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In the UK at A-level (age 16-18) you may still be taught linear and dynamic programming before ever touching a line of code! (Indeed, that was the same for me!)

I wish we could stop with the “X is all you need” papers! The first one was unintuitive and so are the rest.

And certainly not Northern Ireland.

Most of this seems sensible. Governments should be spending to prepare for a changed climate, in case global warming is irreversible (which I think is the likely trajectory). Investing totally in net zero by 2050 is not responsible governing.

In the U.K., that means building flood defences for the winter, water storage for the dry summers (avoiding the inevitable cries of NIMBYs like Layla Moran) and possibly investing in AC for hotter summers.

Anyone can voluntarily pay extra tax beyond what they owe in the U.K., but very few people do (~200 between 2000 and 2017).

I think there’s tremendous value in just offloading your thoughts from your brain to a notebook!

I rarely refer to previous notes (digital or paper) even as a researcher.

We are likely a week and a bit away from new iPhone releases—a good bit of damage control at play here.

Mathematicians say that Epsilon was very small.