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I imagine as models are trained on specific codebases the need for keeping around people for deep knowledge and knowledge transfer is going away.
I'd read there was violence in Brazil, but 132 in a single raid? Damn. Not all police shootings either, apparently the gangs dropped explosives from drones
My guess is the agents will get more specialized to languages and frameworks, I could see how it would make sense on a multi-language code base or large monorepo
I'm still newb tier, I'm copy and pasting occasionally from Claude and ChatGPT. I ask it about languages I don't know so I like to at least type out Rust rather than copying it all.
I'm not sure about the percentages for other areas, but this seems significant when you think of it as % decline.
Some of it is definitely cultural, but the section of the doc that mentions these economic shocks (across time) segues into the pattern of unexpected / unwanted childlessness. These would be populations where the cohort of 0 children (as opposed to just fewer children) surged. I gather the point it was making was that where and when the childless statistics surged it was largely due to economic shocks.
The 0 children cohort is important because in many places it surged rapidly, it brought down the rate to below replacement levels. It also signals a failure to "get off the ground" as opposed to having 1 kid and stopping by choice.
EDIT: It's the section of the 'vitality curve'
Interesting point: In Japan the oil shock in early 1970s caused price inflation and it correlates with an increase in childlessness / delaying starting a family
In Korea, there was a currency crisis in the 1990s which also correlated with a rise in childlessness.
In Germany student protests of 1968 correlated with an increase in childlessness.
The entire purpose of an endowment is to help a university weather lean years without gutting its core academic programs. Yet Harvard has chosen to protect its gold pile over its scholarship, famously behaving like a hedge fund with a school attached as an afterthought. As CFO Ritu Kalra put it, the endowment is “not a source of short-term relief but a covenant across generations.” Translated from administrative jargon, that means the priority is not education but to have as big a stream of income as possible that is shielded from the influence of donors, students, and government.
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And right on cue, the university’s collapse into financialized pseudo-education is now being met with a political response that’s just as absurd. Two weeks ago, President Trump announced that Harvard had reached a tentative deal with his administration to restore $2.4 billion in frozen federal grants — on the condition that it spend $500 million to create a network of trade schools for mechanics to work on ‘‘automotive plant, motors, engines,’’ which doesn’t really make any sense to me, but okay. I mean, I think funding trade schools in general is a good idea, but I am not sure that forcing Harvard to run one at gunpoint makes sense.
Sounds like the US is trying to create a core of machinists and hands-on engineers to play catch up with Chinese manufacturing
The tax base pales in comparison to the amount of money printed just to keep everything chugging along
Is there any plan to patch benefits before they lapse? I am under the impression people aren’t getting food benefits in November? Seems nuts and ill-advised