Einar Volsett

And I was like, yeah, this is not for me.

And then like partly also I was like, I needed to be sort of closer to impact.

Like, I think that's part of the problem is you look at some of this research that gets done and you're like, what, like, this is an interesting academic challenge, like an interesting mental, um, you know, problem and difficult and all that stuff.

But it's like, what is the use case?

Like very often it's like, uh,

it has to be such a convoluted set of situations for this, for the restrictions that have been put in place on the problem to apply that it's such a narrow set of things that it can apply to.

That's part of the problem.

Like I did my PhD in something called mobile ad networks, which are,

okay, imagine that you don't have any kind of wireless infrastructure.

You just have a bunch of, well, most of this was military funded.

So you just basically imagine you have a bunch of Humvees just driving around the desert and all they have is peer-to-peer communication.

And they're sort of, you know, not everyone is in reach of everyone else.

How do you communicate?

Like, how do you share data in the appropriate way?

And I could nerd out about this.

But realistically, like,

How often is there such a case where there is no wireless infrastructure and you can't put one up and there's probably no satellite?

That's an extremely low number of cases.

Because even when the U.S.,

ran into Iraq, fair enough, they didn't have base stations with them then, but they just had mobile base stations, basically, and overhead AVAX flights and things.