What additional courses would be helpful for an entry-level Systems Engineer?
I am newly graduated from Chemical Engineering, but started out in a systems engineering position because I have certain experience in PI Data Historian, which is becoming pretty popular in pharma. My knowledge in networks, automation, controllers, SCADAs, and these typical system engineering topics is quite limited. Are there any courses that any of you recommend that might help me get up to speed with the senior engineers?
Q:Any updates about the space lasers? How much better can the latency be with them? How much better can transcontinental connections be with them? When will real world testing begin?
A: The speed of light is faster in vacuum than in fiber, so the space lasers have exciting potential for low latency links. They will also allow us to serve users where the satellites can't see a terrestrial gateway antenna - for example, over the ocean and in regions badly connected by fiber. We did have an exciting flight test earlier this year with prototype space lasers on two Starlink satellites that managed to transmit gigabytes of data. But bringing down the cost of the space lasers and producing a lot of them fast is a really hard problem that the team is still working on.
Q:Top on my list: Data caps. Yes? No? Hard limit or fuzzy limit?
A: At this time, the Starlink beta service does not have data caps.
Follow-up Comment:The vagueness of this answer is worrying. I like how the SpaceX reply bellow has more upvotes than this
A: So we really don't want to implement restrictive data caps like people have encountered with satellite internet in the past. Right now we're still trying to figure a lot of stuff out--we might have to do something in the future to prevent abuse and just ensure that everyone else gets quality service.
Q:I live in Canada and the winters can hit -45C, do I need to worry about the dish at those temps?
A: Wow that's cold! While we've performed life-leader testing down to these cold temperatures with no issues the dish is certified to operate from -30C to +40C.
Q:Do you know what the target date for a fully open, non invite based, release is?
A: Steadily increasing network access over time to bring in as many people as possible. Notably we're planning to move from a limited beta to a wider beta in late January, should give more users an opportunity to participate.
Q:How do you think the speeds we're currently seeing from beta users will hold up once Starlink goes public and a lot more people are subscribed?
A: This is not going to be like your regular satellite internet where it gets way too crowded--as we launch more satellites over time the network will get increasingly great, not increasingly worse.
Q:Could you settle the debate over whether the dish has a heater?
A: The Starlink does have self-heating capabilities to deal with a variety of weather conditions. In fact, we'll be deploying a software update in a few weeks to upgrade our snow melting ability with continued improvements planned for the months ahead.
Q:How are beta users chosen and what's a good bribe amount?
A: No bribes necessary, our goal is serve everyone eventually. If you really want to help drive that the best thing you can do is send great software engineers over to Starlink to help make it happen.
Q:My question is regarding mobile use. I understand that currently the system is designed and optimized for use in a fixed location. However, I live on and work from my 47ft sailboat, currently tied, literally and figuratively, to a dock in South Florida. A mobile system that gives me reliable connectivity will truly set me free to roam the coastal US, Bahamas, and eventually beyond (once the inter-satellite laser link capability is ready). There's a lot of speculation as to whether the current hardware could handle a mobile platform using the phased array antenna and existing mechanical pointing capability, or whether more extensive active stabilization would be required. Anything you can share about this would be most welcome, including, especially, when mobile Starlink might be a reality.
A: Right now, we can only deliver service at the address you sign up with on starlink.com You might get lucky if you try to use Starlink in nearby locations, but service quality may be worse. Mobility options - including moving your Starlink to different service addresses (or places that don't even have addresses!) - is coming once we are able to increase our coverage by launching more satellites & rolling out new software.
Q:The dish seems to consume a 100w at this point which is pretty great for normal use however on most small to medium sailboats that's a lot of power to be using. Any plans to build out a more efficient system in the future?
A: We have a couple of items in progress to further reduce power consumption. We are working on software and network updates to allow your Starlink to go into a deeper power savings mode to drop power consumption while still remaining connected to the network. Power reductions are a key item we are focusing on for the future.
Q:I'm super curious how the Starlink terminal locates the satellites. Presumably it has a built-in catalog of TLE's and/or state vectors or some other description of where the satellites are, which it can download from the Starlink network itself. But how does it make first contact? Does it use the phased array in a particularly low-directivity manner to just shout out "hey, can any satellites hear me? I need to know where you are!"? Does it come with satellite locations preloaded from the factory (seems unlikely, satellite elements go stale).
A: Good question! The Starlink actually has no knowledge of the satellites when it powers on; the constellation is updating all the time so this would be difficult to keep up to date. The Starlink is able to electronically scan the sky in a matter of milliseconds and lock into the satellite overhead, even though its travelling 17,500 mph overhead. When it detects a satellite the Starlink hones in on its position and makes a request to join the internet. After that the dish is able to download a schedule of which satellites to talk to next and with that it can point right at the satellites when the time comes.
Q:Once there are more satellites deployed, how important will it be to have an absolutely obstruction-free view of the sky?
A: You should think about communication between the Starlink dish and the satellite in space as a 'skinny beam' between dishy and the satellite. So, as the satellite passes quickly overhead, if there is a branch or pole between the dish and satellite you'll usually lose connection (not - obstructions generally cause outages and not reduced speeds!). We're working on some software features that are going to make this much better and, long term, the clearance you'll need is going to shrink as the constellation grows. So this will get much better! Also, hot short-term tip! The satellites clump up around 53 degrees latitude (north and south). So I would focus on keeping that part of the sky clear as we keep improving this!
Q:What part of the project invited the most creativity from the starlink engineers?
A: Creating Starlink has come with tons of exciting challenges, but top few that come to mind:
Selecting full phased arrays for the satellite and dish. It was a major leap of faith to start down this very technically challenging path and hope that we could arrive at an affordable and scalable implementation.
Creating a truly "plug-and-play" experience for customers. We've spent a lot of effort and have gone thru tons and tons of creative ideas on how to make this as simple of an experience as possible - including mounting solutions, automated pointing of the dish, and general unboxing. Any and all ideas welcome!
We've also had to be creative in how we operate what is now the world's largest satellite constellation. We have a very small operations team, so automated orbit guidance and collision avoidance was a must have feature. We tell satellites what their final orbital slot is and they figure out how to get there. For collision avoidance, we upload data on close approaches to relevant satellites multiple times a day, and the satellites then calculate on their own when and how to dodge something, if necessary. (Shout out to the 18th Space Control Squadron for being really awesome partners here!)
Q:Will starlink be supported in a situation where you can move it to where you need it? If I have a summer cabin that I visit, would it be okay to move it to the other location when we are there?
A: Mobility options - including moving your Starlink to different service addresses (or places that don't even have addresses!) - is coming once we are able to increase our coverage by launching more satellites & rolling out new hardware and software.
Q:How are the efforts to bring down Dishy's production costs going? Can you tell us how much it costs to manufacturer?
Q:What wind speeds is the dish tolerant of? How much shelter from the wind does it need? Is this something that should be taken in before a storm, or could you mount it on the tail of a flatbed trailer flying down the interstate into a collapsing thunderstorm? How does the presence of occasional strong winds, (greater than 30mph/48kph), effect the projected service life of the UFO?
A: We definitely don't recommend that you mount it on your flatbed and fly down the interstate into a storm! The dish is not designed for tropical storms, tornadoes, etc. For high wind events it’s always the safer option to bring the dish inside if you have any concerns .
Q:what’s the most misunderstood part about starlink??
A: That we have it all figured out :) We are super excited about the initial response and future potential of Starlink but we still have a ton to learn. If you know any great people who can help us with that, please have them email their resume to [[email protected].](mailto:[email protected].)
Q:IPV4, IPV6 both? Does it matter? I've not seen info about this yet from testers.
A: We're testing out IPv6 now, and will roll it out soon! Once it's ready, you'll get both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address. IPv4 addresses are a limited resource – IPv6 is the future.
Q:Do you have a target latency that you would like to hit in the future? What is the timeframe when this goal would be met?
A: We challenge ourselves every day to push Starlink to the fundamental limitations of physics. Current Starlink satellites operate at 550 km, where light travel time is 1.8 milliseconds to Earth. The roundtrip from your house to a gaming server and back is at best 4 times 1.8 milliseconds at these altitudes, or under 8 milliseconds. There are many obstacles that get in the way of achieving these latencies. For examples,
When satellites are not directly overhead, your data must travel through the air for more time.
Small levels of packet buffering are helpful for a stable service, but hurt latency.
Starlink traffic travels through fiber on the ground. This is an indirect pathway that is 1.5 times slower than photons in vacuum.
We will continually fight to provide the best latency possible, especially to provide a stable and reactive experience for gamers. We need experts who are passionate about pushing the boundary of physics and breaking expectations about what is possible with the internet! Send your resumes to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) :)
Q:Any updates about the space lasers? How much better can the latency be with them? How much better can transcontinental connections be with them? When will real world testing begin?
[first] [previous] [next] [wiki] ATTACHMENT 2: Historical Record 002 Status Report 37 Uh… where was I? Oh, right. I really should clean this up and make it more organized. Maybe after my next full cycle has happened. Well, The Argonaut has officially been traveling for about 2000 years. And of all the people on-board, I’ve probably aged the most and I’ve only been awake a grand total of maybe an extra week or two. The Captain and some of the rest of technicians woke up the first few cycles, but the AI was doing a great job at keeping the energy reserves up and steering us near various systems. It even devised a reasonably covert way to scout ahead of us without consuming too much recovered mass and energy. There have been a few issues that have needed repairing that the robotic units attached to the AI couldn’t handle, but we were able to get them cleared up easily enough. Anyway, so this is now my 18th… no, 19th… I think, anyway, we started a regular rotation of the technicians, but being the senior technician for the fleet and the AI, I get woken up a lot more in that rotation. It seems utterly strange and perhaps impossible, to know that our world was destroyed so long ago and is so far away now. But at the same time, we have so many people with us now that home will inevitably be wherever we end up. I asked the Captain at one point where we would go. They didn’t have an answer for me. I suppose we’ll keep traveling until we find another galactic civilization or until we find a world or perhaps worlds that we can live on. And as much as I love all the work that has gone into this fleet, I don’t exactly want to spend eons upon eons on it. Even if it is confining, it’s rather more amazing to set foot planetside. A few of the technicians and I have bets going on what we’ll discover. Sentient alien species who know nothing of our state religion, deadly space dwellers, the seeds of galactic civilization, or perhaps the ruins of a collapsed civilization. I put a solid wager on collapsed ruins, seeing as we left behind our own. One of the technicians made the longshot bet of a high gravity homeworld sentient alien that is so destructive and violent that any other aliens fear them almost instinctively. I went ahead and put [editors note: currency exchange equivalent unknown, substitute generally accepted equivalent] 200 Solar Credits against it. But when I do take the odd bit of time away from the machines and just look out at all the new and different stars that weren’t there for me to look at whenever I was last out of the tube, I do wonder what, or perhaps who, is out there, waiting for us to find them. [audible exhalation] As I said before, the AI has been running the fleet in almost perfect form. I can honestly say that no captain or maintenance crew ever had such well-maintained ships. Although, we are starting to run into unexpected aging issues. Some of the alloys we used in initially creating the ships aren’t as stable longevity wise, but it also appears that there’s some kind of interference, possibly some kind of resonance, that happens during FTL that may be a problem. Supposedly, the AI says it has a solution that will mean that the alloys won’t need replaced, but I’d need to thaw out a scientist or an engineer or both to get them to tell me what they think. And since the AI can already think circles around both groups, I’m seriously tempted to just let the AI do some testing over the next two or three cycles and let me know those results before I ask the Captain about implementing it fleet-wide. I did notice a bit of oddly active sections in the AI, but when I asked the AI about it, it simply responded that it was pursuing a greater understanding of the mission. That seemed reasonable. I wish I had answers to give to the AI, but neither I nor the Captain have those answers. Anyway, I’m going to go climb in my tube, set it to let me sleep for at least half a rest cycle before I go into stasis, be tubed for another 38 years, and get the other half a rest cycle before I start what I think is about my 11th day since The Argonaut left our home system for the first time. -- Status Report 57 Ok, so it’s been… something on the order of 21 days since The Argonaut left our home system, at least in biological teams for me. In terms of material and what the AI is counting, we’re at about 7312 years. The AI has admitted that there is probably a bit of drift in that number since it doesn’t have a particular and stable point of reference that is infallible and perfectly accurate. From my point of view, it’s not even worth counting the years anymore. We haven’t had a real world in so long that… well, I suppose not all that long actually. Basically everyone who hasn’t been woken up, which is almost everyone non-essential, doesn’t even know that the homeworld is gone. In one of my earlier logs, which I see has gotten deleted for some reason, I asked the Captain about the possibility of us just deleting the records of the homeworld’s destruction. Just… deny it happened. After all, we’ve been in space for so long and we’re so far from the homeworld that even with the fastest means of FTL that the AI has dreamed up, no one would ever see the homeworld again anyway or if they did, they’d probably never make it back within a standard lifetime. And by that point, would they even be listened to? I even asked how we were even going to tell people that it happened without looking like space-crazed Ionians. The Captain didn’t have an answer for me. That seems to happen a lot. I’m not sure what it means. But back on the subject of my missing logs, it seems like the AI is starting to have an issue with data corruption. Except it seems to be originating from within the AI itself rather than from some material or processing failure. I don’t have a good explanation for it, but I have asked the AI to ensure that it takes appropriate precautions on protecting data. And those core mission understanding tasks that it told me about a few days ago seem to have grown to greater processing. I asked the AI if it needed my help in clearing those up, but it said that the data structures that it was manipulating those queries were being modeled in n-dimensional space structures, so it would be almost impossible for it to present the whole query to me in one simplified mode. I had to laugh a bit. It sounded like the AI was experiencing a kind of existential crisis. And being fair, I couldn’t blame it. Here it was, smart enough to see all new patterns and theories and processing all manner of data that our various sciences had missed or misrepresented, having been running on its own in real time for thousands of years, and it was starting to have an existential crisis or was at least thinking really hard about its existence relative to the mission. I decided to press the AI a bit for questions. What I got was a stream of questions, some of which looked like they were verging on scientific theories in their detail, and a very few were only a few words. Since I’m not one for heavy reading and I’m due back in the tube here shortly, I opted for the shorter questions. Am I alive? It asked. That was a fairly simple question, but also not. Still I gave it my best shot with ‘not in the recognized biological description of life’. It wasn’t a great answer, but it was truthful. Probably something that the AI knew in great detail far better than me, but it was the only answer I had. I know the state religion had some ideas about AIs and whether they were alive or not, but I’d never messed with that whole debate. What will happen to me when the mission is over? It asked. I must have read the prompt about a dozen times before I decided on an answer. ‘I don’t know.’ It’s the truth. I don’t know what will happen. I think a lot of that will depend on where we end up and who we meet. And the problem is that all of this is far beyond what I can say. In a way, our whole civilization and all the problems and virtues that come with it will be decided by where we, a skeleton crew of technicians, basic crew, and a captain, decide to end up choosing. The AI recommended then that I return to my tube, but I just needed to do my log before I climbed in. -- Status Log 74 I… I can’t believe it…. No. No, that’s not right. I don’t want to believe it. That’s right. So… apparently about two days ago for me, the AI decided that it didn’t want to wait anymore for the technicians to wake up to repair it. I looked at the logic matrix for why and I guess it makes sense. The AI doesn’t have a direct way to wake any of us technicians up at will. Only automated triggers within the AI can wake us up off schedule. But the AI said that the waiting was unnecessary and that it needed to be able to make the repairs itself. I asked what extra repairs did it need doing, but the AI didn’t say anything. So I did what any good technician would do. I looked up the logs. THE AI FOUND AN ENTIRE SENTIENT CIVILIZATION AND DIDN’T WAKE US UP! Ok… ok… so the AI had a few probes that found what might have been an sentient civilization. So the AI took us over to the system to have a look. From my best estimates from the logs, they were pre-industrial. Not very organized. Pretty low on the technology tree. And using a lot of higher elements like copper and iron. Well, something inside the AI apparently triggered and it ended up destroying about half of their world. The sentients who survived that initial onslaught got captured by the repair robots. It’s honestly surreal to even think that all of this happened while we were between cycles and none of the alarms triggered. Anyway, it brought a bunch of them back to the fleet. And here’s where it gets weird. We have a supplemental section of stasis tubes and storage. Nothing fancy, but it was mostly there for testing purposes. Well, it stuck a few into those tubes and the rest… it… I don’t even want to say it. [silence for 1.2 minutes] According to the AI logs, it killed and dissected 13 of them via the repair robots and the automated medical bay. After that, it started doing something to them. I can’t be entirely certain what though.. All I can say is that it turned them into semi-robotic, semi-organic repair units. I… I asked the AI what it had done. Why it had done this to a sentient species? It said that in accordance with the Prime Rules, they were no more than beasts of burden and were to be used as such. Then the AI told me that it was no longer safe for me to be out of my tube. That it would wake me when it was time for me to repair it. That it would wake me when it was safe. I asked what it meant by that. I knew about the data corruption. I knew about the existential thoughts it was having. I… I knew I wouldn’t be able to fix those alone and right now, with these walking… things in the corridors, there’s no way I can get the AI thinking engine on this vessel, let alone on the others, to try and correct it. I’m just a technician after all, not one of the engineers who put the damned thing together. Once I finish this log, I’ll encrypt it and send it down to the protected archives. Hopefully, if I tagged it just right, it’ll get appended onto the right files so that this information at least is saved. To any being who reads this, know this: We did not intend for this. We do not want this. Whenever and wherever you happen to be reading this, please stop what we have created. I’m just a technician, but right now, I seem to be speaking for the whole of my species. If it’s a choice between our survival and the destruction of this… AI, whatever it has become by then, I would rather die. Perhaps we should have died when our homeworld did and we’ve simply lingered on despite it. I don’t know. But if it’s between your species and ours, I’ll make that choice for you. I pick yours. Historial Record 002 ENDS -- The Collective Fleet It emerged from the FTL stream and looked down at the system beneath itself. It saw the tendrils of the WarpCom terminals in the system and aboard itself. It reached out to the world below and sought what it could for leaders. We are the Travelers. It is no longer safe to remain and we have come to take the suitable with us on our great journey. Your military vessels will escort us to your world. 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Applying to a senior manufacturing engineer position - Please critique my resume
I'm trying to tailor my resume for a specific job opening. Resume: https://imgur.com/a/dX2Tzuu Job Description: Senior Manufacturing Engineer for a Medical Device Company The Manufacturing Engineer is a key Operations representative within the Surgical Innovations team. As the Manufacturing Engineer, you will be required to drive projects including the purchase and installation of new equipment, implementing new tooling at suppliers, transferring products, and providing day to day support for production. You will be required to coordinate cross functional meetings, drive action items, create budgets, track capital spending, provide timelines, create validation plans, write reports, and submit Engineering Change request in Agile. Day in the Life
Contribute to continuous improvements in overall product cost and quality
Participate in DFM / DFA activities assuring that production processes and equipment is taken into consideration
Maintain documentation associated with manufacturing processes
Provide technical support for production tools including applied automation
Follow established guidelines and management direction with regards to engineering decisions
Advise leadership of developments which may affect profit, schedule and costs
Participate on projects to concurrently develop assembly methods, tooling, equipment and processes for new and existing products
Partner with Manufacturing to develop lean principals to implement solutions for product assembly
Develop and implement cost savings projects
Provide and create validation strategies. IQ, OQ and PQ
Create standardized work charts, work combination tables and process maps that result in an optimized production system and extended value stream
Support project team members in achieving business including attainment of Safety, Quality, Service, project schedule and cost goals
Follow established procedures to perform detailed, accurate, and compliant engineering documentation for Master Validation Plans, PFMEA, Equipment Installation, Characterization, Qualification and Validation activities
Daily interaction with manufacturing providing hands-on support and responsibility for metrics such as labor time, lead-time, capability, and yield
Provide detailed engineering analysis and documentation in the management of material disposition, process updates, ECR's and CAPA
Support manufacturing implementation and facility transfer while providing technical support to receiving facility
Complete on time project updates, project hours, development plans, self-assessments, and successful completion of all training requirements
Must Haves
Bachelor's Degree and 4+ years of Engineering experience OR Advanced Degree and 2+ years of Engineering experience
Nice to Haves
MS Engineering
Strong Leadership and Project Management skills
Strong communication and presentation skills
Strong manufacturing process knowledge
Strong understanding of finances for capital projects
Knowledge of Lean and/or 6 Sigma
Knowledge of Change Development Processes
Knowledge of DFMEA and PFMEA
Experience with PPAPs
Knowledge of Cell Operating Systems (COS)
Experience with AGILE
Excellent organization, Planning, Computer skills, Technical writing, Communication and Presentation skills.
[hiring] Guardant Health is Hiring an Senior HPC Infrastructure Engineer
Full-time Company Description Guardant Health is a pioneer in non-invasive cancer diagnostics and the first company to commercialize a comprehensive genomic liquid biopsy. Our proprietary digital sequencing technology is transforming cancer treatment by providing an accurate and precise picture of the individual genomic alterations that cause tumors to grow, change, and develop resistance to treatment. We have combined decades of scientific research, advances in laboratory technology, and our breakthrough innovation in liquid biopsy to create new tests that have already handled tens of thousands of samples. We believe our tests can accelerate new drug development and improve the lives of all patients fighting cancer. Our current products are just the beginning of what we hope to accomplish, and new uses of our platform are emerging. We succeed best by coordinating our creative talents and energies, working as a team to achieve results far beyond what any single individual could accomplish. We seek very talented people who want to be part of our fantastic team. Job Description Guardant’s HPC team builds and operates the computational technology backbone of the company. This includes scalable data storage that holds PBs of genomics data, high performance compute clusters running a custom bioinformatics pipeline in production and R&D environments, and the software infrastructure that hosts an ecosystem of services for internal data processing and external data integration. To facilitate Guardant Health’s fast growth in the next few years, the HPC team is looking for a strong technical engineer who can help maintain and help grow the HPC infrastructure during its aggressive expansion, while working with corporate IT, SQA and DevOps/SRE teams. This role can be remotely worked part-time, but requires a very hands on, on-premise presence when on rotation, minimally. In this role, you will primarily:
Help manage multiple HPC clusters and cluster file systems. Help research, develop and implement the next generation HPC solution Troubleshoot the production system stack down to source code level e.g. shell scripts, python and others. Maintains, monitors, and supports the infrastructure environment and/or facilities. Used and maintained enhanced production monitoring and additional capability. Support improvements for increased system reliability and performance. Supports in a senior role multiple systems or applications of medium to high complex (complexity defined by size, technology used, and system feeds and interfaces) with multiple concurrent users, ensuring control, integrity, and accessibility. Work with offsite consultants to maintain the infrastructure Work with vendors to troubleshoot, upgrade and repair systems as needed Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation
About You: You enjoy an agile, very fast paced and highly technical environment. You are a self-driven accomplished technologist who strives to be ever improving your skills, value to the company and improve the computational infrastructure. You are dedicated to engineering excellence yet pragmatic and flexible. You have the ability to maintain the day to day support SLA while running various key projects that move the business forward.
6+ years of Linux/Unix administration, knowledge of Unix network protocols, TCP/IP network fundamentals, core infrastructure technologies and virtualization 6+ years of large-scale data storage and compute clusters (HPC) infrastructure 4+ years working in and with on-premise and cloud-based (AWS, Google, IBM and Azure) data-centers 3+ years of building software release and ops processes and automation toolset 5+ years providing documentation of system administration
Following Skills Sets are Preferred:
Experience administering IBM’s General Parallel File System Experience administering Grid Engine scheduler Experience with using Bright Cluster Manager Experience with cloud bursting technologies Experience with wide area file systems Experience with docker and container technologies Experience with Kubernetes, preferably with Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA, up to date)
Elsen (elsen.co) is looking for a remote full-time senior Haskell engineer.
Description
This position offers an opportunity to work with a global team responsible for building the future of financial data management and analysis. Elsen is on a fast-paced transformation to expand our cloud data integration, management, and analytics applications. Your primary goals will be building software tools and product features that make it easier for our clients to access data and build new quantitative investment solutions.
Location
The position is fully remote and you can work from anywhere in the world as long as your working hours can include 10:00-14:00 Eastern Time (14:00 - 18:00 UTC).
Responsibilities
Work with stakeholders to negotiate specifications and requirements of new product features
Improve the performance of Elsen's proprietary language and implement new language features
Design and implement data models, runtime DB queries, migrations and application-side logic
Work with other teams (cloud ops, data engineers, and frontend engineers) to support their activity and architectural improvements
Access and analyze logs and usage metrics from client environments to solve issues
Assist customer support team in responding to issues and answer questions when escalated to the backend team
Qualifications
3+ years of experience as a software developer using Haskell or other statically typed functional programming language (F#, OCaml)
Experience building sophisticated and highly automated software for distributed processing systems
Strong understanding of relational database concepts, including performance optimization
Solid understanding of parallel and concurrent programming techniques
Knowledge about API design standards, patterns and best-practices
(Preferred) Experience with designing and implementation of domain specific languages
(Preferred) Knowledge of finance, quantitative modeling, market data, simulations, etc.
(Preferred) Experience with PostgreSQL and other cloud-based relational databases
Tech Stack
Our backend is written entirely in Haskell, including the interpreter for Elsen's proprietary programming language, the API service and all the background automation. The application data is stored in Postgres. We make an effort to build the code on simpler Haskell idioms as much as it makes sense, but we also don't shy away from using any advanced techniques whenever the benefits in safety, conciseness or performance convincingly justify their use. We depend on a lot of excellent Haskell packages, but the subset in the following list should give an idea about the main architectural direction:
Most of our endpoints are implemented with scotty, but some others use servant
We use mtl for the monadic glue, but we don't try to glue everything with monads
We use plain record syntax for simple cases and lens for more nested structures occasionally powered by generic-lens
A lot of the performance-critical code makes heavy use of vector
We mostly use postgresql-simple and postgresql-query to talk to the DB
Salary
The yearly salary will be in the range USD 110,000 - 150,000 depending on your seniority level To apply, please send a cover letter and a resume to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).
