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The job you couldn't do
Everyone is asking which jobs AI will take. The more useful question is the inverse.
I'm not a physicist. I'm a software engineer who's been obsessed with astronomy and cosmology my whole life and never had the credentials to do real research. Then three things showed up in eighteen months and the on-ramp got short. The inverse question to "which jobs is AI taking" is the more interesting one.
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Why this moment in independent research will never come again.
I ran an autoencoder on 17.65 million spectra from DESI DR1. It found 195,829 objects that don't match any known pattern. The total compute cost was about $200. Why hasn't anyone done this before? Five things had to be true simultaneously — and they only became true recently.
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