texthompson

Nobody is placing restrictions, but it's understandable if people are skeptical.

Why do you think that?

Where is this available? I checked places Austin TX, Rochester NY and Seattle WA.

I thought exactly the same thing. Statistics is about uncertainty, and it's very easy to be misled when you don't correct for trying lots of hypotheses.

That's not even medium data. Most people probably would be surprised to find out that their data could be stored and processed on an iPhone, and that using heavier duty tools isn't necessary or worthwhile.

The people capable of the automation have financial incentives to move to industries with broader appeal. There are a lot of people doing great scientific computing work in academia (e.g. Sean Eddy, Titus Brown), but they are notable exceptions.

That makes sense. I was thinking that this sounds more like a problem with corporate culture, rather than a problem with optimization. If you have a culture that doesn't value your workers, any effective optimization method will lead to outcomes like this.

Couldn't Starbucks just add another optimization term that demands a minimum amount of time off?

Advertising can add value to a company's bottom line. It's not always well-executed, but it can be useful.

Some ideas: * Listen to them, have a conversation about optimal work life balance. * Think about your habits, ask if you're working too much, too little, or just the right amount. * Ask yourself every hour that you work if you think that hour had been productive, or if you have been unproductively "working" due to exhaustion. * Consider having all of these conversations after a vacation or some other form of time off, because it's easy to be myopic when you're in the middle of working.

>> Textbooks generally do have to be updated every so often, though annual revisions are pretty ridiculous, and much of the industry is a fat scam, especially where the professor teaches from his own text.

> Whether a professor teaches from his or her text is largely irrelevant.

If a college professor writes and teaches from a book, he's requiring people to buy it. That often gives him royalties, which is a perverse incentive. I wouldn't call this a fat scam, but it's probably relevant to the idea that the textbook industry has some issues.

It might be worth distinguishing between college and public schools, where the burden of cost is on either the student or the public.