<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 17 Apr 2013, at 17:53, Louis Goff-Beardsleey <<a href="mailto:louisror@gmail.com">louisror@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><a href="http://www.polygon.com/2013/4/15/4226432/computer-scientist-programs-ai-to-beat-super-mario-other-nes-games" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.polygon.com/2013/4/15/4226432/computer-scientist-programs-ai-to-beat-super-mario-other-nes-games</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Saw this guy this morning and was thinking if he would be functional outside of academia. Then saw this thread syncronisticly appear. It’s funny how each day seems to have a theme.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>That's an awesome paper, but let's not make this about him. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Somebody with that kind of way of thinking would be a good asset to the right commercial team, but the right commercial team would perhaps need to be the right gig more so than for people who are a little less academic. </div><div><br></div><div>Leveraging an area that a candidate has a passion for (AI, machine learning, games, etc.), is a smart way to get smart people doing smart things. </div><div><br></div><div>Stick them on a team looking after a simple B2C play with no data mining or research component, and they're going to get bored quickly, more so than somebody who didn't go to Uni and has just been living for shipping product all their lives.</div><br></body></html>