Billy Wilson: Translating language skills to technical skills. [HPC] [Career Notes]
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🗓️ 13 October 2024
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Cyberwire Network, powered by N2K. |
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| 1:00.5 | My name is Billy Wilson. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm a high-performance computing systems administrator at Brigham Young University. Some of my earliest notions were actually writing. |
| 1:14.6 | I was really interested in being a writer. |
| 1:17.6 | And that still persists to this day that when I have opportunities in time, I like to write. |
| 1:23.6 | It kind of resonates with me. |
| 1:26.6 | When I was 19 years old, I went on an ecclesiastical mission from my church out to South Korea |
| 1:32.3 | and spent a couple years in that country, you know, learning a new language. |
| 1:36.3 | And then, after that, it came to BYU as a student, and I studied linguistics in Korean continuing that interest. |
| 1:49.0 | Learning languages, being able to communicate, that's a huge part of tech because those language skills translate to technical skills. |
| 1:59.0 | When you're sitting at a command prompt or writing |
| 2:01.7 | scripts so on and so forth we're trying to interpret data so i graduated and it was in the middle |
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