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From: mmcconnell17704 on 12 Jul 2006 14:07 The following appeared on Yahoo Groups' common-lisp mailing list. From: "blakesouthwood" <blakesouthwood(a)yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 22:55:28 -0000 Subject: [Common Lisp] job for lisp programmers We're looking for 4 lisp programmers. You must have several years of lisp programming experience. 25k for a 2 to 4 month project.Must sign NDA. You may telecommute. You must submit code to apply. Contact Blake Southwood at brashrhino(a)gmail.com
From: Zach Beane on 12 Jul 2006 14:27 mmcconnell17704(a)yahoo.com writes: > The following appeared on Yahoo Groups' common-lisp mailing list. > > From: "blakesouthwood" <blakesouthwood(a)yahoo.com> > Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 22:55:28 -0000 > Subject: [Common Lisp] job for lisp programmers > > We're looking for 4 lisp programmers. > You must have several years of lisp programming > experience. > > 25k for a 2 to 4 month project.Must sign NDA. > You may telecommute. > You must submit code to apply. > Contact Blake Southwood at brashrhino(a)gmail.com Here is some additional context: Name: Blake Southwood Email: brashrhino(a)gmail.com Idea: Algorithm Engine that generates 1 trillion algorithms per second (unique functions) on a SuperComputer. The Algorithm Engine uses A.I. and gets smarter with each new algorithm generated.This will work in tandem with a software structure viewer to manage the growing code base in 3D. The only way to describe this in simple terms is as the (MCP) Master Control Program in the Disney movie "Tron." Status: Still at concept stage. Have devised a way for it to work. Skills: Seeking HBS 2nd years and Software Engineers. And from craigslist: PLEASE ONLY APPLY IF YOU HAVE SEVERAL YEARS OF LISP PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE We just hired the lead for this project and he has a lifetime of programming experience and many years in real-world lisp application development. Also include what you have done with LISP and how long it took to code it. Further, explain your experience working on a team on a lisp project. This is going to be for a start-up company to prove a theory so that we can get funding. This is to demonstrate a fraction of what we plan on accomplishing. If you have an extensive background in Lisp programming and programming in C this project would be ideal for you. In terms of how you're going to get paid it'll be with a cashiers check after the project is completed. We're looking for some Lisp programmers to work on a summer project (July and August and possibly September and October). You must at a bear minimum have several years of experience programming in Lisp and a bachelors degree in CS. You must live in the Bay Area and be able to show your progress for Saturday morning meetings. You will be working with a team of up to 4 other Lisp programmers. If you're currently a grad student that's fine. The project involves creating a program that learns on it's own and at the same time the output from the program can be tweaked and it will learn new fuzzy logic rules from that. Sort of like chess but different. You can telecommute and we're looking for 4 Lisp programmers. Your progress will be checked in person weekly. You must bring your CS degrees and sample Lisp code to the interview which will be at Cafe Borrone in Menlo Park. You'll have to sign an NDA. TRON! Zach
From: Steven E. Harris on 12 Jul 2006 15:15 An ad on craigslist writes: > at a bear minimum Why, that sounds like a job for a Cub Scout. -- Steven E. Harris
From: Lisper on 13 Jul 2006 05:29 > Idea: Algorithm Engine that generates 1 trillion algorithms per second > (unique functions) on a SuperComputer. The Algorithm Engine uses > A.I. and gets smarter with each new algorithm generated. It is funny. Another try to build permetum mobile. To generate algorithm one should already have an algorithm, To replace initial algorithm with improved version initial algorithm should contain instructions about improved algorithm that is nonsense. Even genetic algorithms suffer from this restriction. Algorithmic self-programmed AI is very attractive mirage.
From: Ken Tilton on 13 Jul 2006 12:03
Lisper wrote: >> Idea: Algorithm Engine that generates 1 trillion algorithms per second >> (unique functions) on a SuperComputer. The Algorithm Engine uses >> A.I. and gets smarter with each new algorithm generated. > > > It is funny. Another try to build permetum mobile. To generate > algorithm one should already have an algorithm, To replace initial > algorithm with improved version initial algorithm should contain > instructions about improved algorithm that is nonsense. You are forgetting, there will be trillyuns and trillyuns of these. At a bear minimum. I was also worried about "you will be paid with a cashier's check at the end of the project". Cashier's check? Funny how something meant to sound reassuring can have the opposite effect. kt -- Cells: http://common-lisp.net/project/cells/ "I'll say I'm losing my grip, and it feels terrific." -- Smiling husband to scowling wife, New Yorker cartoon |