robertothais

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Taking into account average market returns[1] in a 60/40 stock/bond portfolio, one would only need a bit more than 7 years to reach $2 million saving $200k/yr.

In practice though, the expected return on such a short timeframe would be quite uncertain given stock market volatility.

[1] https://personal.vanguard.com/us/insights/saving-investing/m...

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  Location: New York & Berlin
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  Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Go, ES6, React, Redux, Node, Octave/Matlab, Docker
  Github: https://github.com/robertothais
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  Email: roberto [at] astor.place

I'm a web application engineer with 8 years of experience building software for startups. Previously head of engineering at a YC and venture-backed company and CTO of another, which got acquired.

Undergraduate at Yale (Philosophy) and graduate work at NYU (Math). Currently interested and learning crypto.

Looking for part-time, consulting work. Preferably remote, but can meet in New York/Berlin depending on availability.

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If consciousness is a physical thing, how can you be so convinced that it is impossible to talk about it in physical terms? Couldn't the difficulty be due to a deficiency in our current explanatory power, as opposed to something more fundamental? What evidence do you have to support that biological talk (about consciousness, or otherwise) is necessarily irreducible to physical talk?

These questions are very interesting and very hard, and dismissing honest attempts to grapple with them rigorously, wrong as they may turn out to be, seems rash to me.

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Could you recommend a good introductory book on his ideas?

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I like to think of networking as being loosely analogous to an optimization process like gradient descent [1]. You start with an initial "guess" of what your optimal network could potentially be. In practice, this will be the people you already know through school, work or through friendships. From there, you follow an iterative process that improves that guess through successive iterations, consistently applying strategies like those described in the article.

It's hard to say when this process would "converge", but looking for an answer to that may be straining the analogy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient_descent

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The "make sure people hear about it" part is non-trivial, and assumes that you already have a minimal audience that cares about your work.

In other words, you're already networking when you're trying to get people to pay attention to you. The article provides a set of practical lessons intended to help you with that.

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T-Mobile in the US has a set of plans that offer unlimited international data roaming in more than 140 countries [1]. The catch? The bandwidth is capped to 128kbps.

[1] https://www.t-mobile.com/optional-services/roaming.html

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Submissions

An Afternoon at the Recursive Café: Two Threads Interleaving

Two-dimensional context free grammars [pdf]

Ruby internals: “This is some roflscale crazy stuff”

Who Is Publishing NSA and CIA Secrets, and Why?

With H-1B under threat, Alphabet ramps up immigration lobbying

The Operation and Demise of the Bretton Woods System

Learn to Fly by Crashing

Consciousness as a State of Matter (2014)

HoTTSQL: Proving Query Rewrites with Univalent SQL Semantics (2016)

Intuitive Understanding of Euler's formula

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