Leon Khoshnevis

Today we placed posters around the country telling the story of what it means to Become a Rainmaker. Modifying the weather requires frontier research. Meteorology, physics, machine learning, solid state radar and optics systems, we are hiring for across all these disciplines But, no amount of novel hardware or hours spent in the lab can actually modify the weather unless our systems are tested and deployed by humans in the field Until teams of gritty, relentless, disciplined mountaineers deploy our tech in remote locations during freezing snowstorms—it’s all just theory. And Rainmaker is in the business of contacting reality. So we are hiring teams of Forward Operating Specialists to bring theory into practice again this coming winter. In the hardest conditions imaginable, the FOS is responsible for using all the systems Rainmaker has built. They are Rainmakers in the truest sense of the word. They are the ones who work with nature. They are the ones who modify the weather. Their field work is the final factor determining whether our operations produce more water. It is a tough job in service of a beautiful mission. We are in search of gritty, soulful, dutiful people who want to work with nature, harness the elements, befriend the locals, and bring water where it’s needed most. Become a Rainmaker. More info in the replies.

the best career advice i got came from a robotics professor explaining ε-greedy exploration vs exploitation he was former global head of AI at Samsung. the founders building autonomous vehicles today spun out from his lab. in q-learning you set ε=1 early — pure exploration of the action space — then decay it as you learn which actions exploit the best reward. when you set ε too low to start, your robot rarely finds the optimal solution. he said: you have a life ε too. set it to 1 when you're young. everyone rushing into consulting or big tech is exploiting too early, before they've built a good value function. highest lifelong reward comes from deferring that exploitation.