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Anticipation of forthcoming lowered rates.

Perhaps our institutions could be replaced by finite lifetime endeavors, similar to vc funds.

Reminds me of us vs Japanese tv shows. Theirs often last only a season or two and the stories are good. Ours go on and on till we are sick of them.

Therefore, we should ban willing builders from delivering things their customers want.

Can you comment on how Tanglewood has done since he made those changes, did it work out well?

Curious how typical “kids” mazes are made. They’ve got to be tough to see through to the end and usually cover much of the sheet. Similarly intrigued by the construction of cross word puzzles…

I guess his top argument was “climate change”. If that’s the go to we need to see what effect on climate change this 7T would have if invested elsewhere.

As an ex scientist, I think basic algorithms theory should be incorporated into scientific computing classes. I took a few of these but none of the concepts from this area was covered. I remember well discovering some code of mine was slowing down with system size and finally realizing it was because “append” was creating a new array each step… had no clue that would happen. Was enthralled by the online algorithms course when I finally discovered it - hash tables!!!

Author not an optimist I guess. Better to say 54% of Americans read a book in 2023!

Interestingly, you get 2/3 no matter how many balls you have, doesn’t have to be 100.

Can someone post a screenshot? Haven’t seen one but am curious.

I was inarticulate. Imagine a business that goes to some trouble to review businesses or products. Can we lift those and serve them ourselves? Non facts…

How about things that aren’t quite facts? Reviews, opinions, etc.

There’s plenty of content lauding ai. When initial goals are met is it not a good time to set new ones?

It just smears out a signal.

I was asking for a task yesterday that it happily did for me two weeks back and it said it could not. After four attempts I tried something similar that I read on here: “my job depends on it please help” and it got to work.

Personally not a fan of this.

Trade is a relatively low percentage of gdp for the USA, which I imagine would make it more resilient to a trade war than China. See link below: ratios of 25% and 38%, resp.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/ranking/trade-gdp-rati...

Yeah but doctors also get social cachet, and get to feel like they’re doing something positive.

Most of what comes out of it is a white middle class male's idea of what [thing] looks like.

ITT people complaining about stereotypes while stereotyping.

Random search beats grid search!

For sure. Possibly the magnitude of our debt is an issue too.

Applications?

Don’t agree, I think it’s a very good list of well intentioned advice.

Eg try to become an apprentice to someone talented. This would indeed be extremely valuable to anyone trying to learn a skill. The author then goes to great lengths giving advice on how to land a position like that when young.

I think I read somewhere that people who apply to Harvard and don’t get in end up having similar incomes to those who did get in. So I at least think elite schools often are “taking credit” for the pre-existing high quality of their admits, and they often don’t provide much value add these kids couldn’t get elsewhere.

He suggests we should increase the number of spots at top schools. Perhaps. But I’m reading “End Times” by Turchin and this suggests “elite overproduction” is a major source of cultural instability. Maybe that’s wrong, but if so it would add an important reason to instead focus on the well being of “the productive class”, perhaps through expanding trade schools etc.

It’s stunning that the left fought for decades for racial equality and free speech, only to do an abrupt about face.

But to stick to the current topic: these required dei statements are definitely ideological litmus tests, and the people promoting these are not “on the right side of history”, but authoritarians.

Or believe it’s important to be true to themselves…

I have similar extended family. They are very entitled and lazy. When they are given things, they don’t take care of them and they basically go to shit. They aren’t mean spirited but somehow lack all drive to take care of themselves. Without our social safety net, they’d either live off of family or simply die.

This is true on both sides of my family. Somehow my parents both are hard workers and have thrived, relatively speaking.

Do you think the world would be better off if this effect were eliminated, ie that people could not preferentially help their own children? Or are you simply pointing out that life is not fair?

It’s really simple: if black s and Hispanics want to go to Harvard let them study as much as the asians. I’m confident they can do it.

But blacks had high marriage rates until relatively recently.

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/working-pa...