I had a wide-ranging conversation today with Rob Simcoe (MIT) about connections between my group in New York and his group in Cambridge MA. He does complex hardware. We do principled software. These two things depend on each other, or should! And yet few instruments are designed with software fully in mind, in the sense of making good, non-trivial trades between hardware costs and software costs. And also few software systems are built with deep knowledge of the hardware that produces the input data. So there are synergies possible here.
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