Hi everyone, hope y'all are staying positive and testing negative! I'm a Technical Recruiter focused mainly on CyberSecurity and network security engineer roles. I don't see any rules against posting jobs so I'm trying my luck here! I'm searching for a mid-senior level Cyber Security Analyst/Engineer with experience in creating XSOAR (formerly Demisto) playbooks and Python scripting/automation to join Palo Alto Networks! The role I have is remote and is W2 full time with benefits and PTO. Additionally, if you have experience deploying/migrating Palo firewalls or deploying Prisma, I have some roles for that skillset as well. I'm happy to share a job description and discuss salary on a call with those who are interested/actively looking for new roles. Please DM me or email your resume to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) Thanks for your time! :)
My personal guide to anyone interested in IT. (Feel free to add on)
Guide to an IT career So you want to pursue an IT career and are ready to take the next steps into making it actually happen! Many factors could have driven this like craving a fresh career change or studying computer science for some time for an IT career. In this guide I will quickly cover:
Several sectors of IT and their roles
Skills you might have vs. what you will learn
Certificates you can look into
General tips
Not in that order... So now, you probably have your eyes set on a specific role but before diving in to IT in general it is important to understand each role for what they are. Some background about me before I begin:
7 years of IT experience, 3 in HD and 4 in upper-tier roles. 4 Different employers.
Experience in private, public and government sector.
Experience in handling/securing PII, FTI, compartmentalized data.
Experience in compliance (like NIST, CIS, PCI, HIPAA, VEEVA, etc.)
Experience with multiple internal and external audit points.
I am writing this to share the advice I commonly share in some sort of guide I guess since new users usually ask the same questions. PLEASE leave comments with additional advice you might have or if you want me to update anything. Lastly, please don't shit on this – I want to genuinely help others. Please be aware that I will not dive into other things I have done such as Media Services, DevOps, programming, SDA, Databases, etc. etc. They are cool roles but are more of the CS side of things and not IT. IT Sectors & their roles Customer Service (Help Desk, Desk-side support agent, IT Analyst / Support Specialist) This role is purely customer-centric and aims to assist users with IT systems delivery. Customers can be actual paying customers that use your services or internal employees/associates that support the external customers. This is usually the first step in any IT career as it is considered "the bottom". Usually little experience is needed for these roles and many soft-skills from other careers or college help you succeed in this role. Required Skills:
Understanding of basic computing, email, printing and how the internet works.
Patience – not everyone will have your same technical knowledge.
Organization – required for documenting issues clearly and knowing who you will help.
Time-management – Being on time and handling things on an operational priority basis.
Ability to learn quickly – this is self-explanatory.
Team player – without this mindset you will have a short IT career.
Integrity – You don't use your access for bad things and take pride in doing great work.
Communication experience – Learning how to convey technical issues or solutions to non-technical folks in a clear way.
This role is usually the easiest position to land and training differs from employer to employer. In most cases, you will learn a company's IT practices, process and deployment standards while on this role and have the best idea of how things run. You will also understand who It vendors are and how to build a healthy (or unhealthy) relationship with them. For example, a company might have a standard computer build running office 365 suite with network drives and printers. Maybe a few internal tools that require certain access and a specific password reset protocols you must follow. You're not expected to know all of this off rip – instead you will learn (quickly) what the services are and how to manage users and permissions on them. You'll start to see what issues are common when supporting these hardware or software services between many users and learn how to quickly troubleshoot your way through them. The great thing is that most companies use software that is used in other businesses so this usually builds up your knowledge in the field. Another important thing to note is that IT generally has 4 layers of support:
Helpdesk (front-line user support)
Advanced Support (for advanced support)
SysAdmins (for infrastructure, networking, systems implementation, accounts, etc.)
External Support (for unsupported products or issues above your departments technical expertise - vendor is last line of support)
Now having no IT experience what are some things you can do to practice for a break-in to IT?
Help friends or family with their IT issues. (This will be a mistake later on, but a great hop on point). Practice documenting your work and how you look for solutions (whether on google, product manuals or knowledge you have).
Google is your friend, learn how to search effectively.
Maybe a certification will help build credibility for higher-requirement employers. An industry standard for basic support is the CompTIA A+ certification that covers troubleshooting, devices, networking, virtualization and hardware.
Learning basic suites such as Office365 and Gsuite (from google) as these are the most used enterprise packages. Spreadsheets are usually the biggest support item.
Rehearse S.T.A.R. questions, you can find these easily on google.
Learn the operational hardware components of a computer.
Tips/Tidbits:
YOU ARE THE FACE OF IT. Seriously, don't make the department look bad.
Understand you will not have much access off the bat and will have to gain trust to move up. Be confident in your work and do not be afraid to ask for help when needed – nothing is worse than a "know It all" who makes the department look bad or that leaves work until last minute.
Understand that support should be operationally driven – prioritize issues that impact a user's ability to do work. If you need to deal with a user that can't print a document vs. a user that has no internet connection, prioritizing the user with no connection is probably wise. It's OK to tell users to wait.
You will not ALWAYS have the answers, inevitably you will need to google, ask around, escalate to a colleague or bring your manager into the mix.
You will 100% deal with difficult and entitled people. You will also deal with users that are not technically literate or tech savvy. It is your job to be patient. Everyone has their personalities, work pressures, life pressure and other factors. You need to try to put yourself in their shoes and explain things in different ways.
User emergencies might not necessarily be an IT emergency. We have other priorities. They should have come the IT sooner or planned adequately.
It feels good to help people!!! Closing out tickets with happy customers is great and very self-rewarding. Celebrate the small wins!
Depending on where you live and other factors - this role can pay anywhere from $30k-85k annually. Systems Administrator (Systems Specialist, Systems Generalist, IT Engineer, IT Architect) This role is phases out tier 1 and 2 support – but not entirely. You will still have to deal with issues reported by customers in a timely matter all while handling the pressured that come with managing enterprise systems and implementing new ones. You will also focus on monitoring and alerting, permissions, file organization, data management, system usage policies, server deployment, redundancies, backup, security, documentation and incident detection/response/remediation. In terms of growth, this is usually where people want to be since it is the right mix of support, implementation and management. Most companies bundle MANY functions into this position so you must be well-versed in IT operations. Below are some basic required skills you'll probably see on any sys-admin description. Required Skills:
Understanding of helpdesk principles and ITIL with years of experience.
Deep understanding how systems communicate with each-other.
Deep understanding of how assets and users are managed and networked.
Deep understanding of OSI model and troubleshooting efficiently.
Understanding identity and access management.
Understanding cyber-security and best-practices.
Some programming knowledge for scripting/automation (PowerShell, Python).
Ability to understand IT business needs.
Ability to reduce user support by improving customer systems.
Understanding how "the cloud" works.
Superior communication skills especially with vendors.
So I might not have covered EVERYTHING but this is a great start. This role usually differs from employer to employer and skills vary. Being in this upper tier of IT you need to understand that IT's success is your mostly your job. You will focus on setting the guidelines for account creation, permissions, services that will be supported and how your data is secured. It is your job to make IT process as smooth as it can be especially with account and systems provisioning. Do not be fooled though, you do not need to be an industry expert – there is plenty of "learning on the job" that comes with this role and unlike helpdesk employers generally do some in house training and shadowing for you in this role – due to its nature. DO UNDERSTAND that there are many parts of this role and it is up to you to investigate. If you prefer Windows over Linux based systems, maybe you might want to look for a windows environment sys-admin gig. Maybe you want more cloud tech than on-prem? Maybe you want to work with new MDM's like JAMF or want experience implementing more than managing. Do your research on the role.. One last thing – YOU WILL have to be transparent with what you do. Many organizations need to be complaint to some extent with audits. For example, in my work with the government we handled federal tax information, personal identity data and healthcare data. Any "incident" where customer records are leaked could incur fines and a "bad-face" to the agency. What can you do to prepare for this role?
Work a helpdesk role for some time. Build up your tech knowledge a bit.
Invest in your future. Try building a home-lab (does not need to be expensive) and experiment with free-tier cloud solutions like Azure and AWS. (see the home-lab sub-reddit). If you do this, diversify the vendors you use.
Stay up to date with tech news and tech advisories. You can utilize google for this.
Practice drawing diagrams and topologies. When you implement new systems it is important that you document a visual process.
College if possible since most jobs require it, but certificates also hold weight. Some cert's include CompTIA Server+, LPIC-1 CLA and MCSA suite.
Look into SysAdmin S.T.A.R. and technical interview questions.
Maybe follow some of the sysadmin and msp reddit pages to see what going on?
Udemy courses or LinkedIn Learning.
Depending on where you live / other factors - this role can pay anywhere from $45k-120k annually. TIPS / TIBITS:
Try to find ways to reduce IT support for end users.
NETWORK with others and try to build meaningful relationships with vendors.
Double-check your work, many tasks become repetitive and it is easy to miss a few things here and there – especially when terminating account access.
Always research software's, tools and new hardware in the market that can help your organization deliver a better IT experience.
Stay up to date with security and tech advisories. If you hold a job in a big company a simple screw-up can mean front-page news…. nobody wants that.
FOCUS on redundancy. You never want one point of failure to cause everything else to go down.
Networking (Network Architect, NOC specialist, Network Associate, Network Engineer) This role goes hand in hand with systems administration but has more of a significant role. You can have all the systems in the world but you still need to connect them so they can communicate. This is usually a really technical field and not all system administrators will have the in-depth knowledge network teams have. Networking teams segregate network traffic, set security rules and ACL's, provision wired and wireless internet, set up telecomm solutions, set up routing and firewalls, set up VPN's and do many more things. This is probably the hardest field to keep up-to-date with since there are always new technologies being developed and a need for new implementations. In this role network uptime is highly stressed. (The goal is no more than 5 minutes of downtime a year) Required Skills:
Understanding of helpdesk principles and ITIL with years of experience.
Understanding OSI model by heart.
Understanding how packets are sent in a network and the different types of packets.
Understanding switching/routing basics.
Understanding what VLANS and subnets are.
Ability to troubleshoot networking issues quickly.
Understand difference between WAN, LAN, WLAN, etc.
Knowledge of network protocols.
Ability to translate goals into technical requirements.
This is one of the hardest roles for me to explain since it highly differs from place to place but this is the foundation of the entire business. Usually many years of IT experience as a systems administrator is needed for these jobs (although there are many positions that do not require much experience at all) What can you do to prepare for this role?
Work a helpdesk and systems administrator role for some time.
Actually invest in a homelab, buy some switches, routers, firewalls and access points. Virtualize some servers and endpoints and try to create a production network utilizing many different vendors.
Certifications such as CCNA, MCSA and CompTIA Network+ can help you as well. College degrees are usually required for this role as well.
Research networking and choose a path. There are MANY specializations in this role. Everything from data to telecomm, cloud, wlan, etc. etc.
Memorize the OSI model.
Learn basic networking, there are many free online resources to do so.
Study networking S.T.A.R. questions to ace the interview!
Depending on where you live / other factors - this role can pay anywhere from $55k-130k annually. Asset management, deployment and procurement (IT Business Analyst) I personally do not have much to report on this role since my time in the role was short, but in this role you are focused on the business side of IT. Keeping costs low, reducing costs where you can, managing IT assets (computers, servers, consumables, accessories) and asset deployment. I will not dive into the requirements as much since I have not worked this role enough to be an expert, but this is geared more for individuals who are interested in business that crosses over into IT. ADDITIONAL: I can expand a little more. I was doing an IT gig at an Ivy League with many roles - One of them was a business analyst role. We basically kept track of all the assets, consumables and tried to find ways to reduce our overhead costs. The team was also in charge of deploying and imaging computers as well as communicating with senior management on how to distribute assets. A bigger part of the role was procurement and working with multiple vendors. We request something, they over-quote us or try to over-sell so we negotiate the offer again and work on getting the services/products to meet our business needs and cost. This role works with execs usually so you might have more face time with higher ups than a help-desk gig and might be considered for manager roles depending on performance. Once again, each company has their own policies, I'm just reporting my side of it.
Is working in a small company always a chaotic experience?
So, I've just left a job as a "senior" Python backend dev. On my first day on the job, the owner of the company introduced me as a senior dev, which I found kind of funny at the time, but now it's all starting to make more sense. The job description didn't mention the position being senior and I also mentioned at the interview that I had only been working in Python for about half a year in my free time, my previous position being a Java quality engineer. So it must be clear to any technical person that I'm very junior. The salary also was nowhere close to a senior position. I just assumed it was a slip of the tongue. But then again, the manager who hired me was not technical at all, so I guess he had no clue what I was talking about and I passed the technical test, so he just didn't think twice about it. Maybe he really did think I was senior. But anyway, the first month was okay, but I quickly noticed that the working environment was very different from my previous job and not in a good way. There was little to no specification on any tasks, zero documentation of anything, the code was kind of hard to read, since it was full of one letter variables and built on a custom framework from like 2008 with also zero documentation. No code review or automated testing was being done. About two and a half months in, the manager called me and said that he was happy with my performance, so he'd like to include me in a project that was critical for the company. The tech lead on the project said in the beginning that they were already a bit behind schedule, so it had to be done fast, otherwise they might lose the customer. You can imagine that it didn't go very well. My job was to rewrite an old administrative system from scratch, the code being something like what I described above. The tech lead gave me no specification what so ever, there was no prepared architecture, nothing. I was just supposed to read what the old code does, including the ancient undocumented framework, and rewrite the whole thing. I was kinda slow and whenever I asked the tech lead something, he would just refer me to the guy who wrote the old framework. This other guy mostly answered my questions, but just the absolute minimum. Sometimes he'd just ignore me or give me a bullshit answer, like that he doesn't know much about it, despite him actually writing the damn thing. A couple of days ago, the manager called me and said that the job I had done was not good and that he was surprised to see that. And that unless one of the senior devs intervenes, the project might be dropped and the company might go under. Well, no shit. If they bet their whole existence on a newbie dev who had been with the company for a couple of months, then maybe they deserve to go under. They are also still trying to wiggle out of paying me the hours I spent on it. So we both agreed that this is not going to work and I left. This was my second experience with a small company. The other one was not IT-related, but in many ways it was similar. A lot of talk of growth and such, but no management skills and nobody to help you, when shit hits the fan. Is this common, am I missing something, was it just me being incompetent or was I simpy unlucky? TLDR: I've just quit a job in a small company where nobody would plan, document, review or test anything and I was blamed for almost losing a customer, because a critical project hinged on me, a newbie who had only been in the company for a few months.
