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JangoSteve

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About JangoSteve

CTO and cofounder of Genomenon (genome interpretation software for diagnosing, treating, and researching cancer and other inheritable diseases).

Former CTO and cofounder of CarcodeSMS (text messaging platform for car dealerships), which was acquired by Edmunds.com in 2014.

Managing Director of Alfa Jango (www.alfajango.com) where we act as CTO and development team for early stage startups, founded RateMyStudentRental.com (on- and off-campus student housing), and created LeadNuke.com (B2B sales lead generation by monitoring online conversations) and JSPkg (front-end JavaScript library host).

I'm on Twitter: @jangosteve (https://twitter.com/jangosteve), and Github: JangoSteve (https://github.com/JangoSteve)

I write of life, philosophy, and the pursuit of success (both its achievement and meaning) on my personal blog: http://jangosteve.com

Popular posts include:

No One Knows What the F#*% They're Doing - http://jangosteve.com/post/380926251/no-one-knows-what-theyre-doing

The Science Behind "Having a Bad Day" - http://lifehacker.com/5595104/the-science-behind-having-a-bad-day-and-how-to-solve-it

I also write on more tangible subjects like programming (mostly Ruby and JavaScript), engineering, and entrepreneurship: http://www.alfajango.com/blog

Popular posts include:

The Difference Between jQuery’s .bind(), .live(), and .delegate() - http://www.alfajango.com/blog/the-difference-between-jquerys-bind-live-and-delegate/

Rails 3 Remote Links & Forms: A Definitive Guide - http://www.alfajango.com/blog/rails-3-remote-links-and-forms/

method_missing: A Rubyist's Beautiful Mistress - http://www.alfajango.com/blog/method_missing-a-rubyists-beautiful-mistress/

If You're Nervous About Quitting Your Job, You're Sane - http://www.alfajango.com/blog/if-youre-nervous-about-quitting-your-boring-job-youre-sane/

If you'd like, you may contact me at schwartz dot steve on gmail.

Top color: #77b45f (to match Alfa Jango's colors, which were chosen from the Green Lantern's palette).

Recent public activity

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    As a software developer who spent nearly 10 years founding and building a genomic startup, this is a good start, but does have a lot of vast oversimplifications and a few inaccurac…

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    Anecdotally, I've noticed an uptick in my eBay feeds recently of items being immediately relisted after having supposedly sold. This has always happened occasionally, but within th…

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    This was a common approach called a "honeypot". As I recall, bots eventually overcame this approach by evaluating visibility of elements and only filling out visible elements. We t…

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    Interestingly, the award was specifically for the impact of AlphaFold2 that won CASP 14 in 2020 using their EvoFormer architecture evolved from the Transformer, and not for AlphaFo…

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    I've gotten so much push-back over the years when I've asserted that startups are too quick to describe their products as AI in industries where the target customer considers it un…

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    It's a little worse than that. If you need to upgrade at least once per billing cycle, the system keeps charging you more and more (since an upgrade will always have a higher total…

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    > What is reasoning if not the ability to assess "if this" and conclude "then that"? A lot of things. There are entire fields of study which seek to define reasoning, breaking it d…

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    > And it turns out that a lot of human reasoning is statistically predictable enough in writing that you can actually obtain reasoning-like behavior just by having a good auto-comp…

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    Do you mean for AI to do the entire job of researching, creating, testing, manufacturing, and distributing a cure, or just for AI to be involved? And do you mean completely eradica…

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    First, I agree it's important to put Tesla recalls in context with the greater automotive industry, so I think what you posted is great info. The only thing I'd disagree with is th…

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    I did something similar to this a while back with a one-liner aliased in my Bash includes, called gitsum (short for git summary). alias gitsum='git log --pretty=format:"* %s" --aut…

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    I think my favorite part of this prompt is that it starts with, "Please..." With this new class of products based on crafting prompts that best exploit a GPT's algorithm and traini…

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    A lot of good feedback here. One additional thought I'd provide is that I wouldn't rule someone out based on a "Contact us for price" button. I'd click the button, let them know wh…

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    Genomenon | Full-time | Remote (USA) | Senior Back-end and Full-stack Developers Genomenon is an AI-driven genomics company. Our mission is to save and improve lives by making geno…

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    Genomenon | Full-time | Remote (USA) | Senior Back-end and Full-stack Developers Genomenon is an AI-driven genomics company. Our mission is to save and improve lives by making geno…

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    Genomenon | Full-time | Remote (USA) | Senior Back-end and Full-stack Developers Genomenon is an AI-driven genomics company. Our mission is to save and improve lives by making geno…

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    Genomenon | Full-time | Remote (USA) | Senior Back-end and Full-stack Developers Genomenon is an AI-driven genomics company. Our mission is to save and improve lives by making geno…

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    I have what I call my 80/80 rule of early-stage startups, which is that for 80% of new startups, 80% of what they need is CRUD operations (create, read, update, delete). So basical…

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    Are you sure? The entirety of the comic book genre is almost 100% based in social issues. Even going back to the first superhero, Superman, in the first issue of Action Comics #1, …

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    Genomenon | Full-time | Remote (USA) | Senior Back-end and Full-stack Developers Genomenon is an AI-driven genomics company. Our mission is to save and improve lives by making geno…

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    This seems to be a prime example of the Pareto Principle, or the 80/20 rule. About 12 years ago, I had built something to do something similar and published how I did it [1]. It wa…

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    Genomenon | FUll-time | Remote (USA) | Senior Back-end and Full-stack Developers Genomenon is an AI-driven genomics company. Our mission is to save and improve lives by making geno…

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    Comment #30107141

    Saying the effects of masking on younger age groups and with cloth masks in this study were statistically insignificant is also a misrepresentation of what the study found. The act…

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    There's another problem with the article's argument. It contends that the many studies on mask effectiveness have various shortcomings such as not being specific to kids, or having…