The Brothers Karamazov reads like young adult literature? Hard disagree there. Maybe in terms of how navel-gazey it is, but the themes are not at all young adult.
> Romeo and Juliet is so overdone in pop culture there's nothing interesting there
The whole point is to read the actual primary text that has been so done, re-done, overdone. And hopefully to recognize there's some real beauty and drama in there
> Anyone who scores near perfect (within the margin of error) should be admitted to at least one UC campus
You really don't see a problem with that? Our best students should not be "admitted to at least one UC campus". They should have their pick of the UCs and should be getting generous scholarships to entice them. There is absolutely loads of bunching near the top the distribution which makes it impossible for actually-top students to differentiate themselves.
Yes, the scores at the top are way too bunched. A perfect score should indicate generational genius, not the 100th smartest kid your year in California.
It depends what you mean by locally. I don't foresee running a model on my laptop anytime soon to power a coding agent. Far more likely is an infra team at my company operating an open source model on cloud infrastructure. When they're already paying $1000 / month / dev, it starts to pencil pretty quickly.
> And frankly, it’s a loss for the nation: When you shrink the pipeline of basic discovery research, you choke off the flow of future solutions, innovations and cures – and you shrink the supply of future scientists.
Actually an enormous whitepill on Burning Man. Modest amounts of debris, real accountability, and improvement over time despite overall growth. You really can't ask for much more.
You mean being affected by the constant outages that make the product literally unusable? If you were doing any serious work with it you might understand.