"these tokens often compete against each other for available spots in expert buffers. "
So is this also why ChatGPT is often just writing placeholders in place of functions when I ask him for some long code?
When I talk about these paths, I mostly mean prepas and grande écoles, but that doesn't mean I recommend them.
Yeah you're set for life if you succeed there, but the student suicide rate in those schools is also astonishingly high because of the pressure/competition.
If I were you, I'd just teach my kids to code, learn, build stuff, sell stuff, and use AI correctly. IMO school is an outdated concept, in any country.
The US are a younger country and it's full of immigrants/children of immigrants.
Most of the money here is old money. There are dozens of implicit rules. In France having a teacher as a parent is a better indicator of whether you'll get into a top school than being rich. Because you have to know all the tricks in the book to get anywhere. From my POV getting into Ivy League seems as simple as getting a high SAT, applying, getting approved for a loan. In France, most immigrants kids don't even know the possible paths to get into a top school.
Also yes, salary plays a big role, if you're part of the top 1% of your country intellectual elite, I'd bet you'd rather cross an ocean for 6 figures than for 2000 euros a month and free healthcare.
compilers are usually optimizing these kind of statements so they end up similar or identical
if you wanna be sure, make two loops running a few million times with random if else / switches and time them