I wonder how much the focus on Python biased that study... Still, maybe we've been wrong at so much emphasis on math skills for computer science and computer engineering curricula.

Nice and down to earth tips for your technical talk to go well.

Interesting trick in Java internals which is especially improving map lookups.

This is an important position paper in my opinion. The whole obsession towards the ill defined "AGI" is shadowing important problems in the research field which have to be overcome.