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Recently, there was a long autobiographic thread on twitter about a young US woman who could not make it into an adequante job in the gaming industry, simply because she is a woman. For women, it seems to be very hard to find a job generally, with few exceptions. For example, plenty of Nanny jobs seem to be available in Japan.

I'm from Europe, and I like the Paul Graham Essay from 2006, http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html , where he claims there are 3 necessary conditions to build a startup ecosystem in any city or region:

1. A large city or metropolitan area with high quality of life according to nerds and their preferences

2. excellent universities or career opportunities, so young gifted people are motivated to move there from 1000s of miles away

3. Capital availability (Venture capital, private equity, unspent cash looking for investment)

Most European Cities fail to provide all 3, and even then these conditions are not sufficient to build a successful hightech startup.

I don't think Juncker has ever used such cards anytime when me works in Brussels or elsewhere in Europe.

Almost always there will be less opportunities of that niche in the future; and it is probably difficult to get promoted (or build a career) on the basis of a technology that will be replaced in the long run.

Maybe if you have software project management skills (complex migrations from legacy tech X to modern Y), these might be transferable skills.

I have re-created a CGI Script that we have programmed years ago, when some Russian geologists were visiting our institute.

This visualises a generalised lithological log: That means, some of the rocks recovered from the hole, and their thicknesses.

https://data.icdp-online.org/sites/kola/tpl/litholog_sel.htm

Let's seee if I manage to make the script more interactive.

This twitter user Massimo/Rainmaker1973 is constantly posting interesting content he finds on the internet, 7 days a week. Sometimes I wonder if it is actually not a single person but a small team of enthusiasts, scientists, experts and internet addicts.

Using ideas contained in this script you can execute tidyverse commands with R on the command line:

https://github.com/jeroenjanssens/data-science-at-the-comman...

I was not able to commit its options to long term memory, so I've built a bash script that contains a pipe of commands, including Rio.

"Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling" Course.

https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/76-introduction-t...

It is an introduction to NetLogo (a free simulation software and a Programming Language), but in hindsight I think the couse and the book teach some useful concepts.

What about pregnancy-related diabetes? Some textbooks have it as a 3rd independent type of diabetes.

maybe it's also

- microbiome activities

- epigenetics

- what you eat at a young age

In the German Wikipedia there is a photograph of the lecture timetable, University of Berlin, 1928.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Ne...

Von Neumann's scheduled his lectures as follows

- Wed and Sunday (!) 9-11 am; - Friday 3.30-5pm - Tue 7-9pm (Invited Talks / Faculty Seminar) - Mon 4-5 pm

I think that was uncommon even in the old days.

Here is an omegataupodcast episode about flying this thing:

http://omegataupodcast.net/91-flying-the-sr-71/

Episode 091 – Flying the SR-71 Blackbird (March 31, 2012, 7:27 PM)

"In this episode we discuss the world's fastest and highest flying jet-powered aircraft ever built, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. Our guest is Col. (Ret) Richard Graham, a former SR-71 pilot. Our conversation is loosely based on his book Flying the SR-71, and we discuss the challenge of flying the SR-71. As a consequence of its unique capabilities and its engine and inlet design, the aircraft posed a number of very specific challenges on the pilot."

If it's a startup, I'd think twice. There's no guarantee that you'll be happy at the new company, especially if it is not profitable.

Bureaucratic stuff can take time in Germany. Learning the language can challenging. The language schools have very different quality of teaching.

London has a much larger population of immigrants from the Middle East. So if your prospective employer in Berlin had a London office, or business ties to the UK, that would be a plus.

Is it OK to be a Luddite - by Thomas Pynchon

5-10 page long essay about "technology scepticism", from 1984 . A perspective on digitization of society, then and now.

Books by/about landscape-photographer Edward Burtynsky https://www.google.com/search?name=f&hl=en&q=burtynsky+book

Photos of landscapes overused by humanity, e.g. quarries, dried-up land, oil fields, etc

Your question was asked many times on Quora, and ML celebrity-scientist Andrew Ng himself contributed some answers.

See all of his answers here: https://www.quora.com/profile/Andrew-Ng

I like this one of his answers: for people with intermediate skills, read an ML paper and try to reproduce it, or use it with different/your own datasets. This is completely underrated.

I for one want to do this more.

Make an intense effort to learn a foreign language, say for one year or so. Makes it easier later in life to start again, or to learn a third one if you must.

I'm GenX, but for my generation and Millenials I'd add "Fine China ownership", "Opera visits", "Stamp Collections", and a few others to the list. With "Matchbox Car Collections", I'm not sure if this is still a millenial thing.

In East Germany before the unification, lifestyles were more traditional. Moreover, there were incentives to start a family early in life. Perhaps most importantly, young families would get priority treatment when applying for newly-built apartments. Therefore people got married in their early 20s, and moved into their new flat, away from parents, as soon as possible, and had the sex life young married couples normally have.

I'm German. I think this idea "Get a degree in Germany" is not impossible, but it would be quite risky for Americans. There are just too many unknowns or uncontrollable factors.

Many subjects, say Biology, are actually difficult to get in, even for Germans. Not having the language skills would mean you're in for bad grades from the very beginning.

It'll work only for a few majors, and only with a considerable effort, ideally before enrolling, to obtain relevant information (about costs and specifics) concerning the admission procedure and moving to Germany (or some other European country where college tuition is low, say Austria)

My gut feeling is that women prefer jobs where one must communicate more. Many tech professionals are required to spend their workdays lonely in front of the computer. This is a very unattractive concept to most women. This may be a biased view, yes, but that's just how they perceive it.

I think Hackathons, however small, provide useful feedback for estimating your "fluency" in a specific technology. Self-assessment gets a reality check.

Maybe its the other way around: State governments cut universities' budgets, so universities look for other revenue opportunities.

Only the first 10 book chapters are linked to on this page (http://statweb.stanford.edu/~owen/mc/), why is that? The Table of Contents lists 17 chapters.