You are taught this is 6th or 7th grade. The students just don't remember, or lack the ability to contextualize it in the workplace.

If someone understands trees they can understand html in one sentence.

Enemy centered mindset. You both lose, but he doesn't know you exist.

"Learning the algorithms" isn't a binary checkbox. It's a gradient of thinking and math skills, ranging up to a researcher in the field. TAOCP is the only book I know if that will give you that depth.

Learning those skills is not for everyone, but can be extremely valuable, and open a lot more doors than graduating with a class of 10,000 other CS students.

> Can you share more about this, even IMO medalists go to undergrad first.

He was an "undergrad" whose first math class was graduate real analysis.

> The other 82 percent of fossil fuel subsidies were implicit. These included tax breaks for oil firms, but also the unpaid cost of climate change and air pollution as a result of burning fossil fuels.

You gotta sell it as machine learning though :)

> After PhD there will be nobody telling, and often not even caring, what to do.

If you make the hiring cut in you’re in for about 5 years of grunt work and committees as an assistant prof, right?

By “serious research” I mean the one they do for career advancement and hiring.

> should first come to terms with the fact that it is not a rational purchase,

We’re talking about luxury tech products. It’s not rational to buy anything on that site.