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All the increases in density are impressive, but they come with the downside of repairability and recycling difficulties. I hope we can still repair this when parts of it break or at least recycle it properly. No matter how high tech it is, eventually this will break.

you usually only have one database

What if I use the cloud? I don't even know how many servers my database runs on. Nor do I care. It's liberating not having to think about it at all.

Never heard of this distinction between parameter and argument, to me they are homonymes. To me, argument or parameter refers to a term in the function definition as well as a term in the function call.

Functions don't have variables, named variables, that's Python, not math[0].

No, Python named arguments are a good analogy for Leibnitz notation.

What if your physics problem involves the same physical quantity twice, like speeds and masses of two bodies? Then single letter variable names are no longer unique nor meaningful.

f(v_1, m_1, v_2, m_2)

For the derivatives I would prefer writing

d_v_2 f

instead of

d_3 f

when counting arguments from 1

a massive edge was available in the form of physical reads, but almost entirely ignored

No. The word poker face exists for a reason. Everyone knew about the importance of physical reads.

I would think it is impressive, but I wouldn't find it impressive enough if it doesn't beat the established methods of forecasting. I don't start anything because I doubt it would meet my standards of being not pointless and superfluous.

If they can't deliver, they're in trouble

How are you protected against losing your investment if they can not deliver?

Price tracking

Does Bitcoin support a high enough frequency of transactions for long enough to make this possible for years into the future? Does it not become too hard to mine at some point?