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Cool. Now try writing a Python compiler in 500 lines of C.

Not really symbolic reasoning. I'm thinking more along the line of classic ML techniques like Random Forest/GLMs have long been successfully applied to business problems.

> I'd also add, maybe controversially, that anyone using "AI" to make some kind of basic prediction (say for personalization, demand planning, medical decisions, really most tabula…

Yes, backend engineers do get paid more in general. I was just wondering why this runs contrary to OP's explanation that "closeness" to user triumphs job difficulty (when it comes …

Interesting. I wonder if this distinction applies within software as well. For example, systems programmers getting paid less than application programmers because the latter makes …

> If costs get too high Asian companies win Wouldn't this apply to software companies as well? Yet we see higher pay, rather than imports/outsourcing.

According to the youtube description, that video was originally aired in 2007.

> If the Federal Reserve sticks to its guns and gets rates up, and keeps them there, it will be unsurprising to see "hard" engineering jobs be valuable again, while all the CSS peo…

>It's strictly a viewer only, so it doesn't even have rudimentary annotations like highlights or underlines SumatraPDF supports basic annotations as of version 3.3 https://www.suma…

> For instance building some state control engine for rockets etc. Just out of curiosity: are there companies actually writing mission-critical code in a Haskell? My impression is …

Agree with your points. However, parent commenter could have specified they were referring to software tech, not technology in general.

isn't biotech a kind of "tech"?

Imperial College actually used to offer a BSc Physics and Music Performance course[1] (it was suspended recently). This is notable because dual majors, even between similar/adjacen…

Most common non-STEM degree maybe. I'm sure there are a lot more EE/ physics/ math grads working as programmers than music grads.

Links to all chapters on one page: https://golemarms.github.io/accidental_empires/