[drallison]

Huh? Seems to me that you should be interested in and learning about all manner of computer related things including Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. Knowledge and techniques useful in one context are generally useful in other contexts. The ability to see structure and similarities across systems and applications is invaluable.

[distsysdude]

I'm not quite sure about that. For example, I dont think any major Database vendor has considered using ML algorithms inside a DB. Google did try replacing B-Tree indexes with Neural networks, but that was only a research project and it wouldn't have been possible to scale it up to meet production demands.

But I think I understand where you're coming from and I should definitely try to widen my knowledge base.