mouse gene by turning it off. It is 50% complete so far. By the way, the experiments are performed mostly by hand.

>We're very far away from understanding how a particular DNA string relates to phenotypes.

This problem can be solved much faster with a large scale effort. Thousands of automated experiments can run in parallel while recording the phenotype of the animals (including results of behavioral tests) and storing it for later analysis. On this genotype->phenotype dataset one can train an ML model. Actually there is a company that is trying this approach (just ML part, without automated experiments) http://www.deepgenomics.com/

I doubt that one company will be enough, though. With serious funding there could be much more progress in this area. We could have a full knockout map of mouse genome in less than a decade if we really wanted.

It may not be the solution you expected, but you could try upwork. Pay can be decent and it allows you to live while traveling across exotic countries. I know a programmer that lives this digital nomad lifestyle.

yeah i've trying to find wonk on here too. thanks.

i know a guy too living like that, he make stock videos and he travelled around 10 countries in 2 years and he is in cambodia now. fantastic place. he said he want to stay there at least one year to discover more.

it's might be compelling to live a nomad life, it has extra effort to keep things tidy and clear. it's already hard thing to left everything about your behind, but maybe i'd consider living a nomad life few years later but first i need to find peace in my mind

I spent a few years as a nomad, also to get out of my country, but not for such extreme circumstances as yours, I just felt like it.

I am happy to share the ups and downs of it, and give you tips in how to keep it manageable, and how to keep working as a dev.

[find contact info in my profile]

Start with researching visa laws. H1B is a very common way to come into US for work. EU has alternatives. Note that these visa require BS degree. As to what to write in your resume there are much better guides online than anything I'd say.

i'm not sure about put my credentials in here, or should i ? listing my dev skills etc.

i never heard about that BS Degree requirement on visa's which i don't have. i dropped out from university, Bachelor of arts in the last year.damn!

Sadly, skills won't make any difference if you don't meet requirements for visa. You could take your time and get relevant degree though (anything CS related should work).

Also you can play DV lottery. It's a small chance (1.5%) but still larger than zero.

i already know that finding relocation jobs in US is hard and what you mentioned is a real deal breaker. then i'll take my chances in EU region or UAE etc.

The Moore's law has ended (doubling time has become longer than 2 years, and looks like 10nm-7nm will be the last manufacturing process for a long time). From now on we will see more special-purpose hardware.

special purpose hardware follows the same rules as Moore's law.

Last I checked, number of cores attached to large memory, on Intel chips, is still going up, and that's what affects throughput on embarassingly parallel jobs, which is what these are.

The same could be said about startups.

And it would be correct for them too.

Not sure anyone was ever disagreeing with that.

Yeah, but I think people generally 'get' that.

If I'd read this "pre-teen" (when the article said he started) I'm pretty sure I would have been like, "that's what I'm going to do".

I remember a friend and I had grandiose plans for a Harry Potter themed MMO. We never got past the 'loading' screen because, y'know, we were ~12 and having a loading screen seemed like a prior job to having anything to load..

Arable land is a particularly bad example of a justification for a 'fixed pie'. Highly developed countries such as the USA have upwards of eight times the crop yield per acre compared with developing countries, and yield appears to be increasing everywhere. In fact, yields are improving so much that the amount of land dedicated to crop production worldwide has already or will soon begin decreasing.

Server CPUs have >2x memory channels when compared to consumer CPUs. IBM Power CPUs show that it's possible to get even more memory bandwidth than in mainstream Xeons. Looks like low RAM bandwidth in consumer CPUs is a mostly artificial differentiator to discourage use of these parts in servers.

On the other hand there are HMC and HBM technologies that offer order of magnitude more bandwidth and several times less latency. They are already used in AMD gpus as well as in prototypes of Nvidia's pascal gpu and Intel's Knight's corner 60-core cpu http://www.theplatform.net/2015/03/25/more-knights-landing-x...

I hope HBM comes to consumer CPUs too, but with current lack of competition in the market it can take a long time.

If the PR is good this could create a positive public attitude towards life extension. You'd get more funding in the end.