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As an MLE who comes from backend web dev, I have flip-flopped on notebooks. I initially felt that everything should be in a python script. But I see the utility in notebooks now.

For notebooks in an ML pipeline, I find that data issues are usually where things fail. Being able to run code "up to" a certain cell and create plots is invaluable. Creating reports by creating a data frame and displaying it as a cell is also super-handy.

You say, "dial some logic in", which is begging the wrong question (in my experience, at least). The logic in ML is usually very strait forward. It's about the data coming into your process and how your models are interacting with it.

How would that work in a public school setting? Seems like there are too many kids and not enough teachers/time to implement this across all subjects.

If you are right, and oral exams become the best way to evaluate student learning, then I could see smaller private schools becoming more popular as a correlation.

Imagine you invested $100 into my company. Let's say my company specialized in doing absolutely nothing, as in, the company had a bank account and produced/sold nothing. In our little toy world where you always make money on investments, two weeks in I returned $150 to you (you've made $50).

This brings up questions like "where did that extra $50 come from", but maybe you get the point of the original comment now.

Because ideas that don't add value should not be pursued, else you are wasting resources.

Imagine how dysfunctional the world would be if you could never loose money investing in something.

"... are shorthands for the vectors encoding the two basis states of a two dimensional vector space." How many beginner's know what a basis of a vector space is -- how about unitary operators -- Eigen stuff?

The word "beginner" does a disservice to the level you need to be at to start wadding into quantum stuff. At a minimum, you better not be a beginner of linear algebra!

There is, imo, no better way to discourage people than saying this stuff is for "beginners".

"You see, Einstein had a problem with it because it seems to conflict with the speed of light limit in Special Relativity. We know today that this is not the case, quantum mechanics does not conflict with Special Relativity because no useful information can be sent between entangled particles." -- So how does quantum communication work? I thought it leveraged entanglement to convey information such that it became untamperable.

For me its a linear view of how I got somewhere when I'm doing exploratory research. Usually a tree of tabs (I use side tabs) will start with a google search, then go to a site, then another site, then another. When I find something interesting and think "how did I get here again?" and I can just glance at my open tabs.

This context is useful if I get sidetracked/distracted by a coworker, so I can retrace why I was looking at a certain page.