It’s a little wierd now that I’ve been working on actual published software for a few years, as opposed to research, to see actual products I’ve worked on in the wild, and to read reviewers’ comments where I know exactly what the software in question does, because I wrote it.<\/p>\n
Andrea & I have just put our place on the market, and are looking for a new place, and we’ve been getting lots of real estate listings from our agent.<\/p>\n
What makes this relevant is that a couple of years ago, during a lacuna in employment between computational linguistics research and game development, I worked for a company whose software is used by half the realtors in North America. And indeed it turns out that the printouts we’ve been getting were made by that software.<\/p>\n
Now I’d like to say that I know exactly what the software that made those printouts does, but the software in question is a vast and terrible jungle of recursive and self-modifying spaghetti code without end. I must confess I quit that job partly out of fear of ever being asked to work with it.<\/p>\n
I much prefer physics and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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