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Congrats Geoff! Your advice and the empathy associated with it has been very helpful as we evolved out of YC. Glad to know the future batches will continue to be in great hands :)

Love the idea and the way you guys are going about it. All the best and congratulations on the launch :)

> If I could do it over again, I'd have dropped out of grad school in Year 1.

Haha. I can see how you are trying to take on the current education system itself. To some extent, the education system has failed us to some extent.

BioPhysics was all the rage in my university few years ago. I haven't heard much after, but genetics and big data have been at the forefront for a while now. There have been a bunch of recent YC companies in this intersection as well.

> I run the team that builds software for Google's quantum computers

Is there any significant difference to payscale and hierarchical autonomy in these non AI research teams? I am assuming distributed privacy preserving ML team (is this team close to federated learning one?) also falls under more non AI research teams right?

I was recently reading about single pixel cameras and went further deep into UED cameras. The promise of what potentials they can unlock is amazing.

I have a bachelors and Masters (2013, with Non Linear Dynamics as MS thesis) in Physics. Have always loved the field and the mathematical rigor involved. However, chose a strategic consultant job as the pay was very lucrative. Got disillusioned in a year and pursued a masters in CS/AI and worked after for an year in ML. Started a company and got acquihired into an engineering managerial role after.

Looking back perhaps one major regret I have is how far and fast I am moving away from fundamental sciences. I don’t think I can leave the bay area or coding anytime soon, but nonetheless, I have started to look out for ways to stay involved with the world of physics in as many ways possible

(OP here) Quite amazed to see the number of physicists here and it is very heartening to see so many of you doing so well in such a wide variety of fields. Especially since during my college days physics was considered to be a slightly dangerous choice from a job/career growth perspective

was this the year Relu became mainstream? the paper itself was out there few years before too right

Doesn't seem there's anything wrong with the approach. Why would you want to leave money on the table anyway?

I often question if putting so much blame just on her while treating her investors with a lens of victoimhood is a good idea? For all I know, Theranos was a vicious death spiral which grew so big purely because there were a ton of investors writing big checks to Holmes either without doing basic due diligence or being knowingly complicit in the lackings of the company. Their checks were the reason Holmes got empowered so much in the first place and dared to think that she is perhaps on the right path and could continue pulling off a fraud.

As an ex-founder who was mad about side projects, I can tell you in hindsight, if you start a side-project, definitely make sure you enjoy what you are doing. The joy is in the process and not the destination. Otherwise, you will just burn your way through and destabilize your relationships unnecessarily as well.