Being a (part-time) youtuber myself, can I ask what you are using for audio?

It is indeed great!

I'm not suggesting in any way a class-based education system, which are awful. I'm simply stating that if you are poor, your best bet is to pursue whatever education lands you the best possible job.

What I'm saying is that if you are poor, your best bet is to choose to pursue whatever education brings you the best possible job.

In my view, the purpose should be: - enable each individual to function independently in society.

For poor individuals, a technical education that helps land you a good job is absolutely great and is an enabling factor for many things to come.

For individuals from richer families with a wide array of opportunities (e.g., middle class in the west), no doubt a traditional liberal arts education is fantastic.

What source are you getting the channels from?

And how do you choose which channel goes in?

""" In 1970, just 1 in 5 U.S.-born PhD graduates in economics had a parent with a graduate degree. Now? Two-thirds of them do, [...] """

These numbers (1/5, 2/3) refer to US-born PhD graduates (in economics).

But the number of US-born PhD students is very small. The vast majority of PhD students are immigrants.

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The guy is obviously smart, but not doing the world a favour. It is similar to what happened to text-based sites when AdSense showed up. I expect that at some point he will be banned, but still...

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Congratulations for trying out lecturing and for the eloquent writeup.

P.S. Btw, I've stumbled upon your website https://www.recursionvisualizer.com/, which even works with memoized functions (in what seems to be a left-to-right call-by-value order), so I will be using this the next time I'm teaching dynamic programming or backtracking, in order to save time on drawing calls by hand on the board.

There are however some advantages to an academic job: somewhat more flexible schedule (not when you're teaching), relative freedom to engage in whatever research you wish, no need to sit in front of a computer screen all day, job security.

Good question!

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This site uses combinatory logic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatory_logic).

Combinatory logic is a way to express logic without using variables and quantifiers (e.g., no "x", no "forall x").

In combinatory logic, formulae are strings of combinators: (e.g., "SKK").

To help introduce readers to combinatory logic, some people think it is helpful to have analogies where a combinator (like S) is explained as a type of bird.

To my knowledge, this was first suggested by Raymond Smullyan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Mock_a_Mockingbird).