On a somewhat related note "like (private) github but for brains" is still #1 on my "let's pitch this to YC" list.
Export brain to cloud, import as needed (alzheimers and whatnot) + monetizable in multiple ways from simple backup and recovery base packages to licensing someone's brain for a day/weekend.

Yes I do work in AI

Here's a little update. You guys were right, it's gonna take a lot more than that one day to learn python. I did more tutorials, one of them being a bot to play some online sushi game. Now I'm also doing a project in Python.

I received three offers so far and decided to take one of them. None of them relate to machine learning or any other of the scientific stuff I learned throughout my Master's but I'm cool with it and am going to make the best of it. I took one at a small medical software company doing software engineering (or software development whatever you want to call it) for one of the medical applications they offer. We'll see how it goes.

Thanks for all your advice

Online sushi game...is that some online version of "Wok Star" by any chance? If so I'd be interested in a link to the tutorial

List of different tutorials I was going off of

The sushi tutorial

The sushi game

Hehasrisen,

Since you already found a job, this may not be the best advice until later. But have you looked at wolfram alpha? They do some pretty high level stuff, and it's been a great job for someone I know who is very high level oriented. Downside, he's in the middle of IL.

Mr. Wolfram seems like a strange dude and the argument over the 110 prove was pretty pathetic but they do work on cool stuff (and ANKOS is pretty fascinating..not finished yet though)

you are like the only other person I know who has read ANKOS. He's definitely a weird dude but I enjoyed that book. Unfortunately I don't have a copy of it anymore

Also the amazon reviews are entertaining

It's really fascinating and the whole 110-CA=Turing complete is still blowing my mind. I have no time at all to finish it but it's the kind of book that I need to reread very carefully and take notes...almost like a one year research project.

I think many people are put off by Wolfram and his somewhat grandios claims but if you just read it open minded there's some pretty cool ideas/inspiration.

Thanks man, just looked at their career website. Definitely some interesting stuff.

I saw him speak a few years ago. He definitely came off as very intense and a little weird, I couldn't help but respect him.

Do you guys think C++ is still good experience to gain these days? Or is C++ becoming less and less marketable. In other words, should one take a job writing a lot of C++ object oriented code.

C++ is mostly relevant in:
- High end games (i.e. not social, flash etc. pp but the stuff with engines)
- Anything involving math
- Anything that needs to max out resources (see 1 and 2)

I think for general OOP principles and "software architecture" I'd rather work with something else. You can probably improve OOP principles a lot faster with other languages that are less fiddly.

Disclaimer:
Haven't really used C++ in >3 years now

Thanks clowntable, makes sense... I love math!...