Love this! Would have liked to see something like textract for a pre-LLM benchmark (but of course that's expensive), and also a distinction between handwritten text and printed one.
A lot of comments here about how diversity is great etc etc. Yes, but also a lot of people value consistency. Now that Win10 is gone and people are reluctant to use Win11, it would be a great opportunity to switch. Yet even I am still reluctant to switch entirely (after using Linux as my daily driver some years ago) due to the lack of UI/UX consistency (I have to use Ubuntu at work; have Mint in my jellyfin pc at home, and even between those there are a lot of annoying differences)
Same here. My three-year old loved maps and we always played with them (making map of her room, etc etc)
We enrolled her at the local Montessori and she rushed to the map section but was told she is forbidden from using it until she takes the lesson on that or whatever is called. That lesson was 2-3 months away, and meanwhile all other kids were able to play with the maps.
This, combined with other rigidities and a crazy schedule totally unsuited for working parents (9-1pm wtf) made it impossible. After struggling a lot for two months, she went back to her old daycare and was very happy there, and is now at her elementary school now
I’m by far not an expert on it (my wife is, she teaches Montessori), but AFAIK what you observed was because it isn’t viewed as play, but as work - as in school work. All of the activities are called “works,” and they’re taken very seriously.
Part of this is, I think, to teach responsibility; for example, if a student gets a work out, they’re expected to put it back exactly how they found it. Montessori classrooms are incredibly well-organized, with everything having its (labeled) place.
Update: I asked my wife, she said that without other context, it sounded like the school may not be “following the child,” a core tenet of Montessori. She said that while they might steer a new student away from that initially, if they’re clearly interested, she’ll bump that lesson up early instead of when it was scheduled.
That kinda misses the point for me. I use LLMs a lot and have become an invaluable part of my work (coding, collecting data, proof-reading text) and even personal time (amazing Japanese menu translator!).
But I still think they can "fail" in the sense that current investments need an absurd amount of profits in order to have a positive NPV. Data centers depreciate fast, so if you just did $500bn in capex, you better make sure you will get $50bn/yr out of it from the get go or you will fail.
And that's the problem; even if sales are high, all vendors are bleeding money and so far the offerings are commoditized enough that I can't see how they will recoup their investment.
So long as there is a reasonable earning potential, or actually a reasonable expectation that the market will expect a decent earning potential the capital will be there.
Unlike crypto (which has yet to fail as a category, just dips), the elephants taking up the tens of billions in investments aren't purely speculative pyramid schemes.
It's what E-Trade lists for dividend yield or SEC yield. I have no idea if it's before or after exchange to USD. The total return is from totalrealreturns.com, it accounts for USD inflation and includes yield (at least I think), but probably didn't include the Oct 10 drop itself.
There's a lot of ways to siphon money out of firms. People declare their car as a "work vehicle", CEOs fly to the beach on the company's jet, etc.
So I guess you want some level of corporate tax? (it's the same for why there are large sales tax in developing countries; sure they are less efficient than income taxes, but lots of people evade those)
>There's a lot of ways to siphon money out of firms. People declare their car as a "work vehicle", CEOs fly to the beach on the company's jet, etc.
That's why there are specific IRS regulations for this[1]. "Company cars" basically disappeared as a result. Moreover contrary to what you imply, corporate taxes don't really solve this issue either. Corporate taxes are paid on profit, not revenue, and expenses like "work vehicles" or private jets aren't taxed either way.
> Dominion Voting Systems — the voting machine behemoth that President Trump and his allies baselessly attacked after the 2020 election — has been sold to a Missouri-based company run by a former Republican election official, Axios has learned.
> The intrigue: As part of its deal with Dominion, Liberty officials asked Dominion to settle several other defamation lawsuits against Trump allies who attacked the company over the 2020 election results.
Good luck; we probably crossed paths (I was helping a bit on the hiring side at some point). A postdoc is a really great option, I've seen lots of people do that before going for a bschool so it can definitely can work.
BTW one other thing besides what you mentioned is not just the freeze but the firings. FDIC lost 30% of staff, BOG is going to reduce maybe 10%, CFPB is no more, etc. so the market is actually being flooded with senior economists. They won't compete directly with the posts you want but still flood the market.
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