I read the book 'Homelessness is a Housing Problem' by Greg Colburn recently, it has a lot of data and makes a good argument for this position. A good direct comparison is between Seattle, WA and Charlotte, NC... they've both experienced a ton of growth in the last couple decades, but Charlotte's more favorable geography has made it much easier to build housing to keep up with this growth.
You can also look at places like West Virginia, or Balitmore, which have high rates of crime/addiction but low rates of homelessness- housing is cheap over there.
But isn't the crime and livability correlated such that low crime areas like Seattle are more desirable places to live. And, that's why housing is more expensive?
Baltimore is very high crime and as such inexpensive and as such low levels of homelessness.
Inflation is the rate of change. If inflation is positive prices are rising. Inflation can be declining (second derivative) but still positive.
Right now inflation over a 12 month period is higher than the historical norm of about 2%, but is falling. For individual months it’s been mostly normal levels.
Seems like a good way to validate it would be to have everyone play the same set of songs. Then to tell if the predictions work, see if it can find each different song each individual plays. I hope the design wasn't as bad as you say.
No kidding. I worked for a while at a startup focused on creating robots that can do a fairly difficult, human involved industrial task. The software in question used existing robotic arms and attempted to automate the work.
The challenges associated with that project were some of the hairiest things I've seen in my career, and they still don't really have it working last I heard. If GPT-4 can even _help_ write a system like that in six months, I'll eat my hat.
Seriously, if by 8/21/23 you can demonstrate a robot perform a task that previously took a human to do, which is currently outside the mainstream scope of automation, using code that an LLM wrote, please email me a video to the address in my profile and I will record a video of myself eating my favorite hat. Subject to terms and conditions, etc.
An associate is typically a fresh MBA grad or someone with a few years of tenure out of school.
Awkward imbalance of levels aside, I enjoy the consulting lifestyle personally. It’s interesting to work with many different clients and have enough political clout to get things done on a fast timeline.
They do. The client paid a load of money to hear what the consultant said, there’s a lot of incentive to act on it otherwise you’re the exec that hired a load of consultants only to ignore them.