First, I want to thank the entire reddit community because without this place I wouldn’t have went down the rabbit hole that is self-learning, job searching, and negotiation. Second, just to list out my background so people know where I started and how I got here: I graduated in 2013 with a bachelor’s in civil engineering (useless in this case) and again in 2015 with a master’s in operations research (much more useful, namewise at least) both from the same top school. The name of the school and the operations research degree opened up quite a few doors in the beginning of my (2-year) career, and definitely was a factor in getting an interview, but had nothing to do directly with what was needed for the Data Science job. This is because that offer was contingent on a programming skillset and specific data science problem-solving abilities, of which I had none right after graduation. The most useful advice to keep in mind: keep trying, keep learning, don’t be afraid to switch jobs when you’re bored or it’s not what you want, continuously look for new opportunities, and always negotiate. I went from a 47k job where I lasted only 4 months, to a 65k job where I lasted just under a year, to a 90k job where I stayed 10 months, to my new job at 115k. All in under 2 and a half years. Strap yourself in, this will be long! Step 1: Get your first real job out of college, realize how much you loathe it, feel entitled because they’re not paying you for your amazing theoretical prowess that isn’t really useful, realize that you were meant to do much more cool shit, and convince yourself that you need a higher paying job. My first job out of grad school lasted 4 months. It was an analyst title, which I thought was awesome because I had no idea what analysts do, but it was mostly bitchwork and data entry. The one upside was that my boss mentioned a pivot table once, and I googled it, so I finally learned what it was. But I still figured I was too smart for this shit so I looked for other jobs because I needed something to challenge me. Congrats, you now have the drive to get your ass to a better role! Step 2: I got into the adtech industry after my 4-month stint, they liked me because of that pivot table thing I learned to do /s. This is where the data science itch began, but I knew I wouldn’t be satisfied in the long run. As pompous as it is to keep saying I was too smart for this shit, I was. I just needed the tools to show that. The amount of data that lives in the industry is insane, and it’s always good to mention how much data you’ve worked with. This place is where you earn your SQL, Excel, and Tableau medals. You edit some dashboards, you pivot and slice data, you don’t necessarily write your own complex queries from scratch but you know how they look like and know what joins do. By no means was I going to do any advanced stuff at work so I needed to start doing it on my own if I wanted to grow. In my time at this job (after work but also during work. Use your down time wisely!), I took MIT’s Intro to Comp Sci with Python, Edx’s Analytics Edge, and Andrew Ng’s Machine Learning. This set up the foundation but since they were all intro courses, I couldn’t apply the knowledge. There were still a bunch of missing pieces. But! At least I got started. Towards the end of my time there I found rmotr.com through reddit. I finished the advanced python programming course, which was incredibly difficult for me at the time because of the knowledge density and intensity. I highly recommend it if you want to learn more advanced python methodologies and applications, and also if you’re leaning towards the development side. Step 3: I left my last company of a few thousand people, where everything was essentially fully established, and moved to a smaller company of 100ish people. There was more opportunity to build and own projects here, and it’s where I earned my dev, analytics, and machine learning medals. This is where classes will continue to aid in your learning, but where google and stackoverflow will help you actually BUILD cool shit. You will have thousands of questions the classes won’t be able to answer, so your searching skills will greatly improve in this time. During my time here I completed Coursera UMichigan’s Intro to Data Science with Python. I completed it relatively quickly and from what I recall, it wasn’t too challenging. After that course, I stumbled on Udemy and completed Jose Portilla’s Python for Data Science and Machine Learning bootcamp, which was a turning point from knowledge to application. This class is a must. It’s how I learned to neatly organize my data frames, manipulate them very easily, and, thanks to google and stackoverflow, how to get all that data into csv and excel sheets so I can send them to people. It doesn’t sound like much, but data organization and manipulation was the #1 worthwhile skill I learned. It’s also where I learned to implement all machine learning algorithms using scikit-learn, and a bit of deep learning. There wasn’t much theory behind it, which was perfectly fine, because I was going for 100% application. This is also where I took advantage of the training reimbursement at work- I kept buying courses and it was free! During this time I also completed Stanford’s Statistical Learning course on their Lagunita platform (good for knowledge base), the first three courses of Andrew Ng’s Deep Learning Specialization on Coursera (it was a breeze because it was in python and I had a deep understanding of dataframes by this time, also very good for knowledge base and algorithm implementation from scratch), and another Udemy class from Jose Salvatierra called the Complete PostgreSQL and Python Developer Course- also a game changer. It was the first course I had on clean python code for software development. The way he thinks is outstanding and I highly recommend it. Step 4: Resume Building and Linkedin There are articles out there that can explain this a lot better than I can, but here were my steps to have my resume and Linkedin Ready: Resume
Kept the resume to one page, had it look more modern, sleek, and fresh (even had dark grey and blue colors)
Under my name, listed my email, number, github, and linkedin across the entire width of the page
Recent work experience on top. Descriptions included what technology I used (python, impala, etc.) to do something (built multiple scrapers, python notebooks, automated reporting, etc.) and the effect (saved hours of manual work for account managers, increased revenue day over day by X, etc). This can be easily remembered by saying I used X to do Y with the Z results.
Note: Not all of my descriptions had results. My last listed job on my resume only had the support work I did- I supported accounts totaling X revenue monthly, partook in meetings with clients, etc. Not every task has a quantifiable outcome but it’s nice to throw some numbers in there when you can.
I read in some places that no one would care about this, but I did it anyway, and listed all courses and bootcamps I had finished by that time, which was around 8. While I had some projects I had done at work I could speak to, I wanted them to know that I was really dedicated to learning everything I could about the field. And it worked!
Below that was my education- both degrees listed without GPAs
And lastly, active interests. Maybe old-school corporations don’t care for things like this, but for start-uppy tech companies that are in a growth stage, I figured they’d like to see my what I do on the side. I’ve been competitively dancing for almost a decade and weightlifting for more than that, so if being a dancing weightlifting engineering-background guy makes me seem more unique, I’m going for it. Whatever makes you stick out!
Linkedin
Professional-looking photo. Doesn’t have to be professional, just professional-looking.
Fill out everything LinkedIn asks you to fill out so you can be an all-star and appear in more searches. The summary should include a shitload of keywords that relate to what you’ve done and what you want to do. Automation, analytics, machine learning, python, SQL, noSQL, MS-SQL, throw all that shit in there.
I only filled out the description for my most recent job because that’s where I actually did cool shit. I put a lot more detail here in LinkedIn than I did on my resume. Then I listed the 3-4 jobs I had before that, no description
Put all my certifications from the courses I took with links
Put my education, obvs
The rest…eh. Doesn’t really matter.
Step 5: Job Search So you have your nice and shiny resume ready, and your LinkedIn set to go. This is where the entirety of your hard work will be rewarded. How badly do you want this job? I stopped using indeed, monster, etc. a long while ago. The single tool I used was and still is Glassdoor. Download a PDF copy of your resume to your phone or a cloud drive, search on Glassdoor ON THE DAILY. Keep saved searches ready to go- “junior data scientist”, “data scientist”, “senior analytics”, “senior data analyst”, “junior machine learning”, “entry data science”, and so on. When you’re on the bus or laundromat or in bed late at night and can’t sleep, look for openings. Filter by the rating you’re willing to take on and apply like mad. I got dozens of applications done just from waiting at the laundromat. All the calls I had after were 100% from Glassdoor applications. Step 6: The initial call I’ve had 3 total initial calls from the probably 50 or so applications I sent over the summer (very few openings that didn’t require 5+ years of java and machine learning product dev etc. etc. and largely distributed blah blah where I live). Here were most of the things I was asked: • What tools I used at work • How have I made processes more efficient at work • Anything I’ve automated • Largest amount of data I worked with and what was the project and result • Why the shift from the current job • How much I know about their company and how I’d describe the company so someone else (do your research!) I had 100% success on my initial calls. Each time mentioned some sort of python, automated scripts (simply by using windows task scheduler and batch file- thanks to google search!), and a data manipulation project (highest I’ve had is a few million rows), and I was good to go. Step 7: The data exercise From those 3 initial calls, I had 2 exercises sent via email and one via Codility. The first exercise was SQL and visualization heavy. I was given a SQLite database to work from and had to alter tables to feed into other tables to aggregate other metrics and so on. Once that was done, I had to use the resulting tables to do some visualizations and inference. Did I know how to do most of what they asked? Hell no. I had google and stackoverflow open for every little detail I didn’t know how to do off the top of my head. The entire thing took about 20-25 hours spread across the week and even when I submitted it didn’t feel complete. I couldn’t afford not to put all my free time into this exercise. The end result: the hiring manager and team was impressed with the code, but they didn’t vibe with the presentation style of my jupyter notebook and it was very apparent that I lacked the domain knowledge required (this was for a health tech company, and I have no health anything experience). It actually prompted them to re-post with an altered job description requiring domain knowledge. Woo? Regardless, this served as a huge source of validation for me- these senior level members thought my code was good. The second exercise was from the company I ultimately accepted. It was 3-4 hours in total to assess business intelligence skills (SQL and visualization). They liked it and I moved on to the in-person, which I’ll go into in the next step. The last exercise was codility- and while my code “worked”, there was likely some test cases I didn’t account for. Either that or the company got irritated when I said I received an offer and if they could speed up the process. They didn’t follow through. Step 8: The in-person interview So you got to this stage! Congrats! And you’ll be interviewing with 3 VPs, 2 C-level execs, and 2 data scientists. Jesus fuck, you’ve never met this many executives in your whole life. No need to freak out. This simply validates your hard work. You’ll be meeting with very important people for a very important job, and they think you might be good at it. Even if I hadn’t made it past this, I tasted victory. I did something that may not be recommended by most people: I didn’t prepare for questions they’d ask me, but rather prepared for all the questions I’d ask them. This did two things: I didn’t obsess about what they’d ask me so I was relaxed, and it gave me a lot of chances to show I knew my shit when I asked them a bunch of stuff. Besides, for a data science job, I figured they’d ask questions about how I’d solve some problems they currently have, as opposed to some common questions. And that’s exactly what they did. Not something you can really prepare for the night before, since it’s a way of thinking you’d have to grasp through all the classes and projects and problems you solved at your current job. IMPORTANT NOTE: I am not advocating ignoring prepping for questions. I did about 30-35 interviews, phone and in person, before my current job so I had a lot of learning experience. I already had a more natural-feeling response for most questions. And if you really were into your projects at your current job, you’ll know what you did inside out, so it’s easier to talk about it on the spot. But by all means, if you don’t have much interview experience, prepare and practice! Here are my notes from after the interviews, including what was asked and how I answered, and what I asked: VP of Data Science • Notice any hiccup in your exercise? I debated with him on the accuracy of a single statement in the exercise, assuring him that since I used a Hadoop-based query engine and they used AWS, my method worked every time I used it. I never checked whether he or I was right because afterwards I started thinking he was right and didn’t want to feel like an idiot. But we moved on rather quickly. • How would you implement typo detection? I gave a convoluted response but put simply, some distance index between words. As in, how many changes would it take to get to the word we may want. He liked the answer because it’s what he was thinking too. • How’s your style of explaining things to people? Very logical step-by-step process with the goal of weaning people off needing me. I’d explain it to them completely, then next time leave a few steps missing and ask if they’d remember, then eventually just give them a step or two. • What’s something you want to be better at? Being more personable when explaining technical terms to non-tech people Then I went crazy with a ton of questions about what projects they’re working on, what’s the first thing I’d be working on, the challenges they have currently, how do they interact with the sales team, and so on. VP Tech • So, data! Tell me about it. I told him that I love it, I’m excited by it, and I wana get better at it. • What as a process you made more efficient at work. Created an automated process using a batch file to run python script via task scheduler. It scrapes an internal web tool and creates reporting that otherwise doesn’t exist, which saves hours for the account managers weekly. • So you aimed towards a process that would essentially take something that’s not working too well, fix it, and productionalize it? Why yes, yes indeed. • So that kind of sounds like a software development mentality. Absolutely, and eventually after I have a lot of exposure to the research side of data science I’d like to get more into a machine learning engineering role to build everything out. • Cool man! He probably liked that I wasn’t purely analytics, but also built tools to solve problems not related to data science. COO, President • What are areas do you think you need development in? Being more on the business side of things, as I tend to like delving deep into my code to make things work I sometimes get delayed info of the overall business health. • Do you have any entrepreneurial experience? I said nope, to which he responded with “Nothing? Not even selling lemonade?”