What is the difference between the inventor of a perpetual motion machine and just an inventor?

Then I suggest that he write an email to the author of qsort in the GCC library. He refuses because the open-source community is terrible for him, he wants to work with serious large commercial companies. And he says, “Well, if that’s the case, I’ll contact venture funds!”

What do I tell him:

“Of course, write to venture funds! They receive ten emails a day with fifty-page business plans written by marketing consultants who charge one hundred thousand dollars for drawing up each business plan (I’m not talking in the abstract, I went through this and got investments in due time, therefore I know the inner workings). What I mean is that it is usually difficult for partners of a venture fund to read these business plans with an explanation of TAM (total available market), TSM (total serviceable market) and SUCA (Sustainable Unfair Competitive Advantage). ) – and they will probably be happy with a simple half-page letter about the new sorting with a link to GitHub. Especially if you require an NDA from them (venture capitalists do not sign NDAs as a matter of principle. If they answer you, be sure to let me know.”

What can you do to become a successful inventor, and not an inventor of a perpetual motion machine?

It's very simple: get a normal engineering education based on common sense and modern industrial practices. This Saturday, October 5, registration for the School of Digital Circuit Synthesis begins in many cities of Russia and Belarus.

“School” is an initiative for the rapid modernization of Russian education in the field of design of digital microcircuits and computer architecture, it is the development of fundamental technologies that are used by engineers from Apple and NVidia, as well as Russian companies Syntacore, Elvis, Baikal, Milander and others – to create their microprocessors and systems on a chip!

For the last 30 years, the digital logic of microprocessors, GPUs, and network chips is not drawn with a mouse on the screen, but is synthesized from code in the Verilog and VHDL hardware description languages. Here's a short cheat sheet on how it differs from programming: