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smockman36 commented on Ask HN: Remotely helping elderly parents? · Posted by u/a4f00

octagons · 4 years ago

I’m genuinely interested in advocating for the elderly in tech. Do you have any insights on the challenges Honor faces or has overcome? Especially in regards to respecting the real-world/digital privacy (let alone HIPAA!) while engineering a solution with technology.

smockman36 · 4 years ago

Honor faces the same issues as everyone in the home care industry: senior home health care is taxing work and there is very high turnover. It's also a very intimate and emotional industry. Some of our technology challenges are around Care Professional satisfaction and improving back-of-house operations.

smockman36 commented on Ask HN: Remotely helping elderly parents? · Posted by u/a4f00

smockman36 · 4 years ago

If helping aging adults is something you are passionate about, we are helping older people age in place with grace and dignity. I'm an engineer here and am happy to answer any questions and/or give a referral if you are interested in applying!

https://www.joinhonor.com/meet/engineering

smockman36 commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016) · Posted by u/whoishiring

jonrkarr · 9 years ago

Karr Lab (http://www.karrlab.org) @ Mount Sinai Medical School | New York, NY 10029 | Full-Time | ONSITE

The Karr Lab at the Institute for Genomics & Multiscale Biology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is seeking talented, ambitious engineers to develop technology for building, simulating, and applying cutting-edge whole-cell computational models of individual cells.

We are developing whole-cell computational models which comprehensively predict how behavior emerges from the molecular level by representing all of the biochemical activity inside cells. Our goal is to use whole-cell models to transform bioengineering and medicine into rigorous, quantitative disciplines. Our work is highly interdisciplinary, involving systems biology, genomics, bioinformatics, data integration, parallel simulation, optimization, software engineering, and data visualization, and highly team-oriented.

We are looking for software engineers to develop several technologies, including a domain-specific language for describing whole-cell models, a parallel multi-algorithmic simulator, scalable tools for visualizing and analyzing high-dimensional simulation results, and tools for handling personal `omics data.

More information: http://www.karrlab.org/join or Jonathan Karr (karr@mssm.edu)

How to apply: Send a cover letter and a CV to Jonathan Karr (karr@mssm.edu)

smockman36 · 9 years ago

I saw Dr. Karr present the Whole-Cell Computational Models a few months ago and I believe it's truly transformative work. Once you wrap your head around what they do, you'll understand the limitless potential this software could have. If you're interested, I think these two articles can give you a good idea of what Whole-Cell Modeling is: http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(12)00776-3 https://covert.stanford.edu/publicationpdfs/DMacklin2014.pdf.

I applied to work with them at the time but they were low on funding. I would apply today if I weren't already happily employed. Good luck Karr Lab!

smockman36 commented on Wells Fargo's Bid to Vanquish Screen Scraping americanbanker.com/news/b... · Posted by u/octavien7

smockman36 · 10 years ago

Do most banks not have an API? If you use software (e.g. something from Intuit) that accesses your banking info, is it likely screen-scraping?

smockman36 commented on Ask HN: How do you find potential coworkers for a startup? · Posted by u/piercena

smockman36 · 10 years ago

I suggest you take it as far as you can by yourself, and then seek partners online. To take it off the ground, do you need someone to build a prototype? If that's the case, write out some deliverables and shop it around to developers.

smockman36 commented on Ask HN: Should I incorporate as a freelancer? · Posted by u/smockman36

tjr · 10 years ago

In my opinion, an LLC is reasonable for this sort of thing. I'd see a regular corporation as overkill, and a sole proprietorship not offering enough benefit to be worth doing.

smockman36 · 10 years ago

cool, thank you. is this common practice for freelancers?

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yla92 · 10 years ago

A bit off topic : what are the best recommended way/resources to learn linear algebra and basic probability and statistics ?

smockman36 · 10 years ago

I think this is a good resource to start: http://betterexplained.com/articles/linear-algebra-guide/

smockman36 commented on Ask HN: How much money do recruiters make? · Posted by u/MalcolmDiggs

smockman36 · 11 years ago

I think they make a percentage of the salary of the person they helped hire.