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jeffreyrogers
11,351karma·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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I'm not fully sure why you've been downvoted, but I think your comment on SSRIs is a bit misguided. I don't know enough about the others you've mentioned (statins, Xanax, Adderall,…
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What stops these drugs from being developed in European countries with more relaxed rules and then brought to the US market afterwards?
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It is great to see so many projects moving to git and GitHub in particular. GitHub is incredibly helpful for quickly taking a look at a project and figuring out what areas of a project are still evolv…
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Mike Pall, the writer of the LuaJIT interpreter/compiler, suggests that a good interpreter can get a large portion of the gains you'd get from a compiler. At one point the LuaJIT interpreter…
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I don't know the legal issues involved with Kickstarting a drug, but I do know of at least one medical technique (Vasalgel) that has been/is being crowdfunded, so it is possible.
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Sometimes doing one thing well is good enough. Like Gillette or Coca-Cola.
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> Search, on the other hand, still has massive room for improvement. This is true, but it's also a really hard problem and most likely any improvements will require enormous scale to implement…
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Ken Thompson had already invented UNIX and C when Google hired him.
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> computer scientists seem to have transformed in public imagination from quiet nerds to celebrity saviors of mankind. The people I'm around seem to still view programmers/computer scient…
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You are almost guaranteed to beat the market using a very simple strategy: just buy the lowest decile ranked by price-to-earnings.
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The point is more that she exhausted her other opportunities and The Container Store was a last resort.
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Not sure why the title has (2011) in it. This was posted today, November 11, 2014
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I wonder whether anything of this sort has been done in the past or is a current research topic. If so, it would be interesting to know the current level of progress.
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> I see several comments questioning the legitimate value of a peer-to-peer marketplace. The problem with P2P is that it requires a much more complicated architecture than if you simply use a more …
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> but now, the only thing necessary to get someone to kill someone else is a stern command. If you don't believe me, look up the Milgram experiments I think you're being a bit hyperbolic …
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What are your returns and what have been the returns of the market over the same period?
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Any good compiler will optimize that out. (Actually, even a bad compiler will optimize that out... it's a really easy optimization).
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Is there any reason someone couldn't do the same thing for Sass?
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HFT does have some benefits that doing this eliminates: 1) It provides markets for securities that would otherwise by relatively illiquid. 2) It compresses the bid/ask spread so that the price be…
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It's true that he's often abrasive, but he usually has his facts straight.
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Quoting from that link > This wasn’t meant to be a malicious hack, but rather a simple social experiment to see how much traction/investor interest I could get. What matters isn't what it…
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Yeah, it depends on what you're trying to accomplish with the language. The most interesting new languages I've seen lately have focused a lot on performance (Rust, Julia, Nimrod, etc.) but …
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This is a great article. I wonder how implementing a VM in RPython compares performance-wise to using the LLVM toolchain. I know that Julia (which is a very fast, dynamic language), for example, uses …
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> I can't understand what undefined behaviors C has, because it is the most simple and defined language I do know of. C has lots of undefined behaviors because the language was designed to be …
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This book is super helpful and I referred to it in the past while I was learning Git. I want to note though that Git is pretty complex and trying to learn it all at once is going to be extremely frust…
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This is a really interesting post. The same author recently posted another article that discusses some of the ideas from the conclusion of this post. You can find that article here: http://…