The H-1B lottery system isn't merit-based. Each year, there's one lottery where applicants are put into a pool, and around 85,000 people are picked randomly. Twenty thousand spots are also reserved for people with a master's degree, but even though I had a master's, the odds were still low. It felt like I was playing the slots at Las Vegas. You win a few times, but you lose most of the time, and you don't have any control over it.
The traditional buyer journey-the familiar path from awareness to consideration to decision-is disappearing. Today's buyers are moving faster, skipping steps and often making decisions after a single trusted source validates your brand. What's driving this shift? Earned media and AI-driven research tools. Public relations has always been seen as a credibility builder-a way to get your brand noticed and trusted.
Konwinski described the Laude Institute's mission as 'built by and for computer science researchers ... We exist to catalyze work that doesn't just push the field forward but guides it towards more beneficial outcomes.'
Diplomacy is a strategic board game set on a map of Europe in 1901 - a time when tensions between the continent's most powerful countries were simmering in the lead-up to World War I.
The researchers, the AI scientists in China, they're world-class. These are not Chinese AI researchers, they're world-class AI researchers.
The amount of computer science breakthroughs is really quite significant and has really opened up a lot of great research for researchers in the United States and around the world.
