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Does it no longer make sense to major in computer programming since AI will be doing the programming before long?

There are two levels that you can look at this at.First, suppose Quora has a spam problem. I go to my AI system and say, “Solve the Spam problem we have here”. The AI might ask me a few questions, and off it goes to create a complex system to fight spam, involving databases, data pipelines, prediction, logging, escalation mechanisms, reliability mechanisms, dashboards and reports.Second, suppose Quora has a spam problem. I go to my AI system and say, “create me this database table with this sort of schema. No, actually I meant 64 bit integer.” Then I say, “pull data from the following data sources and join it in this way. Now make it run faster. Oh, you can’t, then let’s change it around in this way.”. Then I say, “train this type of model on this type of data. Now train a bunch of other types of models. Wait, that would take a month? Then let’s try this one first.”. And so on, for a hundred more steps, including debugging, going back, scrapping things and redoing them.The former type of thing is basically AI-complete. You need an AI that’s human-level in pretty much all the ways. It has to be able to extrapolate what you actually want from a very ambiguous description and know how to do a bunch of very complex interconnected tasks. This isn’t anywhere on the horizon.The latter type of thing might be achievable in 10 years, say. But if you read my description, you’ll see that what you have to do to use it is exactly the same job as a programmer does. You can call the job “AI operator” if you prefer, but you’d still need the same skills that a software engineer needs today. When it makes a mistake, you’ll need to know how to do each of the things it does by hand. When it doesn’t, it would just mean you can move faster and be more productive. What it would do for you is make easy tasks really fast, but hard tasks will remain just as hard as ever.So please don’t confuse the two scenarios. When qualified people talk about AI they mean something like Scenario 2, but lay people think it’s scenario 1.

Why did Rommel lose El Alamein? The Axis were doing so well when suddenly they lost the second battle of El Alamein in 1942.

Rommel lost because Montgomery was the better general.This was immediately demonstrated when Rommel attacked 8th Army only 15 days after Montgomery had taken over command. At that time he had nothing in terms of equipment or manpower that had been available to Auchinleck - but immediately on taking command (actually a day earlier than he was supposed to) he reversed the policy of fighting withrawal to one of stand a fight here. And he brought up troops from the Nile Delta, ammunition etc; tanks dug in to positions on Alam Halfa; orders for the tanks NOT to attack the panzers, but to repel their attacks; combined air response set up with the Desert Air Force. Result - a bloody nose for Rommel and DAK with minimal losses to 8th Army; a resulting enormous increase in its morale; no impediment to its preparations for 8th Army’s attack a month or so later.Gen O’Connor had previously won against Italian only opposition; but was sidetracked by operations in Greece and so did not throw the Italians out - leaving the way open for Hitler to send Rommel and DAK to “stiffen” the Italians. He generally had the better of engagements with 8th Army until Montgomery arrived. From then, Rommel’s DAK never won an engagement offensive or defensive against Montgomery’s 8th Army. Rommel inflicted a major defeat on 1st Army at Kasserine - which was hardly because they had inferior numbers or equipment. Rommel then switched fronts in an attempt to surprise Montgomery at Mareth, but as at Alam Halfa, 8th Army had been put in a state of impregnable defense against Rommel’s armoured attack. And this was NOT mainly because of Ultra because that could not disclose Rommel’s axis of attack - he only decided on it very late on and did not transmit that information back to Germany.Montgomery was one of the few generals in WW2 who had come up the ranks in WW1 and took into the interwar period the combined operations philosophy which eventually won WW1 for the Allies. He then worked on this throughout the interwar years and then, after Dunkirk, spent 2 years in England bringing this up to date and putting on full scale exercises which, at the time, were unique on the Allied side.If you doubt the above, read the first two volumes of Nigel Hamilton’s biography - written after the unit war diaries had been declassified and before all the older participants had died. The comments of people who were there, and experienced the difference that Montgomery made, are very illuminating.

What would have happened if Hitler had been assassinated in 1943 or 1944?

There are a couple of possible coursesCivil War leading into an early German collapse.  Historically, the possibility of this occurring prevented several Wehrmacht generals from supporting the July 20, 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler.  This would see the SS and its supporters versus the less radical elements of the Wehrmacht (which was still generally in favor of the extermination of the Slavs).  In the rapidly developing chaos that would happen in the hours after Hitler's death, random happenings would factor in heavily so it is uncertain as to what would actually happen.Negotiated surrender.  Despite the idea of unconditional surrender proposed at Casablanca in early 1943, the Allies might have been more open to a negotiated surrender if Hitler was out of the picture.  A German leadership headed by anyone who wasn't Hitler would also be more likely to make a deal.  However, the July 20 conspirators, who give a valuable window into the mind of Wehrmacht generals, also seem to have been pretty delusional in their thinking, believing that they could make peace with the Allies while Germany was collapsing and somehow turning to defeat what had become an unstoppable Red Army.  Germany fights on and dies as happened historically.  Even in 1943, Germany had no chance of winning, even with perfect leadership.  In 1943, the United States produced more than twice as many aircraft and tanks as the entire Axis combined while developing the largest experimental weapons project in history without pushing its economy near a significant level of stress.  Meanwhile, the Axis was burning out, with German production only increasing with the aid of large factory investments of the 1930's coming online and the use of massed slave labor on a scale unseen before.  This doesn't even take into account the British Empire and USSR which were roughly industrial equals to Germany and the countless other smaller Allied powers.  There was no way the Allies were being defeated short of them getting bored and just leaving.  Best case scenario, a more competent leadership takes power and is able to hold off the Allies for longer than in our history, allowing Germany to experience Special Relativity first hand.Science!

Why do some white Americans tell black Americans to get over slavery?

