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Softforks: Benefits & Tradeoffs
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Jimmy Song is a Venture Partner for Blockchain Capital, the general partner of Blockchain Capital’s venture funds. Jimmy, a Bitcoin Core developer, brings more than 20 years’ of deep technical expertise, programming, and development experience to the firm. Prior to joining Blockchain Capital, Jimmy served as a developer and programmer at more than a dozen start-ups. Most recently, he served as principal architect at Paxos and vice president of engineering at Amory Technologies, where he managed the development of enterprise-level Bitcoin wallet software. Jimmy started in Bitcoin Development in 2013 and has worked on numerous Bitcoin projects such as Bitcoin Core, btcd, Armory, pycoin and colored coins. Jimmy teaches developers how to program Bitcoin through his seminar Programming Blockchain. He is the editor and author of popular blog, Bitcoin Tech Talk and YouTube Off Chain with Jimmy Song. Jimmy earned his B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan.
View the profilePassionate about knowledge and scientific truth, (and the scientific methods used to uncover the truth), I've explored the fields of economics and psychology, to look at what/how/why people know what they know, and why/how they reveal that information. LinkedIn Connection Policy: I only "connect" with people that I've physically met or personally corresponded with. LinkedIn profiles are already public, so nothing is gained from meaningless connections (in fact, quite the reverse: the whole value proposition of LinkedIn is destroyed). I consider myself to be exceptionally skilled in the art of statistical inference (I am familiar with the theory and practice of the major methods [regression, singular value decomposition] as well as under-performed methods [visualization, corrections for bias/multiple-comparisons, epistemology]). Full-Time Programming/Development Experience: R/S+, GAMS, Python, Stata, SAS. Power User: Excel (incl macros/VBA), PowerPoint, Minitab, JMP, SPSS, OpenRefine ("GoogleRefine"). Experienced-With-But-Not-Using-At-Present: SQL, Batch Scripting, MS Project, LYX/LaTeX, MATLAB, MS Visio,
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