Purpose in technology

October 26th 2024




Purpose in technology:

  1. Automating trivial tasks/making existing tasks easier:
    1. Physical: robotics
    2. Digital: software
  2. Automating knowledge work/making existing knowledge work easier:
    1. Converting real world data into structured/formal data: NLP
    2. Building models on that data: statistics/classical ML
    3. Reasoning/searching for solutions using the models and data: alpha go-type search
    4. Searching for data: NLP

Projects:

  1. Converting BERT to search engine: search is meaningful and I’m curious whether I can
  2. Operating system: automate dev work
  3. Robot: get back into that kind of work to see if I want to do my day job in it