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Re: What do they REALLY do at the Janelia research campus in Ashburn?
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Billion $ man
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Date: December 29, 2016 12:44PM
It's where they develop state of the art technology in acoustics and lyrical algorithms to implant in Meade Skelton later on to make him a bigger and better entertainer.
Re: What do they REALLY do at the Janelia research campus in Ashburn?
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Martin Brice
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Date: January 04, 2017 07:21PM
The people that work there probably don't even know the ext not of things.
From Quora:
Working there is more fun than in Universities because you are not expected to manage teaching alongside research, the near-unlimited budgets, private HHMI funding and large-systems support are just the icing on the cake. Their software/CS group and middle management support sucks. I still don't see the point of the security. Bob's food sucks if you are a vegan. There's absolutely nothing to do close by (except maybe collect insects). The isolation does get tiring. I have heard of two suicides (hearsay) in the immediate support staff (non-research, not related to work but for personal reasons [some love triangle/suicidal depression thing]).