> In other words, all the physicists pushing into the realm of the Silicon Valley engineer is a sign of a much bigger change to come.

So this article comes all the way to this. Is there data that hiring of physicists speeded up in the recent years? And why roles they are taken? Presumably not all in machine learning, if I have to guess.

Until then, this is another effort to turn an otherwise good interview into an unsubstantiated editorial aiming for nothing but hype.