stephen williams wvilignet jeff bone wrote recommendation bay overbought im longterm short bay wouldnt even think buying real estate bay area im renting plain simple id prefer house days spring didnt find anything reasonable rent area source work education various senses opportunity venture capital etc remains magical kingdom say aint salaries probably still depressed commute killer etc situation ill immune problems barring disaster kind except increased personal existential risk probably less say driving car id say prospective washington gig sounds intriguing doesnt satisfy child education issue though hard say done suit tie well usually avoid definitely great things dc area remains second favorite around place hand much work semimundane application technology invented elsewhere frequently distaste innovation general im much favor cs phds theyre generally less useful russells one guys one know actually still write code seems often ruin world needs another treatise typed lambda calculus novel concurrency mechanisms like needs hole head always write code although working way cold period brought many architecturelevel projects loosing coding skills definitely something avoid phd work involve lot code useful mba yet another jd thats beside point ai stanford mit cmu probably biggest exceptions rule gmu interesting perhaps theres kind multiagent economics ai thing might fly given pool advisors tap imho everybody else gets novelty multicore parallel programming thing weve known coming 20 years realizes erlang join picalculus wellspring next 700 intersection game theory economics practical game playing heterogeneous multiple agent systems stuff going become hot topic gmus ripe groundbreaking work area place outside hebrew university jerusalem yes theres guy leading econ department used ai among things could get somewhat although im quite ready full immersion econ wanted end wall street make money way interesting possibilities might make sense immediate choice however understand educational advice guy didnt patience finish undergrad im mostly selftaught except masters work go caught bug ijcaiaaaiiaai 2003 momentum masters know dubious worth average case im average concur ai stanfordmitcmu whole different thing see boom bubble coming probably two waves since moment stomach raw startup different path space get admitted fire ole grantproposalwriting grammar text generator feed bunch relevant things citeseer 1 fund w3c participation way write decent poker bot buy rack space anguilla fund way appears student stanford enough get member access w3c get taking ndp class nondegree program think 002 ymmv jb 1 start httpciteseeristpsueduzlotkin89negotiationhtml reserve right wrong indeed hope im wrong hope compiler writers actually make concurrent haskell practicality realworld systems would lovely argument explicit concurrency moot 10 years arguments highlevel languages like c use compilers 1980 haskell would take lot supereclipse something haskell fun haskell isnt right vehicle anyway language designers need get novelty generality monads come back earth realize uniqueness types way truly functional languages going make mainstream paul graham damned theres gained doubling productivity lower 90 increasing productivity elite 10 10 right answer simple fun clear semantically scalable powerful yet lot crap results pseudosolutions like old requirement ncr pascal functions 10 lines code try finding noncomplex complexity spread thousands functions files modules class hierarchies 20 deep blech sdw gcezqroonhpticom httpwwwhpticom per wvilignet httpsdwst stephen williams 7033719362c 7039950407fax 20147 aim sdw tue 05 aug 2008 221034 0400 fork w3c sponsor ai supercomputing phd program silicon valley