If you're interested in reading about cyberpunk and why today it feels "dated" - or at least to me, how it didn't manage to reinvent itself and remains crystallized in time -, there's a wonderful article here: https://forums.insertcredit.com/t/what-was-cyberpunk-in-memo...
All the GILectomy plans IIRC also include single threaded performance improvements to offset any such costs. So while performance vs GIL is maybe worse for single threaded for the same Python version, performance will still be ahead of where it is today for single-threaded python (assuming everything goes according to plan). That's also why multi-threaded performance will be more than just existing perf * number of cores (vs what it is today, not what removing the GIL alone provides).
Better VR tech won't make people buy VR. You could literally offer them a Star Trek holodeck and they still wouldn't buy in. People don't buy it because they don't see the point.
This was even true in Star Trek. People could do literally anything on a holodeck and the writers still had them going to Risa for a holiday.
There is no chance of VR going mainstream until someone solves the fundamental human problem of people preferring to do things in real life.
The expensive Apple 1m USB-C I believe is a full-featured cable and you pay for it.
A lot of the cables that get included with devices only supports the subset of features that device needs - sometimes down to just power delivery only.
Cables are much more complicated now with embedded chips and so on so you need to select and use them as if they were any other electronic you would spend time reviewing the specs or comparisons on.
In my experience with my interns, many of whom graduated from Harvard like me, some students at all universities suffer from burnout from their strenuous childhoods. So I sympathize that some kids need to chill a little. I wouldn’t call it self sabotage, but I understand the author is just trying to understand their classmates better.
I’m not sure if a cry for help / agitating at the university will matter. I’m not sure it’s so easy to blame parents either.
Lowell, Palo Alto, Amador Valley, Mission Viejo and Lynbrook are so ridiculously stressful. And that’s just in the Bay Area in California. Some parents from here send their kids to Exeter and Andover, which also really work the kids to the bone. Is Nightengale Bamford “easy?” Dalton and Trinity? Ultimately as long as there are so few spots for so many kids with genuine cognitive gifts, parents, students and teachers will deem insane competition in high schools rational. And that will manifest in mental health issues - ranging from quirks to crises - later in life.
The black box nature of a neural net is a problem. For model based design, a bit more accuracy out of a black box doesn't really help when you need, for example, state space matrices in a control design.
Be advised it's quite long