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jeffreyrogers
11,353karma·2,915submissions·March 8, 2014
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Hedge Fund -> Defense Industry -> Big Tech
My career has mostly been at the intersection of hardware and software (including a couple of years designing FPGA gateware) and focused on designing and developing correct, performant systems, but I've been paid to do everything from PCB design to React frontends.
I also have an interest in improving clinical trials for novel therapeutics.
email: jeffreyrogers27@gmail.com
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> They're already claiming that Biden, as a private citizen, was an agent of the "deep state" violating the 1st amendment with his shadowy cabal and it's just going to go downhi…
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Thanks. Again, what I claimed was that twitter performed actions at the the request of people affiliated with political parties/campaigns. I didn't make any claims about the content of the t…
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Thanks.
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I don't know what the contents of the tweets are. What the images show are people affiliated with political campaigns asking twitter employees to remove tweets, which is what I claimed originally…
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Do you have any evidence for that? I don't see anywhere where it says what the tweets contain. In either case, the claim I made is that twitter removed tweets and banned accounts at the request o…
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You're getting downvoted but I have heard the same thing directly from addicts. And many prefer fentanyl.
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This tweet and the next one in the thread show exactly that https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598827602403160064 …
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The part where they removed tweets because they were asked to or banned accounts because they were asked to is a pretty big deal. And even though everyone knew they did that it wasn't in writing.…
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Those aren't wild animals.
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The wild animals that become obese are ones that have access to human food and garbage. It's not like fish swimming in the runoff from chemical plants become obese (they develop other disorders b…
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That's my assumption, but I don't know the mechanism by which sperm mutations occur.
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Paradoxical effects are rare and tend to happen only with psychoactive medications. I see very little evidence for paradoxical effects playing a major role, but obviously it can't be ruled out en…
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Google has the expertise to make this in house. There's no moat.
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> In Yorkshire in the 14th and 15th centuries, the age range for most brides was between 18 and 22 years and the age of the grooms was similar; rural Yorkshire women tended to marry in their late t…
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Doesn't the existence of anorexia (which appears to be socially transmissible) and the fact that people who take up hobbies like bodybuilding are able to manage their fat levels well suggest that…
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In western countries historically men were typically a bit older than their wife but the wife usually was fairly young still. Definitely way younger than now. I think the average maternal age in the U…
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There are some complicated UBs that arise when casting to different types that are not obviously logic errors (can't remember the specifics but remember dealing with this in the past).
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These are all good projects but you are underestimating the difficulty of them by a lot. Even something conceptually simple like card counting has a lot of details that are difficult to get right. Jus…
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Because math is a social field as much as it is an intellectual one. What gets rewarded in mathematics is what other mathematicians respect. What other mathematicians respect is math that is hard, rig…
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I read that book when I was pretty young, maybe 12 or 13. I'm not sure if I understood everything in it at the time but it started my fascination with computers.
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APL derivatives (like q) seem to have a niche use in the finance industry for processing time series data. I've played around with J (another APL derivative) and it was interesting. I could see i…
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Yes I think this is more likely to be correct. And Alameda started making directional bets back in 2020 at least: https://twitter.com/AlamedaTrabucco/status/13851809411867893…
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The only real use case for crypto has always been buying drugs online (and other, similarly illegal things that normal payment processors won't touch). Tons of hot air has been generated proposin…
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SBF said he disagrees with kelly bet sizing because his utility function is closer to linear: https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1337250702104485893 …
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They have been taking directional bets since 2020 at least: https://twitter.com/AlamedaTrabucco/status/13851809411867893... …
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The books and articles by Ed Thorpe are a good place to start.
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There are known expired strategies that generated large profits for long periods of time. In some cases the people involved in developing the strategies have directly published things explaining what …
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Yes, but you might think it will appreciate less than other people do and expect to make money by selling calls on average.
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Probably depends on the company and circumstances in which you were laid off.