Daniel Fernandes

Software Eng in Electronic Design Automation: Building SW to make faster HW. Web3 alt @dfern_eth
B4: @Stanford EE, @ECEIllinois

[Daniel Fernandes @daferna2]

I am now on Farcaster permanently
https://t.co/6hyiNBypGD
and trying out Bluesky
https://t.co/fFLcY661XW

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

It's nice to see that being incredibly annoying remains a bad campaign strategy

[Sreeram Kannan @sreeramkannan]

https://t.co/2PNyFNV6Oi

[rohit @krishnanrohit]

The past is a foreign country

[Daniel Fernandes @daferna2]

@wolfejosh Nothing on USGS
https://t.co/OPWQ7EfKoS

[Daniel Fernandes @daferna2]

@Duderichy LBNL Cyclotron & LLNL NIF tours were cooler TBH

[Steven Liss @This_Liss]

Had a Jane Street phone interview in 2016. "Price a 6-month forward on carrots."
There's no carrot futures market, so I build one from scratch: seasonal harvest cycles, USDA demand elasticity, cold storage decay rates.
One trader stops me. "Your storage cost function– you're modeling the carrot as dead inventory. Like grain in a silo." He asks me the metabolic respiration rate of a post-harvest carrot at 2°C. I estimate.
"Your forward is overpriced by exactly that shrinkage. The underlying is consuming its own sugars. It's alive." Good correction. I adjust the model. I think I've recovered.
Rejection email comes the next morning. Subject: "Ethical Review." My framework, they write, "relied on the severance of the root organism from its growth medium." The question about respiration was a test. The carrot was still alive and I'd built an entire derivatives structure on top of its death without questioning whether harvest was an acceptable act.
I pull up the recruiter's original email. It doesn't say Jane Street. It says Jain Street– a non-violent quantitative commodities fund.
The carrot was never supposed to be priced. It was supposed to be refused. I later learn the only candidate who passed that round was a former monk from Gujarat who sat in silence for eleven minutes and said, "I cannot put a price on life." He's now a partner.

[Tom Fornelli @TomFornelli]

Me on Unofficial St. Patrick's Day

[Tae Seok Moon @Moon_Synth_Bio]

I came back to the United States, hearing about a very sad news: Craig Venter passed away today. He is a pioneer, successfully sequenced the first Human genome, and tried to create Synthetic Cells. We lost a giant in Science. RIP.
@JCVenterInst

[Daniel Fernandes @daferna2]

@HMBrough_ Rote memorization helps in some fields. I can't say it helps in engineering...physical intuition is more important

[Daniel Fernandes @daferna2]

The real party is on FB Events

[Members of Technical Staff @mots_pod]

it's friday in SF which means if you don't have at least 3 partifuls lined up for both tonight and tomorrow night then it's over for you and you should probably leave the city

[Daniel Fernandes @daferna2]

@elihickox Hand sanitizer ASAP after touching any public surface (touchscreens, buttons, door handles)

[Daniel Fernandes @daferna2]

@JamshidHormuz @Steve_Yegge Oh and Lookout Coffee, though that's technically Campbell

[Daniel Fernandes @daferna2]

@JamshidHormuz @Steve_Yegge Great list! also add Moonwake Coffee, Tono Coffee Project, Roy's Station, Academic Coffee & Lacàphê

[Daniel Fernandes @daferna2]

@Steve_Yegge Eh? DTSJ is not a jobs center in the daytime, but come back on Friday night on a warm day and it's anything but empty

[dfern.eth (is on Farcaster) @dfern_eth]

I write about the @EFF leaving X...on Farcaster
https://t.co/gy7S7laOdb

[Daniel Fernandes @daferna2]

@pitdesi Elyan has more meat & fish, Ettan is mostly veg, but has the better DTPA location / al fresco dining.

[Daniel Fernandes @daferna2]

Bay area ppl, come thru!
https://t.co/RCgPFzHkps

[Daniel Fernandes @daferna2]

@Altimor Probably not in SF https://t.co/nIggvki4Vl

[Daniel Fernandes @daferna2]

Instant buy. Will keep on my cubicle shelf for motivation 🫡

[Maxwell Meyer @mualphaxi]

I have been dreaming of this day for a long time.

Arena is now a book publisher, and our first volume, "Silicon" is open for preorders.

It's quite unlike anything you've seen: a coffee table book capturing the ecstatic beauty of silicon technology. https://t.co/R0JLQx9Fiq

[sam laki @samlakig]

effective altruism??