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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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Here is the unix kernel (in Nim) that he mentions: https://github.com/ckkashyap/nim-xv6 . It is based off of the xv6 OS: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2014&…
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> It does make me wonder if we'll ever see a Nim to rust transpiler. I'm not really sure what you'd get from that? They seem to share most of the same features, with rust focusing a …
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> What "massive amount of wealth extraction"? Are you just making shit up? I think he was probably just confused about how HFT works, since unless you're familiar with it it is very …
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The problem is that no matter how clever you make your algorithms in the end dating is about people. And if the person isn't interesting then nothing else matters. There are other things worth op…
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I accidentally left the final character out of the url, so if a mod could change that I'd appreciate it.
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I'm curious why you think inflation is harmful? Most (all?) economist think that slight inflation is beneficial.
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Only the first 3 sections have been written, so the other stuff is coming later.
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I've seen a few references to probabilistic programming, but I'm not familiar with it. Can someone who is briefly describe what its advantages are and where it's likely to provide a bet…
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Agreed. I tried to post that earlier today (after reading the regehr post), but HN wouldn't let me (which was odd since the last submission was in 2010 I believe).
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Well, it's illegal, and presumably it's harder to cover up a machine doing it (since it's in the source code) than a human who could just deny doing anything wrong.
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I'll second this. I took a course using this textbook and it was one of my favorites.
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I'm not sure this is a bad thing. The criticism of C and its counterparts is valid in some respects, but I think the dogmatic views of FP proponents overstep the bounds of what is justified in ma…
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This was my experience as well, though fortunately I found out math was actually interesting my junior rather than senior year.
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I agree with you, that book is great for giving an overview of the general areas of mathematics and for providing context before going deeper into an area. I've used it to get some background in …
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I think academics would get pretty annoyed :) Most of my professors just use the exercises from the textbook for homework, usually on the assumption that you can't find the answers online.
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I've seen that book a number of times before and always thought about reading it. Do you recommend it?
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> 1) Math is fun! This has been my biggest realization as I started learning more math. What before seemed very arbitrary and unrelated becomes much more interesting and exciting once you have a bi…
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I agree strongly that math is poorly taught most places and that Concrete Mathematics does an admirable job of teaching math in a way that gets to the beauty of it. Oddly enough, it wasn't until …
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I linked to this rather than the NYT's piece for two reasons: 1. The NYT piece has already been on HN and so most people have seen it. 2. This post has a different opinion and one I don't th…
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> I will add one point that is often glossed over: use it or lose it. Once you stop using a skill at a high level, it starts to slowly deteriorate. I found this point interesting (and the whole art…
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Yes, but no physicist will tell you its safe to leave uranium lying around. Virtually everyone working in AI, including the biggest names in the field, will tell you that the methods are very domain s…
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> It is the period between sentience and "advanced" artificial intelligence that should be worrying for two reasons: First, it is close at hand. More importantly, the unintended consequen…
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What I meant, and what I think Michael O. Church meant, was more that VC money doesn't come strictly from the VCs themselves. In most (nearly all?) cases, there are a number of LPs whose money th…
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I think one of the most interesting paragraphs in this essay is the one discussing where VC money comes from. This seems to be something that is not very clear on HN, and without understanding who…
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I'm not an OpenBSD user (I was briefly, but now use Linux or OS X because of software availability, though I may go back at some point), however, one thing I really like about OpenBSD is the phil…
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Heuristic: The people who talk most about motivation have it the least. I'm quite accomplished by an reasonable standard in at least a few fields (academics, athletics, hopefully programming skil…