yikes- I figured with poorly written AI code, the ability to automate certain types of attacks (multi-armed bandit phishing?), and the dismantling of regulatory/enforcement bodies, cyber-security would be the one field benefiting from ai/dereg boom...

I'm not looking for a job rn, but am a big regime fan, and chicago north-side cyclist/tech-person with lefty-urban planning tendencies. I'd love some regime accountant insight- any chance I can DM you?
( I have no idea the social norms of this site, so, just posting this here).

- Cyber security, seems really promising?

Data-scientist here. Would definitely not reccomend getting into the game (or paying for a masters) at this point. Market seems saturated. That said, Just reading some ML books (Raschka, Wickham) and data engineering will get you far. (Workked with some GAtech guys, great program :) ) -

"Is the oil price a barometer of China's automobile market? From a wavelet-based quantile-on-quantile regression perspective"

"Can a boost in oil prices suspend the evolution of the green transportation market? Relationships between green indices and Brent oil"

-thread based open source lit review

I may have some free time to hack on this sort of thing -
if not, here's some good literature:
"Automobile Manufacturers, Electric Vehicles and the
Price of Oil"
^ the reverse citation search on this paper turns up some good stuff

I'm super curious to read this if there's a pre-print somewhere. I'm partial to Ian Wright's "prices as attractor states" /embodied labor approach to the relation between labor time and prices- but I'm not as well versed in all this as I'd like to be.

This was the scene below the berwyn el tracks...

I think the anthropological record shows that the domestication of horses are where history took a wrong turn. Peter Turchin, or the historian who wrote "Escape from Rome" have a whole thesis about how horse nomads catalyzed hierarchical state formation.

More links
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/19546/1/iter...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisCoCat