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Slight correction (can't edit): law education is most common for politicians in Western countries, but not the majority.

For the US, 32% of the house and 47% of the senate holds a law degree.

While the extreme "master of one" exists, most academics I know have cross-cutting interests.

We also shouldn't forget that the vast majority of politicians today are lawyers by education. To whatever degree your assumption holds, it is true of the status quo today as well. Even in that case, having a more diverse set of "masters of one" would be an improvement.

Order of operations is clear. Division and multiplication have the same order and are evaluated left to right.

-4.9 is unequivocally correct.

Any papers you'd recommend?

The thing that bothers me about most paywalls is that they want you to take a subscription to remove it. I've got more than enough subscriptions in my life.

Why does no one use the Google Pay or Apple Pay integration for single articles? Have me pay a buck for an article, and I'd happily do so.

Automatic Phoneme Recognition (APR). There are some models that do this, but they're only so-so.

It looks more similar to the 1929 crash to me, where "too big to fail" blue chip stocks were overinvested and overvalued, and the value adjustments rippled through the rest of the economy. If NVIDIA does get a meaningful value adjustment downwards, it'll probably survive, but it'll impact the S&P500. People will need to sell off other stocks to cover the losses, etc. etc.

There's a pretty big difference between "we need laws and regulations" and "let Trump do whatever he feels like today."

How does a billion break down into 49 million? I'm assuming you mean 400 and 90 million?

100%. It really depends on the application domain and system complexity.

I see a lot of people speaking about a 10x productivity improvement and so on. When I work on hobby projects, I do see that. Just last weekend, I set up a hobby project that I've been thinking about for a while. I'm pretty sure it would have taken me at least a week to implement manually, but instead, it took me three hours.

But some of the systems I have to work on during the day are so big and complicated that you can spend multiple days on a small feature or even just tracking down a bug, even with the support of Opus.

Expecting even a 2x productivity improvement on some those systems is wildly unrealistic. I'm seeing a lot of people get stressed out because the productivity gains from simple application building trickle into the expectations for these complex systems.

That said, if things keep improving at this rate it might just be a matter of time.

I set up mine with WSL and used a Linux terminal over xserver. Once you have a decent unix shell (and a good terminal) it's fine. VSCode etc work fine. This was 2020ish, things might've gotten easier now.

But I do prefer a Linux or Mac for development, just because it's so much less hassle to set up.

Windows developers who don't set up a good terminal environment... I honestly don't know how they manage.

I think there are no safe harbor investments at this time. Even gold is unpredictable.

Personally I went 80% world excl US and 20% equal weight S&P500 to hedge against what I think is an AI bubble. But if the market decides to adjust Nvidia's valuation 20% downward next week, I expect there to be ripple effects throughout the economy.

(Like the .com bubble, I think the tech is genuinely transformative and here to stay, but the valuations are just ridiculous.)

The notation is supposed to mean: you have a matrix Q, and also a shared K=V matrix.

I agree with GP that it's super confusing to us the minus sign as a delimiter between formulas. The tuple notation suggested elsewhere would be way clearer.

IMO the easiest way to open the straight is for the US to back down. "The EU helping the US" doesn't sound like a great way to achieve that.

I don't want the EU to join a protracted Iran war.

I agree with the sentiment, but this is not something I can send my colleagues.

You can be annoyed and right, and still avoid being crass.