Highs had a delay of 49 years from paper to prize, though he got the prize the year after his theory was experimentally confirmed.

I'm sorry you're blaming the Biden admin for a bush era policy why?

Anti authoritarian patriots?

Every technical paper I've read that IBM publish at an ML conference has been P-hacked to hell. Stay away.

Links? Maybe just paper titles?

I've spent much of my last four years systematically turning down every project a specific director has launched.

The turn downs save enormous amounts of our hardware budget, and each time are measured as not happening users.

No one has yet noticed that basically none of that directors projects are still running and put together that the things he builds stop working after two years.

I keep getting paid good senior engineer money, and don't have to think too hard about what my next project should be. But it's really demoralizing to realize that he will continue to be promoted.

Your surprise over a £3 fee strikes me as a perfect illustration of crypto: profoundly naive, inexperienced investors getting a hard lesson in how unregulated markets work.

I hope, some years down the line, you take the broader life lesson that anyone promising you money for nothing does not have your best interests at heart.

So I don't agree with your view here. The majority of my savings were in index funds which have done very well over the years. Dipping in to a high risk investment is I think perfectly reasonable. What would be insane is if I kept on investing - or continued to do so even now. But in the spirit of good will I will take the merits of your comment :)

You make it sound like a £3 transaction fee is evidence of some kind of scamminess or preying on naivety but most normal, regulated investment platforms, crypto or not, come with transaction fees, account fees, fund management fees and so on. Usually they are taking a lot more than £3 from you too. That's even before we get into the world of professional financial "advice" and the commissions they just happen to earn when you buy the one they recommend. Compared to all the ways the traditional investment world seeks to milk you, Coinbase's flat fee per trade looks admirably straightforward.

Fees are a more honorable way to keep the lights on than the FTX ‘take the money and run’ business plan.

Mmmm that's a reasonable point - I didn't mind paying fees for the coins, but I do think its a little iffy about fees to withdraw...

On another note, one thing about Coinbase that struck me, was that on the app/website it doesn't actually show you how much money you put in / what the return on your investment is (I used a spreadsheet to track my own investment "success").

I suspect Coinbase does not do this deliberately - as many, many people who invest in Crypto lose money and it doesn't want to highlight this point too much.

£3 fee isn’t a withdrawal fee, it’s a transaction fee to sell your bitcoin for pounds. The actual withdrawal of pounds to you bank account is free.

Likewise, you could withdraw your bitcoin to your own wallet for free. The fee comes when you change from one type of currency to another.

I think the reason they don’t show return on investment is because Coinbase presents itself as an exchange, not an investment platform. The purpose is to facilitate the exchange of currency from one kind to another. They’re not positioning themselves as trying to help you build up retirement nest egg.

The surprise over the $3 fee indicates just how many tricks of the light are used to hide exactly how bad finance is, then make dishonest comparisons to crypto markets.

In my experience crypto exchanges have far fewer hidden fees than conventional banks do.

Heavy drinking.

Usually they're choosing between a set of bad options.

The masters might help you better explore why this is not a realistic concern :) I got a lot of value from mine.

The risk in CS that I worry about right now is suppressed wages as more folks enter the field and the large companies get better at paying us less.

This is a big concern of mine. Maybe all the dev jobs don’t go away, but our wages are suppressed enough that I might as well do something else.

Not to diminish the achievement, but not making that graph log scale was deeply dishonest.

How is it dishonest?

A log curve, rather than linear, would make the bars in the center taller and not give the same appearance of a massive change in the measurement. Not for me to say, but I'm guessing that, as is, it doesn't represent the work put into the effort as well as possible.

Yes, that's what a log scale does to a graph. But why do you feel a log scale is appropriate in this situation? To me, a linear scale is a much better choice. The underlying data isn't necessarily exponential, so there isn't a compelling reason to use a log scale.

Yerba Mate is brewed, like tea. You can buy the herb and brew it yourself, like loose tea. Yerba Mate is not a company, it's a drink with three thousand of years of history. The reason many energy drink companies add so much sugar is that it's extremely bitter. I like mine bitter, and many drink it straight.

I certainly wouldn't call it "extremely" bitter, but I guess it might be for you. To me, it's somewhat bitter but much less bitter than coffee. There's a lot of genetic variation in human bitter taste receptors, and different foods/beverages just taste inherently different to different people, before people even begin to develop preferences and acquire acquired tastes.

Acquired taste, just like coffee or beer. They don't need sugar.

That's right. I prefer it with a bit of sweetner, though. And the last time I bought online I got an orange flavored yerba from a brand called CBSé - probably the best one I've tried yet. This brand has lots of different flavors of yerba, it's excellent. The place I discovered it is Pampa Direct, here https://pampadirect.com/mate-yerba-mate/