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I'm a quantitative analyst working on credit risk modeling at PNC Financial Services. I earned my PhD doing computational neuroscience, working with decision making processes and investigating functional connectivity between different parts of the human brain. I've also worked as a freelance web developer and IT consultant. One of my favorite pastimes is poi spinning.

You can learn more about me on my LinkedIn page. Feel free to contact me about anything and everything at eykanal at erikdev dot com.


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comment Are these good reasons for moving to Microsoft web development platform?
To address your "Problem" rather than "Question", some excellent resources have recently been developed to help you figure out the "what's next" for your php knowledge.
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Nice, this blog post seems identical to what you describe. Do you ever find that you miss the squashed and deleted commits?
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comment Completion time on a company where the supervisors don't know programming
@Phil - Do people who bluff in poker "sacrifice their integrity"? No, it's the rules of the game. You can call a poker player a "liar", but many would disagree with your use of the word. Bureaucracy has it's own rules, and padding estimate is part of the game. You can call it "lying", but many would disagree with your use of the word.