the88doctor

Incentivizing quality over quantity always leads to more fraud. It happens in academia, and it happens in sales (e.g. Bank of America scandal). If I need more of X to get promoted or to get my bonus, then it's easiest to just create fake X.

I've moved 22 times in my life. I've never moved from an area due to a single neighbor, but some areas you just feel different than everyone living around you. That causes you (or at least me) to think about moving.

I definitely need to move out of Florida before having kids.

Not sure what data you're looking at, but that's completely off. Trailing 12 month food inflation is over 4%. Transportation inflation is over 10%. Services excluding energy are up 5.9%.

3% construction loans would majorly undermine the Fed's effort to fight inflation

"I wouldn't underestimate how... having one company as both your registrar and cloud service provider can impact the choice of which otherwise commodity service to use." THIS. Even if I'm just spinning up a simple blog, unless I'm buying a premium domain name, I'm gonna buy it on Bluehost instead of a cheaper registrar like Namecheap just to avoid the few minutes of work and few hours of wait time to link that domain with another hosting service.

True, but I think a human graphic artist would have known what I was asking for

The generator isn't very accurate. I prompted "a sad bald construction worker" and I got a smiling construction worker wearing a hard hat. Only 1 out of 3 adjectives was implemented.

I started my PhD doing algebraic topology and tried using TDA for a couple industry projects before eventually switching to work on quantum computing algorithms because I decided TDA wasn't that useful. It's definitely a solution in search of a problem, and while there do seem to be a couple interesting use cases (such as genetic data analysis), I completely agree with you that there are better alternatives in most situations.