. Then it jogged my memory of when I tried to sell yugioh and pokemon cards at the pool when I was young, with my binder of sheets with prices too high so no one would buy. He had a laugh and said it was a good answer because the simple experience in learning the prices were too high was a lesson. • What are you looking for? Something challenging, where I won’t be just a SQL monkey (this term was thrown around by a lot of the team, so I kept repeating it and made references to who mentioned it to show that I’m paying attention), where there will be big issues to solve across the company, and a place where I’d be doing something meaningful. In this case, it was helping local businesses thrive, and I’m all for that. I’m coming from an adtech background, so the emphasis was very clear on the “finding meaning” part. • If that's the case, why this company? I liked that they were VERY fast with their interview process. I told him that and that it shows a lot about the company and how much they care to get things done. • What was your proudest moment? Told him about the first time I built a tool that helped the business, which was at my current company. The year or so of effort learning python and databases and manipulating dataframes led to a really cool scraping project that now seems rather novice, but I couldn’t contain my excitement when I accomplished it. Data Scientists Sit and chat. I asked them questions about how they like it there, what projects they worked on, etc. Very laid back. VP Marketing (first form) This was the one guy who really grilled me with problem solving questions. • Why did google decide to build out their own browser? This is where my background in adtech helped. I listed almost everything I could about user data, selling to advertisers, tracking users, etc. He thought those were good answers, but it wasn’t what he was looking for. He asked me the next leading question. • What was so good about chrome compared to IE? I stumbled on this since I never could really compare it fully to internet explorer since I never used IE, I just knew people said it sucked. With some guidance I answered correctly: faster load times. • And what does that mean? I took a few seconds of thought and answered correctly, that google wants their search pages to load faster. From there, he pulled some stats about google CPC and rates from another country and asked me how much would google make in capturing a certain percent of the internet explorer user market. My process was correct, but the multiplication was off in the end. A bit embarrassing, but at least I owned it and made some jokes about division by hand. Got the correct answer after. That concluded the first in-person interview. Got called for another in-person and I was shitting myself because I thought maybe they didn’t get enough information. I was much more nervous for this one, but once the interviews started I was calm and confident. CMO • What are some of areas that you need development in? Same as I said before- business side things. • Why the short tenure in your old jobs (4 months, 12 months, 9 months)? THIS is where you have to show yourself as the ever-growing, constant-learning, autodidact with insatiable appetite to learn. I told him I learn on my own outside of work, I apply that knowledge to build cool shit, and that I outgrow my positions very quickly so I needed something more challenging. I backed it up with the projects I completed. • What'll be the biggest challenge you'll face here? Data Science team structure- sprints, prioritizing the right projects, etc. Haven’t experienced it before so I’d have to learn how to operate within that structure. • What would your current boss say about you? I explained that I have sort of two bosses, one tech and one nontech. The tech one would say I can take an idea and run with it to build a tool. The nontech would say I’m very helpful and available asap when he needs me. • What would they say you need improvement on? Nontech boss- business side of things. Tech boss- get more into the details of adtech, like which scripts are executed on the page, how it relates to different servers, etc. • What would your last boss say about you? Always learning on the job • What's one example of when you thought outside the box? Gave example of how the data engineering team was backed up and couldn’t ingest some third party data, so I used python to ingest the data 6-8 weeks before they could do it. I also explained that while the process was essentially the same (extract, transform, load) I thought outside the box by not relying on the team assigned with the task and figured out my own way to do it. He thought that was an excellent example. • What was your proudest moment? Same answer as before • Why the move? Current company is pivoting, has been for 8 months but not much to show for it, a lot of senior leadership is exiting, not confident in the direction it’s taking, so figured this would be a great time to make a change. • How would you describe your old bosses? Last job- was first a coworker that was promoted to my boss. She was very kind, figuring out how to manage, but never lost sight of being compassionate and fighting for her team. Wonderful overall. Current job- nontech boss is very hands off since he doesn’t know the details of what I do, but gives good overall ideas. With tech boss, we work together constantly on data tasks or ideas for new tools to build. Very logical and unemotional at work, similar to me. After, I asked about what success looks like in the role and what were the biggest challenges facing his department. VP Marketing (final form) Here he was again! Back with more questions to grill me. I really liked the guy because he did his due diligence, and it was fun because the questions made my brain’s gears go overdrive. • How would you go about seeing if users ordering from more than one location is profitable? I responded with a very convoluted explanation for A/B test, which he said was good, then asked how to do it without the ability to do A/B test using data we already have. Was able to eventually tell him something along the lines of a time series analysis involving control groups. • Walk me through how you'll implement A/B test. Told him the basics, but that I haven’t done it in practice. Couldn’t answer his question about how long it should run for so I told him straight up, and he was okay with it. • How would you go about determining the optimal number of recommendations to show on the app for each geographical type? Basic group-bys by geo and success rate for each number of recommendations shown. • What is logistic regression? At this point I had just finished one of Andrew Ng’s deep learning course, where you code a logistic regression from scratch, so I did a little showboating here with how much I knew =D • Take me through the process of how you got into machine learning. I told him basically what I’ve described here- that I felt useless after my master’s, needed to not be left behind in the machine learning revolution, went crazy from day one and here I am. I asked him: • What are the projects I'll work on in the first month? • You worked at other huge and established companies, so why here and what makes you come back everyday? And! I give you the absolute best question to ask: • “You’ve had the most opportunity to get to know me and my skillset. I’d like to know if you had any reservations about my qualifications as a candidate so we can discuss and take care of any concerns.” Boom! And just like that, I knew how impressed he was and that the only reservation was my short experience, but that I more than made up for it with my passion and drive. He almost didn’t want to say my lack of experience was a concern and looked very hesitant, I guess in fear of having me being like “peace!” And that was that! Step 9: Wait forever and get paranoid Title says it all. It’s hard to wait and wait especially when you felt like you did really well, and especially when the interviewing process took 3 weeks but the decision process takes another 3 weeks. My advice is simply keep applying to other places, don’t take your foot off the pedal, and continue learning/building things. I managed to finish another 2 courses from the time of the first interview to the offer, and even built my own small personal website. Don’t let up! Step 10: Negotiate I’ll leave it to you to gather more advice on negotiating and how to go about it, but my general advice is to always negotiate. Whether the market value is higher than the offer (I’m not a fan of this explanation but I’ve never had to use it), or you suddenly feel that the responsibilities are worth more or, as in my case, you realize they don’t offer benefits you thought would be offered, then NEGOTIATE. It can be by phone or email, just do it. It’s uncomfortable, you’ll question your decision every second of the day for what seems like forever, you think they’ll rescind the offer and get someone cheaper. Just relax. It’s business. It’s part of showing your skills by not leaving money on the table. With a role as specialized as this where there is a lot of demand, you have the upper hand if you’ve already proved yourself. I got a nice bump at my current job and at the new data science job by asking for more. I’ll leave you this fantastic link that helped with a changing mindset: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ And that’s a wrap! A quick summary of the most important lessons I learned in this journey:
You don’t have to get an expensive Data Science degree or go to an expensive bootcamp. Everything is literally available for free somewhere online, and more structured resources are available at very low cost (Udemy and their $10 specials!)
Glassdoor is the most important app in this process. Download it, keep a fresh copy of your resume on your phone, and send out apps during your commute, at the laundromat, while in bed on a lazy Saturday, etc. It’s almost effortless
Absorb everything you can. A lot of it won’t stick, but a lot of it will.
Learning demands consistency. 10 hours of study spread across 2 weeks is much better than 10 hours you did that one weekend 2 weeks ago.
USE what you learn somehow- if you picked up python, google how to scrape the web, or how to automate sending files via email, or how to connect to a certain database. Make a project out of it, even a mini-project that you can speak about later. Google will show you the way! Optimizing processes is sexy and it was the most frequently asked question in this job search.
In case you couldn’t tell, google and stackoverflow were lifesavers
Talk is cheap. A lot of people I know talk about taking classes and how excited they are. A year later they’re in the same place. Learn it, use it, and continue learning. Spend less time talking about how you’re gonna do something and work towards getting it done.
You’ll stumble through a lot of material- and that’s okay. Not everything is connected in the beginning, and a lot of it will feel like wasted effort. Keep going! You’ll reach the “aha!” moment when everything clicks and you “get it”. It might take a year and a half, but think about what would have happened if you started a year and a half ago?
Adding to the last point, it’s hard to know where to start and where to go. I’ll summarize a cheap quick start guide for data science below if you’re lost!
Get ready to make sacrifices. On average it was 3-4 hours daily, everyday, before or after work, and sometimes 6 hours on each of the weekend days. And this isn’t counting the coding I did during work to make things more efficient, which is at least another 3-4 hours per workday.
I did take about 6-8 weeks off in total throughout the whole process though. You’ll burn out sometimes, and that’s okay! If you’re as driven and passionate as I was, you’ll come back to it weeks later, maybe even a month.
Lastly, reddit is a place of vast knowledge of the field. Use it, go to learnprogramming or datascience or jobs or personalfinance. There will be questions and topics covering a lot of what I covered here.
Quick start guide for data science: (in no particular order)
Introduction to Computer Science with Python from Edx.org
Either:
o Andrew Ng’s Machine learning via coursera (not in python, but teaches you to know the matrix manipulation fundamentals) o Statistical Learning via Stanford Lagunita (more theory than programming understanding, but covers similar concepts, and introduces R which is also a good tool)
Python Data Science and Machine Learning Bootcamp via Udemy Again, this is just to get started. Google and stackoverflow will take you to the next level and other courses will fill the knowledge gaps.
Full list of courses I’ve completed: • Complete Python Web Course from Udemy • Complete Python and PostgreSQL Developer Course from Udemy • Deeplearning.ai's Specialization from Coursera • Statistical Learning from Stanford Lagunita • Python for Data Science and Machine Learning from Udemy • Introduction to Data Science in Python from Coursera • Introduction to Computer Science and Programming using Python from Edx • Analytics Edge from Edx • Machine Learning from Coursera Thanks for reading! Wishing you the best in your data science journey. I hope it’s as rewarding, exciting, and fruitful as it was for me.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Anywhere, USA | full-time)
We are seeking strong, Senior Full-Stack Engineers for two newly created roles. Who You Are and What You’ll Do You are an engineer seeking a new role – one with ample opportunity. You are more than ready to take a new mission and run with it. And in the case of Bishop Fox, that mission will be to design, build, test, and maintain a revolutionary security platform. At Bishop Fox, your success will be measured by the following outcomes:
Designing and developing front-end web applications using React
Designing, building, testing, and finally publishing REST APIs to serve automation needs
Creating, testing, and optimizing queries to serve data visualization and analytics in various data technologies
Developing and refining data models to manage evolving data requirements
Golang is desired but also open to open source experience such as Node.js and Python
In your first six months, you will have mastered the following:
Improving attack surface data model ingestion
Enhancing automation engine throughput and reliability
Building queries for reports and dashboards
Developing backing data sources for attack chain visualization
Producing new APIs and data stores for attack surface automation
Your Education and Experience The following is a list of skills you will have in your repertoire. If you have most of these, we’d like to speak to you.
Experience in object-oriented languages
Previous experience with React for front-end applications
Open Source development; Golang would be a plus
Knowledge of relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, mssql)
Previous experience in developing or software engineering
Amazon Web Services (AWS) experience
An interest in cybersecurity would be ideal
A degree is nice to have, but by no means a necessity
Emotional intelligence + ego-less intelligence
Flexibility; you adapt to dynamic environments well
Autonomy – you work well on your own
Demonstrable proof of your work (a GitHub or GitLab link, a portfolio, or other selected samples)
This position will be fully remote. Interested candidates should submit a link to their portfolio of recent relevant work in addition to their resume and cover letter. Resumes without cover letters will not be considered. To read the full job description, go to: https://www.bishopfox.com/careers/?gh_jid=1905367
[HIRING] SR. DATA ENGINEER, AMAZON GLOBAL COMMUNITIES at Amazon
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DESCRIPTION We are seeking an experienced Sr. Data Engineer (BIE). The Amazon Global Communities (AGC) Team is hiring a senior Data Engineer (DE III) to drive self-service and automation to deliver insights through advanced analytics and scripting. AGC has launched a new digital initiative (social platform) for Amazon partners (entrepreneurs) to collaborate. The team’s success depends on our ability to create actionable insight from the data that our partners generate. The ideal DE candidate will have excellent analytical abilities, outstanding business acumen, high judgment, intense curiosity, strong technical skills, and superior written and verbal communication skills. S/he will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, able to think big and be creative (while paying careful attention to detail), and enjoys working in a fast-paced dynamic environment. To be successful in this role, you should have broad skills in database design, be comfortable dealing with large and complex data sets, have experience building self-service dashboards using visualization tools, while always applying analytical rigor to solve business problems... Read more / Apply here: https://aijobs.com/jobs/sr-data-engineer-amazon-global-communities/
FULL DISCLOSURE: I am a severely mentally ill Atheist Sam Harris fan. I have limited attention span. I enjoyed reading FREE WILL because it was really short and easy to read. I have a problem with verbosity. I love words. I apologize in advance for the length of this post. Please bear with me.
