131 karma · joined June 23, 2015
But if I could have any job in the world, it'd be what I spend every other hour not on shift doing, and that's programming and solving problems.
A while back I recall reading rumors that China didn't even know what to process on their Tianhe-2. That kind of makes a supercomputer look like a pile of hardware, no matter how well it's organized or engraved.
The thing that gets me is that we look around and the campuses have millions to put up for new buildings and infrastructure and sports, etc. But here they can't give my mother a full time job with benefits.
Education is nothing more than an industry. They don't care if I pass or succeed, as long as they've got a job at the end of the day. I'm convinced of that.
What I took away was that becoming immortal in text, in the minds of following generations, is every literary scholar's, or scholars', dream in general. We all want to matter. We don't want to be caught up in useless things, unless being immortal doesn't matter to you.