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Hello, my name is Allocthon - I'm a geoscientist in Texas in the oil industry. I am in my 40's and have programmed in C++/C, Fortran 77/90, and recently Python 3. I am teaching myself C# and Java. I'm not sure how much I'll use it at my job but I really enjoy learning new languages. I'm pretty rusty at my C/C++ but this site has been helping me to brush up on it. I am also active on ProjectEuler, so if you're on there as well send me a message!
Allochton, Hi!
Thanks for your greeting message! I wonder what are your general activities/duties as a "geoscientist"? Is it like modelling crust structure according to data from seismic and drilling tests? Does it involve programming - or most tools are ready already and it is more matter of wisely using this tricky stuff and finding whimsical conclusions?
Curious thing is that I also worked for Texas (Houston) based company during last year, but quit it recently, before considering business trip to headquarter. I'm also close to my 40's and thus rushing over the globe is not olways convenient. Hopefully I'll have more spare time after retirement... :)
I'm not sure how much I'll use it at my job
Of course it is a wild/blind guess, but I dare suppose that if your job/career will evolve towards bigdata/datascience
fields (which nowadays spread their tentacles to more and more industrial and commercial branches) - then your Python 3
may be quite valuable, as it seem to take the place of Fortran/Matlab - it seems to me even that some libraries
have migrated directly (like scipy and mathplotlib). And as for "heavy ground" under it, most bigdata infrastructure
is in Java or Scala (which is Java-based language).
I also was a ProjectEuler fan, but only got to about 50 problems so far... They are becoming quite tricky... And that was inspiration behind this site... :)
Seismic data processing - lots of Kirchhoff pre-stack depth migrations and reverse time migrations - although I have done seismic acquisition and velocity based pore-pressure predition. Background was in Physics for undergraduate and graduate school - but big oil was paying (and still is) too well to stay in academia. I get to program some, usually Python (daily), occasional C++ (more at another company I was at where we had to write interfaces). I'm hoping to change over to geophysical software/visualization if seismic data processing goes down the tubes ;)
Anyway, I am enjoying this site immensely and suggested it to some co-workers.
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