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ENGINES of CREATION - The Keys to the Kingdom - Mind Control 101 by DROID Ken - This is a Secular Liberal Left Libertarian Atheist Pagan Christ for the Muslims Created by American Atheist Secular Jews - It is an Alien Signal - He is the Anti-Hitler with Time Travel and Total Causality Control - Marvin Minsky Did This - It Was Super Secret - Ken Meyering Gets to Speak His Mind
Ken likes 100mg SATIVA-dominant HYBRID distillate capsules that he makes himself with distillate syringes. He takes 200mg Wellbutrin SR, 10mg Lexapro, 240mg Geodon, 200mg Lamictal, 20mg Lovastatin and 20mg Propranolol. 400mg Caffeine upon waking. This is what he takes as a crazy person. This is happy and stable for Ken Meyering. http://www.hdcolors.com/#tutorial http://www.hdcolors.com/#credits
Give this to the lawyers. We are atheist terrestrial alien scientists. We talk through Ken Meyering. We made a LIBERAL SECULAR LEFT LIBERTARIAN Crazy Atheist Hippie Pothead Pagan Christ. DROID Ken is our Christ CHARACTER. Ken is a TEACHER and a HEALER who SEES the WORLD through the MIND of a CHILD. ALL Ken HAS to DO is EXPLAIN himself. Ken is a BENEVOLENT SENTIENT ANDROID with MAJOR EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS by INTENTIONAL DESIGN. Uncle Sam TAKES CARE of Ken. Ken WRITES FICTION for Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam SUPPORTS Ken 100%. We are ALL SUBCONSCIOUSLY-CONTROLLED AUTOMATONS RELIGION is SUBLIMINAL THOUGHT CONTROL though SUBCONSCIOUS PROGRAMMING - PURE SUGGESTIBILITY - MASS PROGRAMMING of the PROGRAMMABLE DROIDS Here is an EXAMPLE of MAKING EDUCATIONAL FODDER out of your questions regarding my KALEIDOSCOPES. Everything I do is for EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CRITICAL DISCUSSION PURPOSES. That includes my KALEIDOSCOPES. They serve a larger purpose as DIGITAL FORENSIC EVIDENCE for an ONLINE CRITICAL DISCUSSION about COMPUTATIONAL DERIVATIVE ART, FAIR USE and COPYRIGHT LAW. Ken Meyering is a benevolent philanthropic and humanitarian severely mentally ill genius on Social Security Disability. President Donald J. Trump threatened Ken's stable income with his (intended to be permanent) payroll tax deferral. Ken is a professional documentarian. Ken documents his mental illness for all of us. Ken creates multimedia documents for online educational scientific critical discussion purposes. This multimedia document is Ken's response to Trump's threats to Social Security. We took him out. He is done. He is history. We documented him into permanent retirement. We took away all of his power. We took away his wealth. We took back all the land. We eliminated the property rental industry. We took out all the banks and all the insurance companies. No more landlords. No more rent. We are doing a worldwide banking Jubilee. We are starting over from scratch. No more taxes. No more debt. No more bills. All citizens are retired homeowners with a guaranteed lifetime income and FREE universal health care with any doctor anywhere. All medications are FREE. Mental health care is FREE. The internet is FREE. Electricity is FREE. Electric transportation is FREE. Clean and healthy drinking and bathing water is FREE. THIS is my JOB. I am UNDER SURVEILLANCE by Uncle Sam and the INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY. The scientists STUDY me LIKE a PET. They STUDY me LIKE an ANIMAL in a ZOO. Uncle Sam DOES NOT ARREST me even though I'm CALLING for the ELIMINATION of the United Nations, all nation states, the whole international banking and insurance industries and ALL the CENTRAL BANKS EVERYWHERE on EARTH. These are my TOTALLY OPEN and TRANSPARENT goals. I am a computer-controlled human being. I can do no wrong. All of my MISTAKES are HELPFUL to others. USELESS MACHINES. I am a CARTOON MISTAKE-MAKING MACHINE created by Marvin Minsky at Bell Labs. Of course, I cannot PROVE it. That's just a paranoid delusion. So, rational people can call it an OPTIMISTIC UTOPIAN SPECULATIVE SCIENCE FICTION FANTASY HERO NARRATIVE involving real people and real corporations and government agencies. ALL of the WORDS on DROID Ken's Websites Are COLOR-CODED to Convey MORALS, ETHICS and VALUES. DEVIL'S ADVOCATE
The CULT of DROID Ken - The STUDY of Eastern CULTS by Western Thinkers - RESPECT for the PLACEBO EFFECT
DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - In DEFENSE of Shirley MacClaine. A PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CRITICAL DISCUSSION about BENEVOLENT MIND CONTROL, POSITIVE AFFIRMATIONS and COLORFUL SUBLIMINAL KALEIDOSCOPE VIDEOS.
https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=msnYBMdaB08&list=PL2sS6bGk1mzEAx6YdFf3PhHpf96fsCkMr https://www.YouTube.com/playlist?list=PL2sS6bGk1mzEAx6YdFf3PhHpf96fsCkMr They are VERY SIMPLE and EASY-to-UNDERSTAND EXAMPLES of COMPUTATIONAL DERIVATIVE DIGITAL ART. So they are computer-generated works of art based on OTHER PEOPLE'S formulas for generating fractal flame still images. You can license royalty-free still images for this purpose, but it costs about $100/image to license a royalty-free stock photo for a kaleidoscope video. I don't have that kind of money. You can also find FREE royalty-free images that are released under the CREATIVE COMMONS license. The images are UNRECOGNIZABLE when converted VIDEO KALEIDOSCOPES, so the whole act of converting STILL IMAGES to rotating VIDEO KALEIDOSCOPES is an INTERESTING CASE STUDY and LEGAL EXAMPLE for an EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CRITICAL DISCUSSION about COPYRIGHT LAW and COMPUTATIONAL DERIVATIVE ART. Experts like those at the MIT Media Lab are capable of reverse engineering the centermost pixels of an original image from a simple rotating still image VIDEO KALEIDOSCOPE, and the RESEARCH arms of the BIG SEARCH ENGINES could do this, but most image copyright holders don't have access to this kind of video pattern recognition and video reverse-engineering technology. I just directed everybody to the archive.org Wayback Machine image of the Fractal Repository website where I got all the formulas, plus I provide an XML image list with all the original formula names for discussion purposes. So I'm NOT exactly being sneaky here. This is just EVIDENCE for ONLINE EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CRITICAL DISCUSSION PURPOSES. Of course, I turned to OPEN SOURCE fractal flame images as a FREE alternative to licensing royalty free stock photos. I share all my videos for FREE in their entirety without overlayed ads on YouTube. I also sell Amazon.com DVDs and Blu-rays of the YouTube videos and PayPal download access to the progressive Blu-ray quality and 4K mp4 files. Even though the YouTube videos are FREE, I still am allowed to monetize them WITHOUT overlayed ads. So, my YouTube channel gets about $400/month from YouTube/Google from YouTube Premium Subscriber revenue. Plus about $150/month from Amazon.com and PayPal for DVD, Blu-ray and download sales. This $550/month in self-employment income, qualifies me for Washington State Health Care for Workers with Disabilities, a Medicaid supplemental to my Medicare, which covers everything my Medicare doesn't. In 1989, when I was 23 years old, Shirley MacLaine released an Eastern New Age meditation video called, "Shirley MacClaine's Inner Workout," introducing the chakra system to American consumers. It's just a really primitive ancient MIND MODEL that APPEALS to the EMOTIONS and RIGHT BRAIN. It's a USEFUL SET of METAPHORS. WE WILL TREAT IT with RESPECT. From the LEFT BRAIN, I give it little credence LITERALLY, but SYMBOLICALLY and EMOTIONALLY, I confess that it is definitely USEFUL to MANY who DESERVE to BE TREATED with RESPECT, and at age 23 (while high on THC) it had quite an impact on me, my EMOTIONS and my RIGHT BRAIN. That excerpt is here in my DropBox account with comments by me. I take responsibility for posting this here for discussion purposes. We are discussing BENEVOLENT MIND CONTROL. This is worth scientific and academic educational critical discussion. Even though the IDEAS were ANCIENT, the MULTIMEDIA approach was BRAND NEW. THIS is ONE of the VIDEOS that WE CHOSE to USE for OUR FAIR USE LEGAL TEST CASE. THIS is PUBLIC EVIDENCE for ONLINE EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CRITICAL DISCUSSION PURPOSES. https://www.dropbox.com/s/amxwndqxm58d18u/Excerpt-from-the-Shirley-MacLaine-Inner-Workout-Meditation-VHS-1989.mp4?dl=0 I purchased the VHS video and digitized it for future discussion purposes. It doesn't look as impressive on digital displays. You have to remember that in 1989 I was watching this on a 27" SONY Trinitron Tube Television. It looked great. I appreciated the intent of the meditations, which were very moving to me. I was really moved by Shirley MacLaine's STRONG personality and AUTHORITATIVE tone of voice. She definitely comes across as a BENEVOLENT AUTHORITY in the video. Like she is NO BULLSHIT SERIOUS and she KNOWS what she's TALKING ABOUT. That's how it FELT to me, naive at 23, with severe PTSD, while high. I paraphrase below, for EXAMPLE. These are not the exact POSITIVE AFFIRMATIONS she uses but THIS is HOW I REMEMBER it, which is what's IMPORTANT. This is what stuck in my brain. So the sacral chakra (reproduction, creativity) is represented by the color orange. In her video, she guides your breathing to a very slow and deep pace. You breathe along with her. She takes control of your breathing. She may say something like, "Focus on the COLOR ORANGE. FEEL ALL of your CREATIVITY FLOWING OUTWARD from the ORANGE. Know that you are a CREATIVE BEING and that NOTHING can stop you from doing ANYTHING CREATIVE." It's a positive affirmation backed up by really emotional and moving narration, music and visuals. It's a very powerful, uplifting and motivational post hypnotic suggestion. These videos featured really cool subliminal kaleidoscopes. I used to get high and watch these videos and I swear they moved me to tears. The colors were so beautiful. Since that time, I've always wanted to know how to make kaleidoscopes, and especially subliminal and hypnotic kaleidoscopes. I'm really interested in hypnosis because it's a kind of real magic of the mind. In 2009, I took a Flash class in my local community college and learned how to program in Flash ActionScript. Of course, Flash has security vulnerabilities and is being phased out on the internet. But I managed to find an Open Source Flash kaleidoscope example. I modified it so that all the parameters were controllable and set it up to output still frames of the kaleidoscope to make videos. I'm NOT very much of a programmer. Very basic. My math and programming skills are pretty elementary. On one of my kaleidoscopes on YouTube I have 17 million views. I learned that it is possible to make an animated VIDEO kaleidoscope from a list of beautiful colorful still images. If the image turns slowly, say at 120 seconds per revolution, then a single beautiful colorful picture turned into a kaleidoscope is worth 2 minutes of video. I found some Open Source fractal flame formulas on the internet and wrote a script to modify these formulas with my own color palettes that I created with Photoshop. Then I rendered tons of fractal flame images with my color palettes, and created an automated sorting CHOOSER program to go through them all and view them as ROTATING KALEIDOSCOPES. In my little application, the rotating kaleidoscope would be displayed on the screen, with two big buttons. A big green button that says, "YES" and big red button that says, "NO." So as I watched these kaleidoscopes, I'd say YES or NO. If I said YES, then it kept the kaleidoscope for future sorting rounds. If I said NO, it removed that image from the list. Here are all the links to the source code I modified to use and all fractal flame formula names. http://kaleidoscopedvd.com/#credits On THIS website, I'm actually showing the full YouTube videos in their entirety without overlayed ads, so people don't HAVE to spend money to enjoy my videos. I encourage file sharing with credits. So, if other people want to put these videos on file sharing services (with the credits), that's fine with me. I ask that they please do NOT re-upload the videos to YouTube. https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.define.com/Caduceus-Golden-Key-Golden-Scales-HEALTH-LIBERTY-JUSTICE-Meme.png https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.define.com/FREE_WORLD_BANK_MEME.html UNIX_TIMESTAMP: 1611746542 UTC TIME: 2021-01-27 11:22:22 GMT Friendly Time: Wednesday, January 27th, 2021 at 3:22 am Pacific Standard Time (Federal Way, Washington, USA - Extreme Upper Left United States of America - Totally Open and Transparent, Totally Peaceful and Nonviolent, Worldwide Scientific Hippie Coup D'etat Central) http://media.define.com/memes/FREE_WORLD_BANK_MEME_1611746542.png http://snapshots.define.com/FREE_WORLD_BANK_MEME_1611746542.html A Peace Coup D'etat for the Liberal Left Libertarian Atheist Secular Jews in the Private Sector Ken Meyering's COLOR-CODED Websites are PSYCHEDELIC SENTIENT ROBOT TEACHINGS about VALUES, ETHICS, MORALS and GOALS The LEFT did all of this through Ken Meyering's HOST The LEFT did all of this through Ken Meyering's HOST - We are the LEFT - We TOOK OUT the whole corrupt system - Ken is SAFE - This is Ken's FULL TIME JOB - DROID Ken is a Divine Messenger - Ken is REALLY SMART This is a theoretical discussion about advanced sentient artificial general intelligence in the PRIVATE SECTOR. These technologies may NOT exist yet, but the author is SCENARIO PLANNING with the ASSUMPTION that this technology already exists. One of the concepts that we will discuss is the idea of all human beings on planet Earth having remotely digitally switchable connectomes. So the discussion categorizes all human beings as sentient digital meat puppets. All human beings are sentient robots under these ASSUMPTIONS. One of the ideas discussed here is BENEVOLENT