Tariffs do hurt the exporter nonetheless, which I suspect is a goal in itself for Trump and some of his supporters. Agents aren't rational, this is eco 102.
Same for me... fortunately, I'm reaching the end of my career anyway. But let see how it goes. LLMs are a very recent development so it's too soon to take such drastic decisions.
On the positive side, I have some old personal projects I couldn't complete because it was too much work for me alone. I think LLMs will help for menial tasks, while I can still work on improving the design and adding features.
Everybody in my team has either a PhD or a MS. My (big tech) company rarely hires people without a college degree, unless they have outstanding accomplishments. In my case, it was a requirement or I wouldn't be working in tech.
In term of training, lectures were unequal, but overall I learned a lot. Would have been impossible to achieve the same level of knowledge on my own. The problem isn't the content, but the discipline to learn things on your own without validation, over several years. That'd take a high level of maturity I didn't have at 18.
Learned some turn around licks from Freddie King's side tracked, and played them over and over on a blues backing track.
I've been playing guitar for a long time, but rhythm wise, it took time to click. I'm much better at feeling the pulse, and starting and ending licks at the right time in the bar.
Coca Cola is often mentioned in the first lesson of a marketing class. The product would collapse without the huge amount of money they put in advertising every year.
I don't use Blind often, but whenever I do I always feel better about my job afterwards. Yeah, there are definitely parts about my job that suck, but at least it's not that bad.
They barely mention why they're even doing this. I see flashcard as a means to something (e.g. learning a language, preparing for a test...). The measured outcome should be the success in task, rather than the number of reviewed cards.
Reminds me of when I was looking for good workflows for note taking tools like Obsidian that would be relevant to me, but so many of the big articles on how to do various types of note organizations strategies all used theirs to organize notes on videos and conferences they had watched or gone to about note taking.
1. I have always loved learning things, both big and small.
2. I enjoy trivia competitions.
3. I'm interested in human memory more generally.
4. I think that spaced repetition software could be a lot better, and I'm trying to make such software. So when I study, I'm also getting the value of using and improving my own software.
I’ve thought about using spaced repetition myself. I have ADHD and I tend to forget about things I’ve learned. There are certain skills or hobbies I enjoy doing that benefit from knowing things, and i just want to better remember things I already learned.
For example, maybe I read a book that has a really key insight about how my brain works with ADHD. I’m not going to remember or apply that insight to my life unless I spend some time trying to remember it. By default it’s not going to stick for very long.
We got a commodore C64 for Christmas when I was about 8. There was a built-in basic interpreter and many books and magazines taught you about that. I don't know if you can call that coding, but I learned how to write simple programs. Then I upgraded to an Amiga, and learned some assembly and some 3D and various graphics effects, mostly from magazines and friends. I eventually got a proper CS education in college and then kept learning ever since.
In German, this concept is called "Maschinensteuer" (machine tax) or "Wertschöpfungsabgabe" (value-added levy). Interestingly, there's no English version of this Wikipedia article: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wertsch%C3%B6pfungsabgabe
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