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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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Some people like programming in C.
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It doesn't sound like he's not doing anything useful. In fact, it sounds like he has a strong idea of how business works. Lots of people can do the job (unless you're doing something su…
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I agree that that is the best way to learn Emacs (and vi/vim). For me, the hard part wasn't so much learning to navigate Emacs as it was customizing it to my liking. The basics of Emacs are …
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I agree, this way seems the best. The reason people like WordPress so much is because it abstracts away everything except writing content. Users don't care how the site is served (and most nontec…
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Thanks for posting this. It's interesting info. Sorry you're getting downvoted. I'm not really sure why that is.
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That's why I posted it :) The whole site is great (I think some of his stuff has shown up here before). The people posting about the lack of sophistication or the childishness of the troll itself…
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This was my interpretation as well.
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Probably means an onsite and an offsite backup for example.
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I know that some academics are critical of evolutionary approaches. Steven Skiena, for one, in his algorithms textbook, said something to the effect of never having encountered a problem in which an e…
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The European Central Bank cut one of their rates to below zero in June 2014, iirc. Part of the reason you see this in Europe and not in the US (at least at the moment) is because of restrictions on wh…
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This kind of thing makes me sad. We know that one of the things people need to feel satisfied is a degree of autonomy. And by taking that away and treating them as a commoditized component in some mac…
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Since the article talks about hobby development, I want to plug Handmade Hero [1], which is a really cool series of youtube videos (still in progress) of a full, production quality game being built fr…
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This was my experience as well. I'm curious what percentage of people reorder. Nonetheless, I'm happy to see soylent doing well over some of the other startups I've seen addressing real…
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I think there is a valid argument against GMOs, but it revolves more around the dangers of creating a monoculture (i.e. one bad crop disease could then wipe out a large fraction of the food supply), r…
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The tacit assumption here is that we can predict what aspects of AI will be most beneficial. But if you look at the inventions/discoveries that have most affected the world over the past few deca…
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As always, when someone has something to gain from giving you advice, be skeptical, even if it seems well intentioned. It is fairly disingenuous of VCs and other investors to advocate for talented you…
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> the probability of a 25-year-old dying before their 26th birthday is 0.1% It's probably significantly lower than that as well if you take out all the accidental deaths that occur in people&#…
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The problem with retrospectively explaining success is that you fall prey to both survivorship bias and narrative bias. In physics this is known as anthropic bias. All post-hoc justifications for the …
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I don't think this is a valid criticism. Most of the VC funded startups I'm aware of are founded by graduates of top US schools (Ivy or similar), where almost no one graduates with debt. An …
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I think that is a reasonable assumption given the data over the past century. I wouldn't view such a statement as a value judgement, but instead as a (possible) interpretation of the facts... The…
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I can't imagine it would be that hard to make the battery removable? (I don't know for sure, just pure speculation). At any rate, I'd expect at least some phone manufacturer to create a…
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> in any case venture capitalist firms don't ten to put 50M on the table for snake oil. You have a much higher view of VCs then I do then. I'm personally aware of a few tech companies tha…
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I had a very similar experience as you wrt AI and algorithms courses. Oddly enough, when I then (later) started exploring these more on my own I found them much more interesting.
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I've only read a few chapters from this, but I've heard it recommended highly by others as well.
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Hilbert wanted to establish mathematics on a firm foundation because a number of paradoxes suggested that the current foundations was faulty (Russell's paradox being one, there are others that I …
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The Amish do use modern medicine. At least some of them. It depends on the community.