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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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Seems like we're a long ways off from that giving a big enough improvement to matter.
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Similar things were predicted in the 70s but new sources of energy and improvements in productivity invalidated those predictions. Obviously at some point limits will kick in (unless we can expand to …
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The patent would apply to the model's architecture rather than the trained values so the black box nature of deep learning doesn't matter too much.
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Momentum, value, and size are all predictive of future excess returns. If the weak form were true this would not be the case. And those are just dead simple buy-and-hold strategies that anyone can imp…
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Transaction costs have come down a lot in the past 20 years. 10-20 basis points is probably reasonable for a retail trader with a good broker. Double that for a round trip trade.
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I still don't see how that is a real link between the research that was done over 40 years later at Bell Labs in New York and New Jersey (where most of the important research took place). It is a…
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I think that's a pretty big stretch. I don't see a direct link between the award Alexander Graham Bell got in 1880 and the research output of Bell Labs in the 1940s. Bell Telephone existed a…
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I don't see how that is a refutation of what I wrote. For every example that people can point to of how government funding creates innovation you can point to a private example too. Heavier than …
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Only for a few industries, mostly the ones that took off around WWII.
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Money Creation in the Modern Economy. By Michael McLeay, Amar Radia and Ryland Thomas of the Bank’s Monetary Analysis Directorate. Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin. Q1, 2014. The Man Who Knew: The L…
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> We don’t need a 17th bottled water brand at CVS or a 28th CliffBar competitor at Walgreens. We need our best and brightest people working on important problems that wouldn’t be solved otherwise. …
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Energy generation isn't really decentralizing in a meaningful way. Sure individuals can have their own solar panels or wind turbines (and for many people this makes sense), but the most efficient…
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In the past there was a lot more local production. It switched to centralized production because that was cheaper and people valued cheap over custom. I doubt that will change anytime soon. Also a lot…
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There are probably economically exploitable deposits of most of these minerals left, but the current business environment disincentivizes exploration and the political situation in many of the countri…
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Too reductive. If you go to places like Weber County, Utah there's lots of human connection and it's also built for cars. There are lots of things causing people to feel lonely in the modern…
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I think ageism is overstated. What happened is way more young people entered the field since the industry has grown so rapidly over the past few decades. So it looks like there are no old programmers …
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Casinos print money too and farms don't. The amount of cash a business throws off is only somewhat related to how much work it requires and how useful it is.
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I don't think that the collapse of the serotonin hypothesis means that SSRI's don't work, just that they don't work via increasing serotonin levels.
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Agism is probably somewhat overestimated because there are a lot more young people entering the industry than there were 30 years ago. So it looks like a lot of old people were pushed out, but they we…
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Most of the hard problems in the world aren't technical and the ones that are have lots of people working on them.
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They were successful long before they had those public funds though.
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I like newsletters for rarely updated blogs. I prefer RSS/Atom (most blogs still have it actually) but sometimes a newsletter is the only thing that's available.
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Because getting big is only somewhat related to technical skill.
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We'll see, pundits have been predicting a turning tide since a few weeks into the war. Hasn't happened yet.
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Energy usage increases in the winter because of heating. That will cause price increases which will put pressure on European politicians to resolve the war.