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It would be interesting to see you write about the labor force participation stats over the last fifty years or so. Why so low before the 90's? Is this entirely a women-in-the-workforce story or is there more to it than that? How did it get so high in the 90's? Why the decline post GFC? Is this trend expected to reverse or continue?
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Don't think I've commented since the switch over to Substack, but I just wanted to say how much I love your newsletter, and that I'm glad that it's continuing even if it is as a solo project now.
After reading a lot into ChatGPT and thinking back to other machine learning projects like autonomous taxis, it seems like modern machine learning tools have really gotten to a point where the only viable way to stay competitive is to have a gigantic data center on par with AWS or Azure. Do you think there is any hope for more localized machine learning software, or do you think it will all be consolidated to cloud services for the foreseeable future?