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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by alfalfasprout on Monday February 03, 2025 @07:47PM (#42925770)
That's a completely different type of "analysis" and on a completely different scale. The skillsets are not even remotely comparable.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by fastball on Monday February 03, 2025 @10:37PM (#42927554)
I'm glad you've done both and are here to weigh in! Perhaps you should join the cause as you are presumably a subject matter expert in both things?
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by vitajex on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @02:26AM (#42929225)
You're more confident about that than I am. I find it easy to imagine how a person who produces the first kind of analysis could be technically useful in analyzing government data. He presumably didn't know anything about ancient scrolls before working on the first thing, so he has a track record of conquering a steep learning curve.

But we don't actually know what they're doing.

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