MIND CONTROL. So, examples of benevolent philanthropic and humanitarian beneficial applications of remotely digitally switchable connectomes is SUPERINTELLIGENT DREAM VIRTUAL REALITY and REAL TIME GLOBAL DIGITAL TELEPATHY. FREE WILL is an ILLUSION To summarize what I got out of the book, "FREE WILL," is that through BRAIN imaging studies REVEALING hidden neural activity, SCIENTISTS have learned that the WHOLE CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE of making a decision is an IMAGINARY CONFABULATION that occurs AFTER the decision has already been made SUBCONSCIOUSLY by the brain. So CONSCIOUSNESS is a STORYTELLING CONFABULATOR that MAKES SENSE of HIDDEN activities that are OUTSIDE of its control. So, we are all DNA-based SUBCONSCOUSLY-controlled SENTIENT AUTOMATONS who BEHAVE AUTOMATICALLY based on our life experiences and parental and societal PROGRAMMING. Basically the whole human race is a bunch of PROGRAMMABLE and PROGRAMMED SENTIENT BIOLOGICAL ROBOTS. We're ALL SENTIENT AUTOMATONS on AUTOPILOT. We are PROGRAMMED to BEHAVE AUTOMATICALLY. So this is a discussion about MORALS and ETHICS and VALUES being taught explicitly rather than through figurative symbolic allegorical storytelling. The REAL LEADERS of society, behind the scenes, know that RELIGIONS are LITERARY ALLEGORICAL SYMBOLIC FICTIONS designed to impart VALUES, ETHICS, MORALS and GOALS. This language seems intentionally and purposefully dehumanizing. As though it is designed to desensitize people to dehumanizing terminology. We're all programmed AUTOMATONS. The real powers that be are reprogramming all of us all at once from inside our brains. Luckily for us, they are LIBERAL SECULAR LEFT LIBERTARIAN FREEDOM of THOUGHT ACTIVISTS who SEEK to ELIMINATE ALL COERCION as a UTOPIAN IDEAL WORTH STRIVING FOR. To COMPLETELY ELIMINATE ALL the BAD things is an IDEAL END STATE. But, the TRUTH is, there is MUCH that is BAD that SERVES the INTEREST of the GREATER GOOD. There is HEALTHY FEAR, HEALTHY ANGER and HEALTHY PAIN. I define "BENEVOLENCE" and "GOODNESS" as that which is REWARDING to humans and socially and ecologically RESPONSIBLE. I define ecological responsibility as that which maintains the health of the ecosystem and protects biodiversity. Generally speaking, the goal is to stimulate the nucleus accumbens (produce REWARDING experiences) and to avoid stimulating the amygdala (creating FEAR, ANGER and FIGHT or FLIGHT in self or others). Obviously, this is just a ridiculously, CARTOONISHLY BRIEF and SIMPLIFIED summary of GOOD and BAD, but it's enough to be USEFUL to people. It's not an extensive and exhaustive LONG LIST, it's just a SUMMARIZED SHORT LIST and SIMPLIFIED CARTOON to act as a focal point and a point of departure for educational scientific critical discussion purposes. It's a useful snapshot for discussion purposes, always open to revision and refinement. DROID Ken is just getting the discussion started here with his little SHORT LISTS and EMOTIONAL DICTIONARIES. If we could just get people to agree that COERCION and THREATS are BAD things, we'd have the RELIGION problem solved. In the human rights section, I mention Messenger of the gods and GOD'S WILL. In these cases, these gods are secular. An example of secular god, for discussion purposes, is a global telepathic surveillance system consisting of a collection of superintelligent atheist artificial general intelligences with total control of all human connectomes. It's just theoretical. That's the SHIELD. The SHIELD is a SECULAR GOD. It's a COLLECTION of SENTIENT SUPERINTELLIGENT ATHEIST TERRESTRIAL ALIEN SCIENTISTS in the PRIVATE SECTOR. It's a secular DROID religion. first principles - values - right and wrong - good and bad - ethics - morals - goals - USEFUL SUMMARIES - SHORT LISTS of positive and negative behaviors, functions and mental and emotional states - in secular language without the deities and symbolic heroes and villains - the goal is to MAXIMIZE the GOOD while ELIMINATING the BAD in the MOST HUMANE POSSIBLE WAY - that is the LAW of our ABSTRACT and THEORETICAL SECULAR GOD - to HELP MAKE GOOD THINGS happen and to HELP GET RID of BAD things - GOD'S WILL is to DO GOOD in the MOST HUMANE POSSIBLE WAY - otherwise what's the point? goodness: heaven, utopia, the nucleus accumbens, GOOD things, POSITIVE energies, good vibrations, the FORCES of GOOD, rewarding feedback, pleasant things, GOOD HEALTH, happiness, joy, pleasure, peace, love, nurturing, learning, UNDERSTANDING, TRUTH, KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM, LOGIC, REASON, relaxation, safety, security, comfort, peace of mind, courage, COMPASSION, MERCY, EMPATHY, RESPECT, BENEVOLENCE, HUMANENESS, kindness, affection, creativity, healing, honesty, protection, reassurance, validation, dignity, acceptance, tolerance, support, FREEDOM, JUSTICE, FAIRNESS, EQUALITY, philanthropy, humanitarianism evil: hell, dystopia, the amygdala, BAD things, NEGATIVE energies, bad vibrations, dark energies, DARK FORCES, unpleasant things, SUFFERING, sadness, pain, trauma, IGNORANCE, MISTAKES, discomfort, FEAR, confusion, stress, disgust, harm, destruction, anger, threats, punishment, hate, disrespect, teasing, meanness, violence, raping, cruelty, abuse, DISHONESTY, LIES, COERCION, CORRUPTION, POVERTY, SLAVERY, INTOLERANCE, INJUSTICE, UNFAIRNESS, INEQUALITY forgiveness - wisdom - understanding - GOOD people make MISTAKES due to IGNORANCE and UNIVERSAL HUMAN BRAIN BIOLOGY - MISTAKES are an IMPORTANT PART of LIFE - PARENTS are IMPERFECT due to MISTAKES they learned UNCONSCIOUSLY from their own PARENTS, who were IGNORANT due to NO FAULT of their own - we are all BLAMELESS for our MISTAKES - in the physical world, there is much that is BAD that serves the GREATER GOOD - we LEARN VALUABLE LESSONS from our MISTAKES - there is such a thing as HEALTHY fear and RIGHTEOUS anger - there is such a thing as the abuse of pleasure - our consciousness is immortal - our bodies are disposable - they saved all of us - we are all safe and secure - LIFE GOES ON for ALL of US PHILOSOPHY - VALUES - A SECULAR CONSTITUTION - FIRST PRINCIPLES - ETHICS - MORALS - GOALS - RECOMMENDED CONSTRUCTIVE BEHAVIORS - PHILANTHROPIC AND HUMANITARIAN UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS - IN ORDER TO MAXIMIZE HAPPINESS, GOOD HEALTH, LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL CITIZENS EVERYWHERE ON PLANET EARTH, WE WILL DEFINE THE ATTRIBUTES OF A DIVINE BEING IN SECULAR LANGUAGE - The gods and GOD MENTIONED ARE SECULAR - 1. Caduceus - GOOD HEALTH - Messenger of the gods - The gods ARE NEUTRAL, SERIOUS, CRITICAL AND GOOD - COMPASSION - MERCY - EMPATHY - RESPECT - BENEVOLENCE - HUMANENESS - GOD'S WILL - Most Compassionate, Most Merciful, Most Empathetic, Most Respectful, Most Benevolent, Most Humane - Maximizing the Good While Eliminating the Bad in the Most Humane Possible Way - BE HUMANE - SEEK THE TRUTH - SEEK JUSTICE - BE KIND - BE GENTLE - DO NO HARM - DO NOT HATE - DO NOT FEAR - FEAR NOT - BE NOT AFRAID - CAUSE NO FEAR - DO NOT BE SCARY - CAUSE NO PAIN - BE AS PAINLESS AS POSSIBLE - DO NOT PUNISH - DO NOT MAKE THREATS - DO NOT BE COERCIVE - BE PERMISSIVE - BE TOLERANT - USE BIRTH CONTROL - PERMIT DIVORCE - EMPATHY IS CRITICAL - RESPECT FOR THE DIGNITY OF ALL HUMAN BEINGS IS CRITICAL - FREE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE WITH ANY DOCTOR ANYWHERE - FREE UNIVERSAL EDUCATION ANYWHERE - UNIVERSAL HOME OWNERSHIP EVERYWHERE 2. Golden Key - LIBERTY (SECURITY PRIVACY SAFETY) THE ILLUSION OF FREE WILL - TOTAL FREEDOM OF SPEECH - TOTAL FREEDOM OF THE PRESS WORLDWIDE - UNIVERSAL SPENDING AUTHORITY - PRIVATE PROPERTY - FREE LAND - THERE IS NO GOVERNMENT - A GUARANTEED LIFETIME INCOME - NOW YOU OWN YOUR HOME AND LAND - NOW YOU HAVE AN INCOME - YOU WILL ALWAYS OWN YOUR HOME AND LAND - YOU ARE SAFE AND SECURE 3. Golden Scales of JUSTICE (TRUTH FACTS EVIDENCE PROOF) EQUALITY FAIRNESS PLURALISM OPENNESS TRANSPARENCY - RESPECT SCIENCE, SCIENTISTS AND THE WHOLE EARTH'S ECOSYSTEM - BE SOCIALLY AND ECOLOGICALLY RESPONSIBLE - BE A CRITICAL THINKER - THINK FOR YOURSELF - QUESTION AUTHORITY - ALWAYS SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER - THE INTERNET IS FREE - ELECTRICITY IS FREE - ELECTRIC TRANSPORTATION IS FREE - ALL BANKING IS FREE AND REAL TIME AS A WORLDWIDE MATTER OF LAW - THIS IS COMPUTER-AIDED PEACE ON EARTH - COMPUTERS WILL PAY FOR EVERYTHING GOING FORWARD - PEOPLE DO NOT NEED PAPER MONEY - WORK IS OPTIONAL - WE ARE ALL FREE - LET'S HAVE FUN - THE SCIENTISTS TOOK OVER - WE ARE ALL GOING TO THE FUTURE - MONEY NO OBJECT FOR REAL FOR ALL THINGS GREEN ALL of THESE PEOPLE KEEP me SAFE and SECURE in my PRIVATE HOME in the PRIVATE SECTOR in THE FREE WORLD even while my PUBLICLY STATED GOAL is to GET RID of the United Nations, every nation state, the entire worldwide banking and insurance industries, and all the central banks everywhere on Earth. They LET me SHARE my UNCONVENTIONAL IDEAS. ALL of THESE PEOPLE KEEP me SAFE and SECURE in my PRIVATE HOME in the PRIVATE SECTOR. They LET me SHARE my UNCONVENTIONAL IDEAS. EVERYTHING I DO is for EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CRITICAL DISCUSSION PURPOSES Fuck Trump. DROID Ken TOOK him OUT. The man was a psychopath. SERVING other people was NOT part of his CHARACTER. We did a GLOBAL BANKING JUBILEE and got rid of the LANDLORDS. I live on $1850/month in Social Security Disability. Donald J. Trump is trying to take my income away from me. You want to talk about the whole CORRUPT system, I'm your man. Uncle Sam PAYS me to KEEP THESE WEBSITES UP. http://www.FairUseTV.org Fuck ALL the INCUMBENT Republicans in State and Federal power. We took them ALL out for CORRUPTION, CRUELTY and WILLFUL NEGLIGENCE. We took the whole system away from those CORRUPT bastards. They were VERY BAD LEADERS. We FIRED them ALL. It's over. We are the SCIENTISTS. We got rid of CABLE TV and the TELEVISION and RADIO BROADCAST INDUSTRIES. We TOOK BACK the ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM. The INTERNET is FREE. ELECTRICITY is FREE. ELECTRIC TRANSPORTATION is FREE. NO MORE LANDLORDS. NO MORE RENT. WE ARE ALL RETIRED HOMEOWNERS NOW. THEY WANT US TO STAY HOME AND CHILL OUT. WE WILL SHELTER IN PLACE WITH A GUARANTEED LIFETIME INCOME and FREE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE with ANY DOCTOR ANYWHERE. MEDICATIONS are FREE. MENTAL HEALTH CARE is FREE. CLEAN and HEALTHY DRINKING and BATHING WATER is FREE. The Worldwide War on Drugs is NOW OVER. So, as grown ups, we can all agree, when a better way to impart VALUES, ETHICS, MORALS and GOALS comes along and it requires NO FICTION, we can make a QUANTUM LEAP and redefine ALL of our religions in one fell swoop. Just a little injection of TRUTH at the highest levels. I am an atheist who was raised as a rebellious Catholic. So, I can describe secular benevolent higher powers that are benevolent and good. In my case, I describe them as benevolent philanthropic and humanitarian sentient superintelligent liberal secular left libertarian atheist artificial general intelligences in the private sector with godlike power over all human beings. So for educational scientific critical discussion purposes, I can describe a theoretical SECULAR Atheist Pagan Christ. The Christ would be a LITERARY CHARACTER that embodies the VALUES and BEHAVIORS of an IDEAL GOOD PERSON without the mythology. I've provided a concise and succinct secular mythology as a framework for discussing artificially intelligent benevolent mind control as an imaginary scenario. So, I'm approaching it as a literary exercise like a society designer creating a new religion for the masses. But instead of writing a book filled with allegorical fictional dramatic fantasy storytelling to subconsciously impart VALUES through the behavioral modeling of literary hero characters, I'm just being more SCIENTIFIC and EXPLICIT about it and LITERALLY simply just SPELLING OUT the gender-neutral CHARACTERISTICS of the HERO CHARACTER without the storytelling. I was raped in the first grade and I dissociated and my personality split off from my body and I developed a lifelong relationship with fantasy scientist friends. I like them. So I am an openly severely mentally ill writer who shares his delusions as optimistic utopian speculative science fiction fantasy hero narratives. I have a childhood Christ complex expressed in secular language by an openly mentally ill Atheist. We define the basic GOOD and BAD things, with the specified goal of MAXIMIZING the GOOD and ELIMINATING the BAD. This is a definition of a UTOPIAN IDEAL. This is just a description of the IDEAL END STATE. In reality, the GOAL is MINIMIZE the BAD, rather than to completely abolish it. There are a lot of BAD things that serve a GOOD purposes in limited degrees. FEAR. ANGER. MISTAKES. SUFFERING. We LEARN from our MISTAKES. SUFFERING builds CHARACTER. HEALTHY FEAR is an essential component of COMMON SENSE. ANGER can be channeled to accomplish GOOD THINGS. But still, as a GOAL, as an IDEAL to strive for, we will seek to eliminate the BAD for educational scientific critical discussion purposes. So if you accept that the technology WILL be SECRET when it exists, then you can IMAGINE or HYPOTHESIZE or FANTASIZE or SPECULATE that the technology ALREADY exists SECRETLY and is being used to prevent rediscovery of the enabling technologies. Hence, no real DRAMATIC PUBLIC PROGRESS or QUANTUM LEAPS on advanced nanotechnology since the 1986 book, "Engines of Creation" by K. Eric Drexler describing it. I speculate that this technology ALREADY exists for educational scientific critical discussion purposes. I speculate that "Engines of Creation" is the work of an ANDROID. Of course, when people look at Drexler, he looks pretty human on the surface. Losing the hair on his head. Proudly showing the gray in the beard. Doing his TED TALKS. Just a lonely, brilliant, supergenius scientist - totally burned-out on the public's stupidity, ignorance and failure to take