The frustrating thing is that the math and AI support in the python ecosystem is arguably the best. These happen to also be topics where performance is critical and where you want things to be tight.
c++ has great support too but often isn't usable in communities involving researchers and juniors because it's too hard for them. Startup costs are also much higher.
Ans so you're often stuck with python.
We desperately need good math/AI support in faster languages than python but which are easier than c++. c#? Java?
In absolute terms it's one of the harshest death tolls in the last decades. It's far from a joke. Though for completeness, AIDS was also going on there and it's hard to tell from the stats the proportion of impact
Yes the current period is reminiscent of the Mao period in more than one way. You've got blind loyalty and optimism by the followers, unwillingness to listen to critism, anti-intellectualism, attempts to purge aspects of culture and dissappearing disliked people to faraway prisons.
It's not gone nearly as far as in that period, but we ought to be careful not to get closer. When information countering government policy is suppressed, the mistakes keep growing bigger until the consequences become so grave they can no longer be ignored.
There have been a bunch of very powerful non-nuclear explosions. Perhaps a part of an exploding ship such as in the halifax explosion or the Princess Irene?
By what definition? It's certainly possible that some kind of societal bell curve or other distribution can just keep getting wider without meaningful movement of the relative positions of individuals. I don't understand why you assume the most likely behavior is regression to the mean. Especially on short terms that seems weird to assume
c++ has great support too but often isn't usable in communities involving researchers and juniors because it's too hard for them. Startup costs are also much higher.
Ans so you're often stuck with python.
We desperately need good math/AI support in faster languages than python but which are easier than c++. c#? Java?