Purpose in technology:
- Automating trivial tasks/making existing tasks easier:
- Physical: robotics
- Digital: software
- Automating knowledge work/making existing knowledge work easier:
- Converting real world data into structured/formal data: NLP
- Building models on that data: statistics/classical ML
- Reasoning/searching for solutions using the models and data: alpha go-type search
- Searching for data: NLP
Projects:
- Converting BERT to search engine: search is meaningful and I’m curious whether I can
- Operating system: automate dev work
- Robot: get back into that kind of work to see if I want to do my day job in it