I finished a PhD. My concrete advice is focus on feasible methods you know are realistic for your lab resource wise (time, money, etc)

Along with parsing various file formats, you can create duckdb files to store tables, and make related views, schema, etc. They also have a newer ducklake tool

I think a good corollary idea to "vibe coding" is the "vibe product". There is so much stuff popping in and out of existence and my excitement has declined.

Is this book just riffing about embedding space? I thought about reading it eventually, but the quoted passage is kind of annoying/tedious

No, it really just gets like that at the end which is what this chain has been going over.

Tech still broadly respects edgy, hot take contrarianism, even if they think Andreessen is stupid in this instance.

Introspection is not doomscrolling though. Being tugged around by short-lived stimuli from a feed is the opposite of deep self-reflection.

In order to go from reading the news to going outside and doing yardwork, you need to have a thought along the lines of "this doesn't feel good - I should do something else". That is introspection.

I had to, and I work in a completely different agency (NIH)

how many habeas petitions were there in previous admins?

I think the perfect set-up is hybrid, with 1-2 days office / 3-4 days home. Virtual meetings are significantly worse than in-person. But obviously the commute determines whether this is "on net" worthwhile.

> Virtual meetings are significantly worse than in-person

The problem is that "in-person" meetings are still Zoom calls for those that didn't come in, so it's the worst of both worlds.

My team has at least one person in every continent (except Africa and the Antarctic, but we do have someone on Réunion), so meetings are and will always be video conferences.

That's definitely true - ideally, there would be one day where almost everyone comes in for the all-hands meeting. Whether that is realistic depends..

I have a long commute to get to an office where everyone is wearing noise cancelling headphones for meetings...

Ha! That seems like a waste. As I said, commute time determines whether its worth it.

There are other public healthcare models besides Beveridge though. Some countries do the payment & financing via gov, but the actual service is a mix of public/private. Not a perfect solution, but in my opinion better than what we have now. Maybe more achievable than Beveridge too.

Norway funds health care through taxation, seems to work pretty well here. But we don't have PFI, instead there are fully private healthcare companies that act as suppliers of services such as MRI, CAT scans, etc. So if your GP orders an X-ray or MRI you will most likely get it done by a private company rather than the local hospital. The patient doesn't really see any difference most of the cost is borne by the state, the patient pays a small egenandel (like copay in the US, excess in UK insurance terms) wherever it is done.

I'm not sure how the other Nordic countries do it but I think it's probably similar.