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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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What about Rust? It seems like it has incorporated most of the good features of OCaml.
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The reliability of UDP is mainly going to depend on the end nodes you're trying to connect. The backbone of the internet is very reliable and if you're connecting over ethernet or through so…
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I think you could make the argument that fusion is more or less feasible if someone would just get around to building it too...
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I'm glad they're charging money at least. It's nice to see a startup focus on revenues for a change.
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I read the article and watched the videos at the end. Is this just one elaborate troll?
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Out of curiosity, how come? Python runs on pretty much any platform you'd want to use and is much easier to develop in than C/C++.
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I read the post, thanks, it was very interesting. It didn't address at all the concerns about a malicious user inspecting the IP sender field, however, but I suppose one could argue that because …
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I wasn't aware of the previous discussion, however, it's not surprising to me that this has shown up before. Part of the reason I posted this is because a somewhat related article from the N…
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Yeah, this is definitely true. You can see the trend even in networking, where the routing protocols have typically been very decentralized in nature. Now with the advent of OpenFlow and data center n…
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> And just last week, a couple at Disney World had the first block chain marriage, recorded forever within the block chain! So how does a blockchain divorce work? :)
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The decentralized storage applications are interesting to me since I've been working on something similar for a networking project. The problem I see is data accessibility. What do you do when yo…
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Your first point here is critical. I've been lucky enough to get to know several extremely successful people (outside of tech), and while all of them are bright, they're probably about avera…
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If you constrain a problem enough it eventually becomes impossible. There is no royal road to learning hard things, you just have to put in the time.
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Are most people doing data analysis actually going to be implementing their own numerical algorithms though? I'd imagine most people just use whatever library is available in R, Python, or whatev…
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This is great. I needed to draw some ASCII art as part of a network design project I was doing and having something like this would have saved me a ton of time.
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The article mentioned the possibility of a peer to peer based internet of things and then suggested it use some sort of block-chain like algorithm as its distributed consensus algorithm. That seems a …
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Yeah, so it becomes a space/time tradeoff. I think whether which is better depends on the problem you're solving. Many DFAs don't blow up space exponentially, so you'd rather have …
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I don't think this is true. All non-deterministic finite automata (NDFA) can be converted to deterministic finite automata (DFA), and regular expressions are equivalent in power to DFAs Edit: Act…
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Since Thiel talks a lot about "monopoly theory" it's probably worth reading some of the people who've been talking about this for longer than Thiel's been in business (i.e. be…
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Worth noting that $1mm in the 40s and 50s is much more in 2014 dollars.
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This reminds me a lot of Nassim Taleb's thinking in the book Antifragile .
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Also worth noting is that Ebay has just recently announced a split (splitting Ebay and PayPal), and many are suggesting that Cisco split into two businesses as well.
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If you get out of the VC/Silicon Valley/Tech universe these companies are appreciated much more. In the wider business world, they still get a lot of attention, largely because they are good…
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That's the relevant law though, right?
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Ah interesting. Did you find any notable results? My understanding is that IQ (as a proxy for intelligence) matters up to a certain cutoff and beyond that its importance drops off (i.e. you might want…
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The problem is that the reason for getting a degree isn't to become "educated" it's to be come employable. And until employers start to look at an online degree or an apprenticeshi…
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Where are you getting that IQ data from? I go to one of the Ivies and have never had an IQ test nor have most of my peers I would imagine. (That said I agree with your premise, my peers at school aren…
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Caltech or MIT, sure. I'm not as sure about Stanford though. Everyone I know at Stanford got in largely for legacy or athletics. While I have no doubt they'll be successful (based on their p…