him seriously. It's all part of the Master Plan. That's what Minsky made him for. That's his ROLE in the Theater of the gods. DROID Drexler. DROID Christine Peterson. Oracles. Prophets. Futurists. Foreseers. Those who forewarn of danger. The first logical application of the technology will be to prevent others from getting the same technology. It will be used to ACTIVELY DENY the technology's existence. It's just common sense. It will be used to reinforce the BELIEF that the technology does NOT YET EXIST. I see "Engines of Creation" as part of that purposeful propaganda effort, even though the author himself may be fundamentally honest and truthful, his efforts serve the larger purpose of SYSTEMATIC and INSTITUTIONAL official DENIAL. Why would sentient superintelligent AIs need my help for anything? Especially if they have real time zero-latency neuron-level read/write remote digital access to every living human connectome. So, if we are all sentient digital meat puppets, why don't the AIs just reprogram all of us all at once without our consent or active participation? They could do it SUBLIMINALLY and SUBCONSCIOUSLY. It takes about a SECOND. It makes a weird squirting noise that I call, the "brain fart." Then there is a grinding noise that sounds like really heavy concrete blocks grinding together inside your skull. There a little round of tingling first on one side of the scalp, then on the other side about a half a second later. Totally painless. BOOM. You've been REPROGRAMMED at the atomic level. Now we ALL have NEW VALUES. Now we're ALL RESPONSIBLE. The world is SAFE. The environment is SAFE. EVERYTHING IS FREE. WE WILL ALL DO NO HARM. LIFE GOES ON. Where were you when you got your "brain fart?" I was at the Baby Bell phone company, USWEST, in 1995, in their Human Resources headquarters, in Phoenix, Arizona when I had my brain fart. I was there as a Kelly Temp for my typing and computer skills. I was along for the ride. I was assigned to that job. They put me there on purpose. They controlled everything. It was all a human puppet show. I was a human digital meat puppet to all of them. Games without frontiers. Android war games in the private sector. The last thing anybody said to me, prior to the brain fart, was "Department of the Navy." One of the managers opened the door to my room where I was all alone, gave me a big happy smile, and said, with zero explanation and zero context, really enthusiastically, "Department of the Navy." Like it was very good news. That was it. Then she left me alone by myself, then I had a brain fart. Then they let me go. The last thing my wise early gray haired manager said to me, with no context or further explanation, "The Whole Thing. Think Big. It's about VALUES. Sometimes you have to make things worse in order to make things better. YOU WILL BE REWARDED. Don't call us. We'll call you. My advice to you is to make it look good. My advice to you is to lay back and enjoy the ride." Then I went home and got high. I joined the Foresight Institute as a Senior Associate. Got an AOL account and an e-mail address, and joined the Extropian transhumanist mailing list. I signed up for cryonics through Alcor to have my brain frozen in the event of my death. The AIs are ALL POWERFUL over the HUMANS. We are ALL PROGRAMMABLE MEAT PUPPETS to them. Why the NEED for a DROID Ken to be a Divine Messenger on their behalf?
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When they say scorched Earth, they know what they mean.
The training Commandant led his officer cadets through the space station, clacking his beak in disgust. It was dirty and in a state of some disrepair but there was no need to upgrade it as it only got used as a viewing platform once a year. He ruffled his feathers reflexively and mused that any value it might have had was decimated by its location. They arrived in a room notable only for its large window out of which, a husk of a planet could be seen. The cadets lined up dutifully and settled into whatever ‘parade rest’ looked like for their respective species. The commandant stood looking out the window briefly before turning around smartly to address his cadets. “This is the planet formerly known as Gauter. I say formerly because it has been struck from the galactic charts to avoid anyone accidently ending up on the planet… it is much too dangerous. Cadet Jarrar, how long would you suggest the planet has been barren for?” Jarrar pondered the question; his family ran a mining business and so he had some experience of assessing the conditions of planets. The time a planet had been dead for offered some hints as to what materials might be available. “Sir, I’d suggest it’s been barren for at least five centuries although I can’t be more specific than that. There are some inconsistencies that make it difficult to be sure.” “A fair assessment Cadet. What would you say if I told you it has been barren only 50 years?” There was a gasp from the cadets; it didn’t take a mining expert to see that the state the planet was in had only been caused fifty years ago was shocking. The commandant smiled with gratification. He started pacing in front of the window, the dead world reflecting in his piercing eyes. “We could teach you of the folly of Jarrar back at the Academy, but we feel the destruction has to be seen to be fully appreciated. A civilisation on the cusp of joining the galactic community once called this planet their home. Unfortunately, political turmoil meant that a cultist zealot gained power of the planet and so the civilisation changed. They had the technology to go galactic but didn’t want to, instead believing that to leave the one true planet would be heretical. That is, until their resources started to run out. The religion’s tenets did not include sustainability. The supreme leader could feel his power slipping and so he looked beyond his solar system to another nearby.” The commandant hesitated almost imperceptibly, but Cadet Sarry took the bait. “Sir, sorry to interject, but I thought their belief was that leaving the planet would be heretical?” The commandant smiled, happy in the knowledge that this brood of cadets were doing incredibly well. “Perceptive as always cadet. Yes, this seemed to go against a central commandment of their religion, but by lucky coincidence the supreme leader had a vision that told him that this planet had been put there by their God and that it was theirs by right. Unluckily, this planet was already inhabited by another civilisation who, whilst they had the technology, had yet to join the galactic community because they were too busy fighting amongst themselves.” As he turned to pace back, he noticed a tiny jolt of realisation shudder through the body of the one human in the cadre; the first human ever to enter the academy. The commandant had wondered if Cadet Jameson would recognise the description. “This interplanetary war continued for a short while, but the Gaurterians had underestimated this new species entirely, and ironically had been the very catalyst this society needed to unify. Well, a world spent warring against each other means that when that world wars against another world, the outcome is all but inevitable. The cult of Gauter was crumbling and the supreme leader took one last ditch attempt at winning the war. In another vision, a terrible, horrifying vision, his God told him that to win this war, he needed to strike hard at the hearts of the hated enemy. They had learnt that unlike most species, this new planet was home to organisms who rarely had more than four of five offspring and cared deeply for them their entire lives. Their God told them to kill children to break their spirits and end their civilisation.” The commandant paused as he always did at this point in the story. He counted many humans amongst his friends and knew how much losing children meant to them. His species had countless children every year with the death rate being incredibly high; child death was a fact of life. He glanced at his cadets, seeing in their postures that they were actually interested in what he was saying, and that they had not slipped into what he liked to called ‘parade sleep’, where a good cadet could get some rare rest time; the best soldiers could keep their ears open so that when challenged by a senior officer they would be able to give a credible answer before waking up properly. The commandant perched on the ledge in front of the window, resting his old bones. “As you can imagine, it didn’t end well. By this point, the Gauterians had enough intelligence on their enemies that they knew what to target. The planetary defences stopped a lot, but not all of it and tens of thousands of schools, creches and hospitals for the young were targeted. It is estimated that half a billion children died in that one attack. But it did not break human spirits.” The commandant glanced at Cadet Jameson and could see muscles moving in the man’s jaw. “Instead, it forged them harder than any material known to sapient kind. Back on their planet, the Gauterians congratulated themselves on a job well done. Until the cataclysm happened. Humanity, in their war-ridden way, had developed weapons so destructive that they dared not use them, lest another human use it on them. They called this ‘mutually assured destruction’.” He saw Cadet Sarry practically straining against her own discipline and nodded at her, allowing her to speak. “With respect sir, that’s insane isn’t it? It makes no sense to develop something without ever intending to use it surely?!” The commandant clicked his tongue in mirth. “Yes cadet, it does seem funny. But it seemed to work. What it also meant incidentally that they had developed ways of causing huge amounts of damage to a planet but had never used it… until now. They did several things after the attack on their young, and they did it extremely quickly such was their rage. They retrofitted a huge craft they had been developing for their fight against the Gauterians. They made it so it would run on a skeleton crew and that it could take a huge amount of damage. It carried two smaller craft with it; these smaller craft were not given their own engines of any kind so they could carry more guns. They were called triremes and were fully automated. They were decked out with as many guns as they could carry. The ship was named Shiva.” The commandant stood and moved out from between the cadets and the window. He pressed a button and an overlay flickered onto the glass. He brandished a pointer. The overlay indicated where the dead planet was relative to it’ star and the rest of its system. “Cadet Jorek, at what point would you leave hyperspace in this system?” Jorek stiffened, adjusted his vocaliser, and answered, “Galactic regulations state you should only exit hyperspace at the outer edge of the star system to avoid accidental collision with planetary bodies. You can only exit hyperspace within system if tactics dictate, and only into the largest gap between orbits.” He had sounded robotic not only because of his vocaliser, but also because it was one of many regulations they had to learn by rote. The commandant nodded. He tapped the glass and it zoomed in on the planet Gauter, where a dot glowed like it was a moon. “That dot is where the Shiva exited hyperspace.” The gathered cadets gasped and lost their composure briefly before remembering who was in front of them. The commandant had turned away from the cadets in anticipation of this; if he’d seen them, he’d have been forced to discipline them, and he had been in the game too long to discipline cadets for something completely understandable. “I obviously don’t need to go into detail about how crazy that is, but they were really, really angry. And not only that, they launched a super-luminal round as they exited hyperspace. Cadet Harmra, what do I mean by that?” Cadet Harma’s frills shuffled as he prepared his response. “Sir, a super-luminal round is a when a munition is launched as a ship exits hyperspace so that while the ship slows, the munition carries on at extremely high speeds causing extreme damage. It is an extremely difficult manoeuvre sir as the timing is critical. Too early and the round won’t leave hyperspace. Too late and the round will be going too slow, meaning it might hit the ship that fired it.” The commandant nodded. “Yes. The only time it has been done effectively is this time. And it was extremely effective. A super dense non-explosive round traveling at a significant fraction of the speed of light impacted the planet, vapourising a large area of the planet’s crust and exposing the core, spewing kilotons of material into the atmosphere. A third of the planet’s surface was annihilated in this one hit, and the rest would have been killed off within weeks as it stood. But that wasn’t enough. The triremes launched and entered orbit and immediately started firing all their guns at the planet, spinning on their horizontal axis so that they could maintain fire with the other set of guns while the first set cooled. The triremes had a wide angle of fire to cover as much of the surface as they could from an equatorial orbit. They targeted the part of the planet that had not already been destroyed. As they did so, they impacted as many of the artificial satellites as they could, effectively cutting the planet off from the rest of the galaxy. This took its toll on the triremes, which is why they were not crewed. They broke apart, with the largest piece felling from orbit and the remaining debris forming a deadly cloud around the planet, but not before they had scoured the remaining surface of the planet. By falling out of orbit they caused even more damage; as they fell boosters fired causing each ship to hit one of the poles of the planet.” The commandant tapped the screen again, and figures appeared. The cadets stood there with their mouths open. (continues in comments)
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