> make them achieve more with less effort via technology

and one day replace everything with robots

This sounds extremely dangerous. How can a company integrate this many new people without bringing the rest of the organization to a standstill?

Hm, maybe. It's always been uncertain, though. I know plenty of international students when I was at MIT who weren't sure how the visa situation would play out and if they'd have to go back home or what.

I'm a little hopeful that the discussed H1-B reforms may actually help countries obtain particularly niche talents more than the outsource-lottery played now.

But I think the real threat to our tech dominance is privacy concerns. The U.S. owns the cloud with AWS, GCP, and Azure, but if other countries can't use their services due to US government overreach, then I'm sure strong competitors will pop up elsewhere.

Why doesn't silicon valley throw Mexico a bone?

I'm sure Mexico would be up to taking advantage of the new congress's policies as a means to irk Trump.

Why not contribute to the economic growth of the underachieving neighbor rather than the overachiever? People talk about sympathizing illegal immigrants from Mexico, but when they have a real opportunity to help develop the place, they kind of forget about them altogether, as if it's just an opinion to have.

Mac sales...

  Q1 2016 5312 units, revenue $6,746m
  Q4 2016 4886 units, revenue $5,739m
  Q1 2017 5374 units, revenue $7,244m

So people are buying more new Macs despite what the press, HN, Reddit crowds are saying?

it won't be long before we hearing more headlines like:

"AI beats top 10 hedge fund managers"

to

"AI run hedge fund blows up due to black swan event"

regardless it's an incredible feat. It really casts questions into what our edge as humans are which is slowly disappearing and we didn't even need to put a brain in a jar and hook it up to a computer....it's deep learning reinforced algorithms that is appearing to outlearn, outthink the best of humans.

I just can't emphasize what a monumental period in history we are at. Humans are producing specialized algorithms that learn and hold information about the deep web of relationships between myriads of parameters to produce superior performance than humans.

It's almost like we've uncovered ways to automate our intelligence very much like we've been automating human and animal labor in the past couple centuries.

So the question is, how does an average joe hacker like me exploit and leverage this wonderful thing called deep learning? I'm not interested in reading PHD papers with advanced calculus.

I want to have a map of what AI, ML, DL, NN methodologies to use and when and who to hire based on that. This is no time to be a luddite and don't count on basic income from appeasing the masses anytime soon. Much like people took the most hit in the early rise of industrial revolution, our generation and immediate generation will be hit the hardest.

Seems extraordinarily unlikely to be related to the current chaos within the US executive branch. The new Trump administration is dealing with like six or seven crises at the moment (of its own creation, no less). China knows that a little malfesance on its part won't come anywhere near TV news.

This is what people mean when they praise things like a "steady hand on the tiller". These coming years are going to be one disaster after another.