mateornaut

I spent a year as a research assistant for a NASA project optimizing flight paths. Fantastic scientists - but their primary interests were not software.

Our research on GP models was based on Prof Rasmussen's GPML library[0].

At that time GPML was in fortran (or MATLAB?) but our simulator and training code was all Java.

So one of the senior researchers found a random java port on Github and just plugged it in.[1]

[0] https://gaussianprocess.org/gpml

[1] https://github.com/renzodenardi/jpgml

Instagram and WhatsApp also benefit from the work of their parent corp, Facebook. I know people who work on Instagram.com and they consider themselves Facebook employees. So I think maybe those companies are not good comps, or at least a poor apples-to-apples comp when doing headcount: product.