I don't think that the comment above was speaking in hard and fast rules. They were more making the point that men and women may generally have different interests and that those interests will impact career choices. There wasn't any value judgement about women getting into IT being weird, but more a statement that a 50/50 split may not be feasible if the incoming pipeline is 70/30 due to the interests of those respective individuals.
If you have people telling you that you're weird for your interests, then they're likely either self-conscious or an ass. That goes for most generalizations that evaluate skill or ideas based on the attributes of the person vs. the merit of the idea itself... but that is a different discussion :)
Not to undercut your point too much, but no one comes out of university learning about the latest and greatest tech unless they went to a graduate program where they did research in tech. They may have played around with it more on their own time, but most universities aren't teaching cutting edge stuff.
And yet so many dev interviews are focused on the things that they grill you on in CS classes for four years, yet most devs will then hardly touch for the rest of their careers.
This is like saying that access to newspapers is a privilege and not a right. What use is free speech if there is no common medium on which to distribute it? This is another case of people blaming the tool instead of the people that are doing bad things.
This is really cool! I hope that you can rise above the comments of the "this isn't good enough" or "zero carbon or bust" crowd. This type of innovation is what we need to move the needle in a realistic manner and that helps to build on the infrastructure that we already have in place.
I'm excited to see what comes of this in the coming years!
I'm conflicted. This is clearly better than what we have but I was really hoping for a carbon negative future. I hope projects like this are a stepping stone and not a handbrake on progress.
Wouldn’t this help carbon negativity eventually? The world can just pay to sequester fuel produced this way, and bring concentrations down to preindustrial levels.
Ye on reflection and reading more comments from the founder I'm tentatively positive on this. Localised air pollution from burning of fuels and globally elevated co2 levels are two distinct problems. Solving one is already a big step in the right direction.
Precisely! Replacing all gasoline and diesel engines, if that's even possible, will take decades. We need something other than fossil fuels for them in the mean time.
You can build user defined functions in Excel with VBA as well as with Python through something like xlwings. One of the issues that I ran into with xlwings (or any third party integration into the Office suite) is portability between users.
The ubiquity of Excel is both a blessing and a curse in that everyone has it, so everyone uses it, regardless of whether or not it is the best tool for the job.
Google Colaboratory is now Ubiquitous in the sense you use the term, as is Microsoft Azure Notebooks, so the Ubiquity argument is no longer unique to Excel. The big argument in favor of notebooks is transparency and the breadth of tools that they can make use of. Economists will increasingly move away from Excel as the QuantEcon website demonstrates. Perhaps accountants will still uses spreadsheets, after all they invented them, but it's unclear why anyone else really needs them when there are better tools available.
This is really good advice. With all the different places you can play the same note on guitar, it makes it a little more difficult to visualize. The one note to one key ratio can help to make things like chord structures and inversions make a lot more sense.
Thermal properties of the chip and any issues arising from those are pieces that the engineers should have sussed out in the beginning though. If I don't put a heatsink and fan on my desktop CPU, then is that Intel's fault? Of course not.
Hopefully the firmware can take care of the issue for those impacted.
That isn't in the cards for most people considering you can buy laptops for a fraction of the price and also that most people are getting Windows PC's from their employer
Demand functions aren't generally straight like the illustrative graphs used in intro classes. What you end up with is easy replacement with similar goods. Being able to differentiate goods in food-service seems like a very difficult proposition without some sort of brand recognition. Because of that, if someone can purchase some food that is equal or close enough to equal at a significant (significance as defined by the consumer utility) then they will go with the cheaper option.
While raising prices seems like the simple solution to this issue, the reality is likely that they would quickly - if not immediately - price themselves out of the market.
Supply and demand curve apply to labor too though, right? At some point (in the near future if the premise of the article holds), the labor won't be available at the current price. Restaurants that won't raise wages won't be able to offer good service to their customers, and ones that do raise wages will be able to offer good service. The competing classes of restaurants are no longer substitute goods.
(Not an economist, for the benefit of anybody who doesn't find that patently obvious ;-)
ETA: I don't see the reason for the downvotes on the parent. It seems like a pretty reasonable explanation as to why there would be a brutal race to the bottom in restaurant industry. But again, my economics background is limited. Maybe somebody could explain the flaw in the argument?
It feels like a straw man argument. Food is a basic necessity, and there is a threshold where you grumble but still open your wallet to pay up, rather than walk away. Overtime you get de-sensitized to the higher price and the fact that the everything on the dollar menu actually cost $1.29 doesn't phase you.
I think the restaurant industry should look more holistically at options for dynamic pricing ala Uber. These could increase their margins enough to actually address the labor costs more effectively.
Well, food is a basic necessity but restaurants aren't. Prices going up at a restaurant doesn't necessarily mean that the local Safeway needs to raise their prices as well.
If you have people telling you that you're weird for your interests, then they're likely either self-conscious or an ass. That goes for most generalizations that evaluate skill or ideas based on the attributes of the person vs. the merit of the idea itself... but that is a different discussion :)