Sort of, but lenders aren't looking for people who have good financial sense.

Lenders are looking for people who will borrow a lot of money, then continue paying on that loan. Which is not the same thing as having financial sense.

That is very possible because having open (especially long term) debts improves your credit rating. Once you pay it off completely, it's not open anymore.

Since the Cretaceous period, apparently. There is enough alcohol present in the environment that most species have found a way to metabolize it. Same with mercury: although it's not useful, it's omnipresence in the environment means our bodies needed to develop a way to deal with it.

Still available. It's not research, it was quoting research.

I read your post twice, but I'm not actually sure what you are saying.

I don't know the answer but DeepSeek does actively censor things.

Not to call you ignorant, but Evergrand trading was suspended, the chairman was arrested, and the company was liquidated.

I've looked, and I can't find that they've published a paper explaining their methods. We don't know how much input humans gave to help them solve the problem.

If they solved it with nothing more than the problem description, that does seem impressive.

At the ICPC there are usually several programmers who are quite good. Quick, efficient, and effective. Harvey Mudd university in particular had a system that produced very good programmers, even though it's a university most people haven't heard of.

There are books to teach about how to gain the skills, but I think an important part is to practice programming a LOT. If I were designing a CS curriculum today, I would have students write a program every day (every weekday).

The question there is then, how did the computer know which answer is correct? Did a human create a test dataset? Because the sample data in the problem description is not enough to get the right answer. That is, you can write a program that perfectly solves the sample data but doesn't actually solve the problem.

Which core feature doesn't work on Windows 11 without TPM?

I don't even notice it anymore ever since my clocks change automatically.

If China wants to do research, great. The more research gets done, the better.

Worth mentioning that the tiny minority has gotten a lot more noisy lately (approximately from when smartphones became common. Another Eternal September, etc).

It's hard to know because they hide statistics when they look bad. They are motivated at all levels of government to hide things that make them look bad. We do have some things though:

https://www.bbc.com/news/artic...
https://gulfnews.com/world/asi...
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/20...