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Re:Ask HN: Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why? by pjc50 on Thursday October 11, 2018 @11:28AM (#18194292)
It seems mad that something like "ingredient parsing" could ever be a business; on the other hand, a decade ago I was sharing a house with a PhD student who was trying to do effectively the same thing with chemistry papers to extract relevant formulae. Worked well for clearly defined things like "1,1,1-trichloroethane", less well for colloquial things like "formaldehyde" or, god help you, "lead".

(Is a "lead researcher" the head of your team, a person researching the properties of the metal Pb, or a researcher made out of that heavy grey metal? This is practically an unsolved computational linguistics problem)

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Re:Ask HN: Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why? by logfromblammo on Thursday October 11, 2018 @12:06PM (#18194667)
Lead (/leed/) researcher - most senior of your research team.

Plumbologist - a person researching lead (/led/).

Plumbous researcher - researcher made primarily from lead (/led/). Probably an AI that deeply resents the materials-based engineering flaws in its processor core and robotic reality interface.

Lead (/leed/) plumbologist - most senior of a research team investigating lead (/led/).

Plumbous plumbologist - aforementioned AI, but dedicated to self-improvement.

Lead (/leed/) plumbous plumbologist - most senior of a group of lead-constructed (/led/) AIs, investigating the mystery of why the human progenitors chose such a bad metal for building robots.

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Re:Ask HN: Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why? by jkchu on Thursday October 11, 2018 @04:26PM (#18196775)
Well that clears that confusion up :)
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