I have the ability to work with meaning in source code. I have never met or heard of someone else able to do this. That is why I am so alone. This ability has the potential to provide benefits to thousands of companies, teams, customers, products, services etc. I have developed techniques for doi...
To start with, you need to be able to explain to people- both developers and laypersons, what exactly you mean by "ability to work with meaning in source code". To me that just sounds like "I can code and have a high opinion of myself."
At this risk of coming across as one those people with a blank stare: what exactly do you mean? How do you define "the ability to work with meaning in source code"? I assume this is related to your earlier question How can I find work in a new sub-field that I have invented for my profession? Are you asking that same question again here?
You're obviously talking to the WRONG people about what you are doing. If this skill is as you say, it could potentially be very profitable for you but clearly in your current position it's nearly worthless. Figure out WHO pays the bills for the problem you solve and then present it to THEM. You may want to consider leaving your current position to pursue this full time.
@jonrgrover, Your github project has zero documentation and zero explanation. That's going to be a problem. Would you be willing to try out sites like leetcode.compramp.com or binarysearch.com Those sites would be ways for you to measure your skills against the skills of others.
From your example, it sounds like a Data Analyst, although a data analyst also knows the business rules that turn knowing the top three toppings into something useful for the business, or make the business work more efficiently.
Based on the specifics mentioned, it sounds like you've developed a rudimentary Neural Network application. That's pretty cool, but is far from a unique skill. There's lots of research being done and which has been done on this sort of thing, and lots of companies invested in such research and applications. Perhaps you'd be well-served trying to find and applying to some of those companies?
@jonrgrover, There is no need to delete your question. You can just edit it. We want to help you. We really do. But your own ego may be getting in the way.
@jonrgrover Have you tried taking your application to an expert in AI and asking them what they think of it? What did they say? It's not impossible (and in fact very likely) that you developed a technique that was developed 25 years ago, used, and since long been discarded in favor of better techniques. It's really cool and "unique" to you because you built it by yourself absent of any other domain knowledge, but to those with knowledge, you just built a vacuum-tube computer in the age of microprocessors which is why nobody cares.
@jonrgrover Stop making excuses. If you want people to use and understand your work, you need examples. You are doing yourself a disservice by not having them.
@jonrgrover, No, I wouldn't go that far. I think you should read Mastery by George Leonard. That book has an anecdote that might apply to you. It's about a black belt in Karate who's unable to learn Hapkido very well (unlike other students) because he's unwilling to become a student again. In other words, it's his mastery in one area that prevents him from moving forward in another area. And it's his unwillingness to look like a bumbling fool all over again that prevents him from moving forward.
@jonrgrover: I am going to say something which I don't say lightly, and I am sorry to say it. I am going to get hammered for it here, and you won't accept it. I am going to say it anyway, in all seriousity: please seek professional psychological counseling - this may save your life. (i am not going to refer you to the literature which covers concepts which sound similar - i can only tell you that i have met many, many, many people like you, actually some of them had a very similar misconception about their skills and inferiority of other peoples work, and many had the same grandiose tone).
@jonrgrover hey there. I may be wrong but your new concept somehow reminded me of the following topics: Software-defined networks, graphQL, semantic web (all of them related to the fact of doing things top to down, as in metadata/meaning to the specifics)... perhaps that will ring a bell to you and enable you to articulate this in a better way to potential investors/etc.
@jonrgrover, Yes in tech, these feelings can be especially brutal. You can feel like a master and a superman one day, and you can feel like an absolute newbie a week later. That's what I meant by ego.
@jonrgrover You say you've interviewed and presented your application to many companies. How many of them were AI companies, or work in AI roles? How many interviewers have you had who were specialists in AI? Apply to AI positions; even if the interview goes poorly then at least you can make a LinkedIn connection and pick their brain about the topic. The first thing to ask them would be "am I building something novel or something silly?", and go from there.
What would the benefits of using your method be? Regular methods seem to be fine and using a method that is only usable by you personally sounds like a great way to reduce the bus factor to 1.
@jonrgrover: so i suppose you are checked for dissociative disorders and narcissistic personality disorder. I just checked your github repository and it's not striking me as particularly brilliant. One thing which would help, would be if you would add a small examples where you actually show the specific advantage.
@GregoryCurrie: Please no irony here, i am not sure jonrgrover gets it. I think I am smart enough to judge if i am smart enough.
@GregoryCurrie: i voted to close it because we can not address the issue here by answering the question.
@DarkCygnus: Please stop encouraging him. He has delusions about his skills and the rest of the world - have met many people like him and read many CVs which had the same tone to know it before finishing the first line.
@jonrgrover The site isn't a tool to help your deal with whatever mental issues you have. Most of your comments bring it around to some sort of mental issue.
@jonrgrover Your ego and the lack of sample code is the problem. That's it. I doubt you will fix either though.
@jonrgrover There isn't one. This question should be deleted.
@jonrgrover: let me be blunt . You don't have coding skill, and definitely not to program semantically. You ignore other peoples opinion and advice, and previous literature. Your concepts seems like an ill-informed crossing of pieces of misunderstood Pattern mentioned in the Gang of four book, PROLOG, attempts at expert systems from the early 80s. Your class structure seems like OOP using Pascal in the early 90s, lacking everything abstract. Your code lack the most basic formalities in professional SW development, you seem literally not to be able to use an IDE or advanced editor.
@jonrgrover, I guess you don't really mean to be arrogant. I am glad you get help from a professional psychologist twice a week, which is a great thing for you. Just take care of your mental health first. Cheers.
@Sacha, I am not a natural programmer. But my field does not exist. Not much I can do about that. If you compare me to other programmers you will find me lacking. If you compare me to other people in my field you will find no other people. I do not know where I fit into the world. I am open to suggestions. If I am not a programmer, then what am I?
@ComicSansSeraphim Gregory Currie said to delete the question. Was he suggesting I violate the rules? I don't have rights to delete the question. I have deleted what I can.
@jonrgrover: you were the one asking about a self-perceived unique one in a million skill. So, if you feel not like a programmer, SW architect or computer scientist, i can no tell you what to do. The only thing I can tell you is that you question should not be "why does nobody want my unique skill", but "is my skill/knowledge really unique"? It's perfectly ok not to be be brilliant, and many valuable and dear colleagues are not brilliant . But it's not ok to claim have unique knowledge and understanding if you have not.
@jonrgrover: It would be healthy if you drop this for a while to get a fresh perspective on it, while accepting that maybe this was not as big as you thought it is.
@Sascha. My unique skill does not have to be unique to me. I would love to teach it to other people. I can see a future in which there are thousands of practitioners of not just my skill, but a hundred other skills in a new field that I would love to me part of. I don't like that it is a skill unique to me right now.
@jonrgrover: before teaching, i think you may have some catch up to do what happened in the last 40 years of computer science.....
And please, for the sake of your employ ability, take your blog offline...... Look up on data models, graph databases, prolog, expert systems. Read the history on the cog project and read up that in the last 10-15 years AI was not "meaning based" any more.
Having comments deleted by the OP, but the responses still there tell me that there was additional information that gives examples, has links, or might clarify the question, but now there isn't.
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