I’m not white, but I have some experience with this.Broadly, the reasons are at least one of (1) white racial ignorance and (2) straight racism.Regarding (1), a huge number of white Americans have no idea about the long-term consequences of not only slavery, but subsequent systems of black oppression that continue to this day. They are themselves victims of sheltering and outright propaganda. In short, they don’t have a clue.There have been tomes written about this phenomenon, but, briefly, it’s hard for people who have been told their whole lives that the US stands for freedom and democracy to grasp the fact that it’s all a lie, that they benefit from generational systems of racial oppression, and that this is by design. They don’t know about the racist origins of mass incarceration, redlining, the black-white wealth gap, the legacy and reality of police brutality and harassment, the ubiquity of prominent symbols of black oppression — a Confederate battle flag may as well be a swastika to most black people — and so on. They don’t know how private prisons have given birth to a kind of neo-slavery, locking up and destroying the lives of black and brown people, almost always without a trial, so that private prisons can profit while giving politicians a big, black boogie man (or super-predator) with which to scare people — and stripping their supposed right to vote. They certainly haven’t grappled with the generational trauma of American slavery.So, rather than deal with these facts, it’s easier to just write off black people as collective whiners and instead pat themselves on the back for all of the supposed progress we’ve made as a country, which they of course had nothing to do with. Ironically, they don’t realize that they’re recapitulating the behavior of slaveowners themselves when engaging in this kind of victim blaming.In many ways, it’s directly analogous to people who talk about “shithole” countries in, say, Central America and Haiti without realizing that the US played a large role in brutally oppressing those countries, leading to a lot of people fleeing the violence, and ultimately to today’s immigration “problem.”Regarding (2), many people are just callous and racist, and there can be a lot of reasons for this.But regardless of the reason, telling people to get over something so manifestly dehumanizing and evil which their grandparents my have experienced is a pretty shitty thing to do.

What was the scariest school lockdown you've ever been in?

Well in fact, I’ve been in a lockdown last year. Now you all might think,Meh. It’s a lockdown. That means we have an excuse to skip school and homework. Yay!Oh no we have a test next period. (studies hard) *P.A.: Students we are experiencing a lockdown. Please close ALL doors.* YAY more time for studyingYes I would’ve like that. However, it was on a very bad day to have a lockdown on. It was not a weekend. It was…THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!And please keep in mind that ALL of this is true, not made-up. It was June 9, last year. In first period (English) My teacher let us all of the hook and instead, we chill. My friends and I were very excited to go on vacation, and even I had plans to visit Miami.So you know, the next period comes (History) and the cycle repeats. Until… 6th period. (Computer) I was on the tip of my seat the whole 30 minutes, waiting for the bell to ring. Suddenly the fire alarm rang, startling us all.The P.A. announcement called out: This is a lockdown. I repeat, this is now a lockdown. Teachers, please lock all doors and don’t let anyone out. We have received word from the LAPD that there was an armed suspect snooping around the neighborhood. Students please remain calm and seated.Our first reactions were: What the hell? I got a flight at 4:00, Really police? It’s the last day of school, and you issue a lockdown?Some people were actually amusing: F*** the Police! Just let me out and and I’ll whoop that gangster’s ass for ruining our summer vacation! (No offense)It wasn’t that terrifying, only some kids were actually scared or praying to god. My teacher, Mr. Sanchez was trying to get us to play some games on the laptops, but we were all hungry because most of us don’t eat at lunch. So, Mr. Sanchez called the Main Office about the situation. They replied having said: Alright then. We’ll send some police officers to the classroom with some food/drinks.So we had food, water, and basically a career day presentation. Being done by the cop. And it was pretty chill.At last, the suspect was arrested and we all cheered. But we had to wait a whopping 3 hours just for the police to get ahold of the situation, so it was about 5:00.As our parents were close to having a heart attack, the suspect was contained in the car, we all wanted the suspect to feel guilty about our vacation so we did some things like shaking our heads, pointing the middle finger, or pointing at him.And it was a bad start to the summer vacation.

What was the best prank you ever did or heard of?

To protect the people involved and their videogame dignity, names in this answer have been changed.Two years ago, when I lived on campus with my friends, we had a FIFA tournament on the PlayStation in our dorm. We had scheduled the whole thing, with each player representing one national team, and everyone would gather in the living room to watch the games.There were these two guys among us, Tom and Billy, who were insanely good at FIFA. The board had them most likely meeting in the final for a spectacular game. Tom was a pretty sore loser, whereas Billy was more of the cheeky type.Tom, on his quarter final, was playing against Sarah, who had barely ever held a videogame controler before. Or rather, he thought he was playing Sarah. Except that Sarah’s controler was not doing anything. Player 2 was in fact Billy, a few meters to the left, with a wireless controler hidden on his lap and a heap of pillows between him and Tom.At first, Billy played like a complete beginner, letting Tom score twice in the first ten minutes to let him slip into a comfortable game. Then, he gradually increased his skill, defending more aggressively, and finally scoring.All of us, except for Tom, were in on it, and we got to see his face melt with each passing goal, barely containing our laughs. Of course, Sarah would often say things like “Hey, I’m getting quite good at this!” or “Ooh, so that’s what this button does!”, to Tom’s absolute horror and dismay, and to our absolute delight.“Sarah” ended up dealing Tom a humiliating 2 - 4 defeat, throwing him out of the tournament on the quarters. He was lost, confused, and angry. He didn’t touch FIFA for the rest of the year. Because, yes, we held telling him the truth until farewell night, six months later, at the very end of the school year. He spent all of that time thinking that either he had become thoroughly mediocre at FIFA, or that Sarah had been possessed by some mystical entity during their game.That was gold.