A goodish portion of medicine is applying an algorithm to a set of circumstance. A large potion of the critical thinking has already been done for you. You just need to isolate which algorithm applies when.
The very best doctors (from a very, very good doctor), are interlocutors, teasing out what isn't obvious from what the patient is presenting an piecing out a narrative of what makes sense.
The critical thinking is much after.
You'd be surprised.
Beyond the nuts and bolts of how to do a thing, there is a fair bit of nuance and institutional knowledge that goes into any job, that isn't apparent from a set of directives.
Sometimes it takes the form of best practices. Sometimes it is knowing what wheel to grease to get something done.
Individually, they may not amount to much, but in totality they make the difference between something running smoothly and pulling your hair out.
And even in the face of this context matters, which is why LLMs make such obvious errors like putting glue on pizza and Carl generally doesn't.
Correct. Flawed as that plan is, moving their capital to a totally new location could cut the population of Jakarta by as much as 10 million people. That could make that city far more manageable.
As long as the vendor (Apple/Google/whoever) is continuing to release updates and patches, with very few exceptions, I don't bother upgrading the device. If there is a hardware fault or the battery is significantly degraded and it's a hassle to repair, that will also trigger an "upgrade" for me. Otherwise, I could care less about the latest whizzbang feature, "AI capabilities," etc.
I remember reading that the Finns started playing over radio frequencies the famous polka song "Säkkijärven polkka," which was found to be extremely effective in shutting down remote controlled land mines the Red Army placed on the ground and causing casualties for several months starting around September 1941. So much so that the Finnish Army ended its jamming practice by spring 1942 as the batteries on the Soviet mines lost its charge.
In many cases we ARE paying a lot for a good education, but we're also not getting the desired outcome in many cases. I took my kids out of public school (in one of the richest school districts in the country) for similar reasons to the OP above. They spent much of their time in class being bored and actively sandbagged by their teachers. On top of that was all the contrived "woke" indoctrination nonsense. They were already getting good grades, but now they are learning significantly faster and actually enjoy the process more.
Best thing we ever did.
The labels don't give a fuck. They have never been on the side of the artists. This is just another way they'll use to game the system to keep most of the profits in the system to themselves.
The same goes for much of the "data" driving their stock mark....er....casino.
Having lived there for years as an expat and seen entire sections of cities with many thousands of newly built flats that were vacant and stayed vacant, I think it's only a matter of time before that house of cards implodes.
The "nong min" don't take kindly to the apparatchiks that have been benefiting from the egregious corruption and self dealing. It's going to be ugly when it implodes.
Fear or corruption?
This isn't some Manhattan style project, with great secrecy over methods, attracting the best and brightest.
It is a MASSIVE wealth transfer though, disregarding law and scrutiny, with some of the most dubious leading the charge.
I would rather that it was fear driving this as there would be more evaluation of how this will play out globally instead of an endless black hole to dump the nation's wealth.
I wouldn't buy anything of consequence from IBM these days. They're going down the transactional "how do I amp up the dollars extracted from you by X% per year" route rather than focusing on what their customers want/need.
It will be interesting to see how VZ positions itself as its market share erodes. These layoffs are a very temporary band-aid to their very high SG&A costs. They still operate like an old school monopolist carrier. Consumers and businesses have more choices these days and VZ is going to have to re-learn how to earn their business.
Those have worked pretty well for me. The downside is that Samsung's longer-term support is spotty, at best. It's disheartening to buy a relatively expensive tablet and then 3 years later it is no longer getting updates from Samsung even though it's perfectly fine from a hardware/speed standpoint. So I eventually just caves and started using an ipad. A little pricey, but it works and I'm not sweating the support suddenly vanishing.
Best,
While I concede that not every person on the planet has a smartphone and not every smartphone owner wants to install an app to manage their boarding pass (frequent flier details and other things as well), it is a LOT easier to manage that way if you're a frequent traveler. The only times I have used a paper boarding pass for the last 15-ish years is when I didn't want to bring my phone to my destination (i.e. China).
I'm guessing that Ryanair has done the math and decided that they don't care if the folks who prefer paper passes choose another airline. Perhaps the cost of supporting that option exceeds what they expect to lose by some people choosing another airline.
I think the Chinese government needs to severely cull the number of EV manufacturers down to four at most: BYD, SAIC, Geely Group and Chery. And give them unlimited resources to make their EV's truly world-class vehicles that comply even with the US Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.
What's the difference between a computer salesman and a used car salesman? A used car salesman knows when he's lying.
