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jeffreyrogers
11,350karma·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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These sort of commentaries on AI are the modern equivalent of medieval theologians debating how many angels could congregate in one place.
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A lot of that is to get around laws that say corporations can't practice medicine. These are state-laws, not federal so in every state it's different.
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I believe the monkey gland is called that because around the time it was invented there was a surgeon (Serge Voronoff) who was promoting a surgery in which he would implant baboon testicles into men (…
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I think most of the ostensible age discrimination is explained by the tech industry's massive growth over the past 50 years (means more young people are hired than old people because they have th…
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Algorithmic betting is widespread in horse racing now. I can't remember the exact figures but I think it's estimated to be about 40% of the total handle. There is a company that will allow i…
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How did you choose the artworks for the artworks section of your site?
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He had a sharpe ratio similar to early Rentech and used much less leverage. Probably would have had similar returns to them if if he used similar amounts of leverage. From interviews with him he seems…
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Benter allegedly did use something like this in his later models so it probably does matter.
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Tyler Cowen claims it's already here. I don't agree with him but he has credibility with a lot of people.
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It's a little hard to say for sure because companies can stay private longer and in some cases don't need to go public at all, but it seems that the last wave of huge successes were founded …
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I know what TOS are. An employment contract is also literally the terms under which your employer must perform its obligations to you as an employee. Both are bilateral contracts between a corporation…
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That's literally what an employment contract is.
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I found my experience with AI Chat vs web search much different than OPs. For me AI chat almost always gives better results than web search. Most of the time I use it it's when I know that what I…
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Looks like the lectures from a prior version are on youtube too: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP62EaLLH92E_... …
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When a new technology comes along no one knows what ideas are good and what ideas are bad, so people try a bunch of things and most of them aren't very useful and the few that are become standard…
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Most programmers are already doing a form of vibe coding when they, for example, let an ORM write their database queries for them. I think a decent number of Rails and Django devs probably would strug…
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I'm not sure if this is the case for the screenplay, but for the actual play the playwright (who also wrote the screenplay) rewrote the ending at least 6 times over 20 years and multiple producti…
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The author owns the copyright unless they transfer it. His transference of those rights shows that he was motivated by profit.
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Well he chose not to make those wishes known in his will apparently, or in any of the contracts which assigned his IP to others.
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If he sold his rights then it's not really against his wishes anymore.
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This is very common among people who sell their companies. AJ Wasserstein[0] at Yale's school of management has written a few things about it. He built up and sold a (non-tech) business for a sub…
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My understanding is that what counts as fair use is not well defined because litigation is expensive and publishers don't want to take a gamble, go to court, and potentially lose or have large le…
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We know how already: exogenous testosterone (or other, more anabolic hormones), but that has downsides like left-ventricular hypertrophy, masculinization in women, and (usually reversible) infertility…
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Mickey Mouse is in the public domain now (the original one at least), but I agree with your argument.
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That's how it was originally but over time the terms have been extended (largely due to advocacy from organizations that own large catalogs of copyrighted material). It's now tied to the lif…
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I think this is the correct thing to do as far as copyright law goes, but it seems to me that copyright terms are far too long to fulfill their original purpose: incentivize the distribution of creati…
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About 10 years ago I implemented cookie based sessions for a project I was working on. I had a terrible time debugging why auth was working in Safari but not Chrome (or vice-versa, can't remember…