This has been my experience while taking masters courses, but I assumed it was because it's important to learn about all the available tools and techniques. Has there been no research on methodologies that aid in discovering insights?

It reminds me of the difficulties in teaching someone how to prove statements in math. The basic approach is to learn as many techniques as possible (tools in your tool bag), review existing proofs, and practice. You really can't teach someone how to find the connections and insights that lead to a proof. I was once told that was the art/creativity in proofs.

I agree.

"Every few minutes, a line with the current value for S(h, t) is emitted."

Hard to believe the author didn't notice this...

Maybe just some humor for the trending classification overview?

I doubt it was done deliberately to be funny - using S for Score, h for Hashtag and t for time are about as standard as you could get.

True. I guess it's just coincidental humor for some readers.

I agree. Not sure what's new here. However, I still think the general public has no sense of how email works and possibly assumes all of their email is private?

I wonder why this isn't more common with interviews.

The question becomes, if there is a bubble, what could make it pop? Tech jobs leaving the area and not creating salaries that support existing house prices?

> Tech jobs leaving the area and not creating salaries that support existing house prices?

Sure. But other things could, too -- bubble-driven overbuilding of new housing and then having the influx of jobs stop could do it, especially if updates to shared infrastructure were deferred and the tax revenue to support them didn't materialize because the growth stopped -- the new houses would sell at lower prices because the new higher-paid workers they were made to appeal to wouldn't be there, but the total infrastructure demand would be similar, adversely affecting property desirability.

There's probably other scenarios -- and I'm not saying it is a bubble or that any particular popping scenario is likely (I don't know Austin that well), just that the fact that purchases don't seem to be mortgage-fueled doesn't mean that there isn't a bubble.

Wouldn't the counter argument be that what the renter doesn't make in equity they would make in returns via stocks?

As long as the renter is investing the money that would've been property equity in the stock market.

I'm glad you brought this up. This has tremendously improved my experience with video lectures. For online classes, I do the same as you mentioned utilizing VLCs playback feature. Youtube's addition of playback speed has also been a huge improvement in consuming more technical content.