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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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Looks like it's basically the same as sqlite3 except it fixes a couple odd things that sqlite3 has for legacy reasons (namely, in sqlite 3 foreign key support is disabled by default and needs to …
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Something like this is beginning to be accepted. At least that's the impression I got from the eye doctor when I had PRK surgery. FWIW I had 20/15 vision until starting college and consequen…
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Why would it continue to function if divided up? The latency between components has now increased dramatically and you've also introduced new attack surfaces (those devices get their power from s…
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Why could you not just unplug it? Any AI is going to need to interface with the external world. It's probably going to be quite large as well and require lots of power + networking. That leaves i…
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There's still so much basic research to be done that I doubt this will be a limiting factor for a while.
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> Assuming antibiotics still work in 20 years The Soviet Union tried to create antibiotic resistant bacteria as part of its bioweapons program. They were able to increase antibiotic resistance but …
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Sometimes it is easier to find books by searching "<book name> amazon" than it is to actually search for it on Amazon's site.
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Most older machine learning techniques work with "small data". Most of the literature pre deep learning is on those techniques and what problems they work well for.
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PE might be unsavory but I don't see how it is a ponzi scheme.
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Well brain size is clearly not the main driver behind intelligence because it's only roughly correlated with intelligence in humans.
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I would be interested in seeing your calculations, but so far every time I've seen someone criticize the article you're referring to they refuse to do any calculations to support their argum…
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If you've done a calculation like his I'm interested in reading it. It is hard to evaluate your argument against his since you've made no quantifiable claims.
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Yep, that's what I was thinking of. (I think he has a couple of other posts along the same lines).
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> In fact, the greatest threat to long-term economic growth might be the slowdown in population growth... Without more brains to push technology forward, progress might stall. Well you really only …
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I thought his posts on how many batteries we'd need to convert to electric everything while maintaining living standards were very interesting.
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SwiftUI is good enough to make apps with. All tools/libraries have problems. You'll advance much faster by learning to work with their limitations than you will be trying to find the perfect…
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They mean total comp, which is probably true since lots of people include their stock price appreciation when they talk about their total comp.
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The problem with batteries is they don't lose weight as they discharge[1]. With fuel powered aircraft the fuel is used up over the course of a flight, so that the average weight of the aircraft i…
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> What's the argument that active managers aren't just rent seeking parasites lying about their roles? That someone has to set prices and structurally index funds can't do that job. …
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The rise in energy prices was obviously going to happen in 2020 (when it was clear lockdowns were leading to reduced oil production). Couple that with recent policy in the US and Europe disincentivizi…
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VC returns to software were high because software has high fixed costs, low marginal costs. So the tradeoff was fund a team long enough to get profitable and grow fast and then you get a big return. T…
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Average firm size has increased as well (both in terms of employees and market cap) so that explains some of it.
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Since you work at a hedge fund and are getting all cash compensation just put part of your paycheck into some ETFs every month. Someone else recommended the bogleheads forum which is good advice. If y…
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> Need to buy a house? bid 20% more than asking, if you don't - someone else will.. in cash. If you expect inflation to stay high for a while this is actually rational... as long as you still …
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I doubt crypto is the driver. Seems more likely that institutional investors are pulling out of cryptos as inflation spikes. So crypto crash is an effect, not a cause.
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The majority of people I know who are into crypto buy the hype and believe their own bullshit. The cynical opportunists seem to be a minority.
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I don't know about these eVTOLs, but the V22 can't autorotate (well technically it can but it probably won't survive the landing).