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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 limiting factor is the max size ports can accommodate. And the size of the canals (Suez, Panama) they have to pass through in some cases. Edit: here's a good graphic showing max sizes fo…
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It would probably also be useful for HIV since white blood cells are produced in the bone marrow.
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Their risk adjusted returns could be a lot better though.
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It comes with a bluetooth stack IIRC.
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Yes, it's not really the testosterone that causes hair loss, it's the DHT the testosterone is converted too and there are drugs and topical foams that can prevent that conversion from happen…
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Yes, I understand the motivation for SICP. There are similar trends in mathematics where some people like an abstracted, axiomatized presentation and others like something more intuitive. I'm in …
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I read SICP and never got the hype. Seems like there is a certain personality type who really takes to SICP but not everyone learns best that way. I found it much more intuitive to learn about computi…
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I'm doubtful it will ever work (but I'm glad someone like Bret is working on it). If I think about the technical things I've learned the hard part is usually learning how to think about…
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If you assume markets are roughly efficient then eliminating all R&D would cause stock prices to tank (assuming R&D is important to the long-term success of the business). I think many people …
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Their strategy seems to be working. They have a massively profitable business and are the 4th largest company in the world.
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I think they just have a different orientation to the world than you do. I'm not religious for what it's worth, but for many of the religious people I know I don't think stripping them …
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Aristotle also recognized that there are a wide variety of people and what works for one group might not work for another. The Sivers piece reminds me of a phenomenon I see all the time: people assumi…
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There is an old manual on USAF dog fighting tactics written by Frederick Blesse after the Korean War. It's pretty interesting: https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/delimitedoptions&…
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It is less general though, so this is interesting because it shows you can learn a lot without adding very much structure.
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Because the benefits of switching seem relatively limited for the cost.
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> If we invested USD$10-15 billion a year (as compared with ~USD$50 billion on "drug enforcement") into the resources required to provide treatment for anyone who wants/needs it, and…
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It's not in your list but decision trees still outperform DNN on many tabular problems and can be trained faster.
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I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. I find it hard to believe that someone without a decently strong math background could make sense of a modern paper on deep learning. I have a math…
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For it be worth doing for a hedge fund they'd need to be able to put on a sizable trade. Let's say $1mm but probably a lot more. Is there enough liquidity to do this? I have no idea.
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> well maybe, but do you have any experience with this other than feeling? Same has been said of dope smokers, but many are productive. Also in china a few centuries ago there was no welfare state …
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This article claims 27% of the adult male population were addicts in 1906 (5% of total population): https://sci-hub.se/10.1007/s10571-007-9225-2 . They don't specifically men…
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There have been countries like China in the Opium Wars period that had limited restrictions on drug consumption. It ended up with a substantial fraction of their population being addicted to opium and…
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Yes, I know that, but where we disagree is that I think the social process of involving the artist is important and can't be replaced by having an app just show a bunch of options.
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You pay an artist to make decisions for you that you have no expertise to make yourself. Stable Diffusion and similar things don't help with that because ultimately what it requires is taste. The…
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A lot of the high paying industries with non-competes are small and insular. If you violate your non-compete and are found out you will go to arbitration, probably get fired from your new job and have…
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Because the claim of the comment I was responding to was that Yoav doesn't experience bias and consequently dismisses it, so in this case my comment is a direct refutation of the argument.
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No of course not, nor did I claim they are.
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I mean he is presumably Jewish and lives in Israel, so I would guess he knows quite a bit about being a minority and experiencing bias.