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From: "blakesouthwood" <··············@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 ··········@gmail.com
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> The following appeared on Yahoo Groups' common-lisp mailing list.
>
> From: "blakesouthwood" <··············@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 ··········@gmail.com
Here is some additional context:
Name: Blake Southwood
Email: ··········@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
> 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.
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
Ken Tilton wrote:
> end of the project". Cashier's check? Funny how something meant to sound
> reassuring can have the opposite effect.
I think it's more the "the end of the project" than the "cashiers check"
there. :-) "We'll pay you cash, as soon as the machine can think!"
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
This octopus isn't tasty. Too many
tentacles, not enough chops.
Darren New wrote:
> Ken Tilton wrote:
>
>> end of the project". Cashier's check? Funny how something meant to
>> sound reassuring can have the opposite effect.
>
>
> I think it's more the "the end of the project" than the "cashiers check"
> there. :-) "We'll pay you cash, as soon as the machine can think!"
>
Good point. But the project schedule says "one summer". Think they are
off just a hair? At least they know enough not to combine AI and winter.
This reminds me of the NYC cabby who accepted a fare to Chicago. When
they got there and could not find the friend who was supposed to pay the
fare he just laughed and said he should have known.
kenny
--
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