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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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Comparing Russian GDP to Italy understates Russian economic power because it is probably the most autarchic country (maybe North Korea is more autarchic, I would have said the USA too until covid happ…
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A strategic failure is what happened in the Yom Kippur War when the Israeli counterattack penetrated the Egyptian and Syrian front and started attacking the rear. I don't see how gaining 20% of a…
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We'll see. I'm not as optimistic as you. Russia hasn't mobilized all their manpower and its position can change dramatically if the war lasts until winter.
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Aren't they occupying something like 20% of the country? Maybe they're overextended and will lose eventually, but sure seems like they're winning at the moment.
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Interesting, I had no idea Switzerland was governed like that. That book looks interesting too. I will check it out.
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> The nature of ground (or surface naval) warfare will be profoundly changed. This is to bullets and shells what bullets and shells were to pikes. They said this about torpedo boats, submarines, ta…
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It was never intended to be a true democracy and there have never been true democracies that scale up. The New England town meeting is the closest thing to real democracy in the modern world and they …
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Regardless of his view of the ideal form of government (Strauss, among others, has a much different interpretation) his criticisms of democracy and other types of regime hold up and were taken serious…
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Plato thought democracy held the seeds of its own destruction. Hard to argue with him. It's hard to pick a time when the US was more democratic than it is now though.
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How are bandits used in consumer choice problems? Bandits solve almost the inverse problem: which choice to offer/take when it's uncertain which is best, but the problem under consideration …
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It's definitely one of the cooler ideas but there are much easier ways to make money if that's one of your primary goals.
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Interesting. I'll have to look into it more closely. Sounds like the "climate crisis" (don't like that term but everyone knows what it means so it's convenient) is basically s…
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I doubt renewables are cheaper once they start making up a majority of the supply (except in small countries that can get most electricity from hydropower). Sure batteries or other storage technology …
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You can do all but the most cutting edge engineering on your own. People still build cars and planes in their garages. Lots of amateur radio hobbyists build their own radios. Even if you got an engine…
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Ooops, you're right, but it's too late to update the URL, which should be https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/obvious-technical-solutions/ …
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I mean, I personally know people who have done it at the SBIR level and there is definitely more VC interest recently than say 10 years ago.
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I don't know how big the market is but there is at least one multibillion dollar company (ESRI) in the space. I think they have products targeted at most major industries. The US has at least two…
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Because if you look at the countries that have high social mobility many of them have had authoritarian governments in the past/present. Japan, China, and Germany are the most obvious examples.
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How would that explain it? Past authoritarianism seems a poor predictor of social mobility in the modern world.
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He doesn't have the ego though.
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I'm pretty sure Europe has the same pattern as America. It's not a European vs. America thing.
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Linear algebra stuff makes it to the front page more often than other types of math I think, so I don't know that people are more interested homotopy. Although homotopy is probably overrepresente…
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The median American has ~5 sexual partners. So unless they're having a lot of sex with those partners when they're dating, marriage is still the biggest driver. I would bet the median person…
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"Ctrl-F Marriage" gives no results. Surely decrease in marriages is the biggest driver. It's a lot easier to have sex with someone if you live with them. A straight person isn't go…