Ryan Peterman

And then they didn't find it trivial.

I think a lot of academic people were like, well, smart people are in academia and the dumb people are in industry.

So if I need to go compete with the dumb people, it will be easy.

And I think there was a lot of that.

But, you know, there was a person, I mean, I gave you an example.

There was a person who was like effectively a CS professor who I interviewed.

And this person, like, could not figure out how to pass values between the various functions that they were calling in the interview.

Like, literally, they were like, what I would do is I would call this function.

It would print out in the REPL.

And it would read it as a human.

And then I would go, like, type it into this other piece of code.

And I was like, oh, you are better at programming than this, right?

Because, like, you're a professor of computer science.

And they're like, no, no, this is how I work.

And I was like, oh.

This is not going to set you up for success if we actually have to get you writing code in broad here.

I love statistics.

I think I'll never not love it, but I think it's the craziest field.

And what I mean by crazy is...

It's a field that fundamentally sells people the idea that they can use statistical methods in real life.