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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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The people giving VCs money aren't dumb and VC has been a pretty good asset class over the past two decades, which is when it really exploded in size. It's a self-correcting problem, when VC…
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Marketing can increase the size of the market. Making deals with other businesses can too (they pay a fixed monthly fee and get unlimited washes for all their cars, etc.). I used to wash my car myself…
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Starting a business is really challenging, as anyone who has tried it knows. Trying to make the finances work in something ephemeral is likely even more challenging. In any case, most businesses fail …
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Modern engineering still works that way for lots of thing.
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Seems like a natural progression of a person's interests. When I started reading HN in ~2009 almost everything on the front page was new to me and I spent a ton of time reading articles and comme…
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If you put a known prompt in an LLM and ask it to read it back to you, how often does it do it correctly? I would bet not all the time, particularly if you give it a long prompt like the one that is p…
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Why would asking an LLM to leak its prompt actually cause it to leak its real prompt? You could ask it to leak its weights too and it would probably give you something back but no one would take that …
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I think the difference is that Maps is a product and its hard to copy a whole product and make it good without someone driving the vision. But a model is just a model, in terms of lines of code they a…
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Rosalind Franklin wrote an obituary for the helix theory.[1] She thought her image debunked the helix theory, even though when you know the double helix structure of DNA you can very clearly see it in…
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The book Becoming Steve Jobs is pretty good and it is a fair portrayal of him (or it seems that way to me). He is obviously amazingly talented, he also had a difficult personality. But he convinced lo…
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For seriously high performance systems like webservers or exchanges, you need to get the architecture right from the start. You can't rearchitect a part or two or solve design problems by making …
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The problem is that if you don't know what is required to write fast code you won't design your program to be performant from the start. Lots of applications can be sped up dramatically by r…
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> “There's this phenomenon called homohysteria, which is the fear of being perceived as gay that I think really, really is destructive for men's friendships,” she says. I see this claimed…
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Eh, it's part of it, but not the whole story. Utah is a pretty close place and it has a lot of sprawl (traffic isn't too bad though). So many things have changed in the last half-century or …
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Yeah, you're getting downvoted but this is true in rural/semi-rural areas.
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Yeah, I've found it fairly easy to talk to people at bars and I'm not even a particularly social person. The type of bar matters a lot though. Some are too loud and crowded to meet people at…
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> it's frankly impossible to pick investment winners There's an entire industry of highly compensated people built around the idea that you can pick investment winners. > so a more sen…
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So much for crypto being an inflation hedge.
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There's a lot of progress on this recently with things like conformal prediction.
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Is there not some way to undue that? I'm sure it would be a hassle, but hacking someone's account and transferring their domain name is a crime, it also leaves a very obvious paper trail. Se…
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If you enjoyed that series you might also enjoy the Otto Prohaska series by John Biggins. It's about a submarine captain in WWI, so doesn't touch on sailing too much (well the 4th book does)…
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It's also been one of the wealthiest parts of the world since Roman times.
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I think the cause of the first AI winter had more to do with some of the early researchers suggesting they'd have solutions to problems within a few months to years that are just now becoming tra…
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Recently there was a post on HN about some child whose genetic disease was cured by inserting DNA (can't remember the specifics). I wonder if something similar could be done with HIV. Obviously y…