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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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That's true, but the reason people care about it is because in the past more transistors led to higher clock speeds, which is what I was getting at by saying we can still put more transistors o…
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The idea that Moore's law is still continuing is a bit misleading. For all practical purposes it's over. See the graph here: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/116561-…
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From the press release: "Max Schireson, the company’s current CEO, will become Vice Chairman and remain with the company full time after transitioning the CEO role." He's not leaving, j…
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For comparison, Nvidia's highest level gaming GPU, the Titan Z[1] has 5760 cores... but it costs about $3000 [1]: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/announcing-th…
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I tried using a static blog for a while, but I found I was spending so much time fighting with the generators out there that it made far more sense to just use WordPress. Plus (I and probably nearly e…
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That's a good point, and one I hadn't thought of. I wonder what it would take to wrap Unix.fork into a threading library to make threads more convenient?
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I'm surprised that better threading wasn't mentioned. As I understand it, OCaml has threads but parallelism isn't possible. That is, although you can have multiple threads, only one can…
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I can definitely agree with your point about no such thing as easier money than IT money. Prior to working in programming (still in college, but I've done a few internships) I worked restaurant j…
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That's a good point, and I've definitely used more functional language techniques in my regular programming since learning Haskell/OCaml.
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It looks like I'm one of the few people on here not excited about Haskell. Functional programming is great. Static typing is nice, yes. Hindley-Milner type-inference even moreso, but I often find…
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I'm in the United States and want to comment to say your experience doesn't have to be this way. In the past I've had severe depression and anxiety attacks and tried both medication and…
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I'm not super familiar with Haskell, but I'm fairly proficient in one of its siblings--OCaml. I've found that compilers/interpreters are almost the ideal use case for those types o…
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Wow, that looks really interesting. I've only taken a brief look, but I'll be sure to take a more in depth look at it this afternoon/evening when I get a chance. I've been very sur…
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I posted this, but I didn't create it. I came across it while learning OpenGL and thought it was an interesting way to learn more about how pixel (fragment) shaders worked. That said, I definitel…
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I was looking at Slackware Linux the other day and came across this page http://www.slackware.com/install/softwaresets.php . I enjoyed how emacs got its own software set due to it…
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At the time in my life when I stopped reading LessWrong I became remarkably happier within a week. I attribute this to two reasons: 1. LessWrong's focus on optimizing your life is so great that w…
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You can also use it from the terminal with the `say` command, e.g. `say -f myfile.txt`
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It works outside of git repositories and is faster than grep or awk.
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I'm saying that claiming different sexes interact with the world differently and have different strengths and weaknesses does not make you a sexist. I also claim that there is strong evidence to …
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Thanks for posting links to research. I agree that the poster you refer to could have been more clear in his/her thought, but my general point was that merely discussing sex differences shouldn&#…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_human_psych... This is not a controversial area of psychology. The burden of proof is on anyone making claims to the contrary (li…
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It's neither sexist nor pseudoscientific, but rather well supported by evidence. Just because you wish a fact weren't so doesn't make it any less true.
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I don't really see an argument in favor of longer extensions except in rare cases (such as with html where you only need one extra letter). `mp4` tells me just as much about a file as `mpeg4` doe…