| Certainly lots of things to learn still. Going point by point: It's not "he" it's "she". I don't think it's controversial that you can be much more concise with python. My experience first learning Java was that everything was 2-3x as verbose as in python. The difference is smaller if you're using type hints in python, but it's still more concise. I talked about repl's/notebooks for other languages. They're still an especially great tool for python/data science since they make it very easy to visualize data and share analyses. I played around with breakpoints in pycharm and I don't think it would work for me. You need to run your code from pycharm in debug mode for the breakpoint to trigger, whereas I always run things from the command line or a notebook. I believe you that there are times when python is slower. At least it's not noticeably slower when simply calling C behind the scenes or when you're i/o blocked anyway. Re investing, I mean, everyone has seen phenomenal returns since they were born: this century is unprecedented. Also there was the pandemic crash very recently, so everyone has experienced an extremely harsh (albeit brief) bear market too. LTCM was like 100x-leveraged, which I would not advocate for, since you'll almost certainly get wiped out if you hold that position for more than a few hours... Eh, lots of kids have add, and like 10% of college students used adderall in 2016 according to the first hit on google. In any case they've been magic for me the few times I've tried them e.g. working 12+ good hours in a day. |