Most state and local hiring is done with robust civil service protections, examinations, and the like. Part of the legacy of the progressive era and attempts to cut down on graft from a previous generation.

And state and local budgets aren't exactly... robust. See, for example, Maryland.

> start hiring people in state governments on fast track

I couldn't even get state and local governments to bite when I got separated from the feds, and I had:
- recognition for assisting with the Hurricane Helene response
- data scientist
- graduate degree
- was an AI fellow at the Wilson Center

Yeah, it was definitely more like this when I was in school there in the late 2000s.

My attitude watching this:

ex-girlfriend, actually

escalate to deescalate babeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Hochul, like Newsom, is a weather vane that moves with the political winds and dear G-d, we're in a fucking storm given what their recent actions have been.

The Bayesian model (with a whole 11 examples) sez what the boss wants to say if you put the prior correctly

BLS Commissioner Marco Rubio and Associate Commissioner for Survey Methods Research Steven Miller are going to Make Statistics Great Again /s

TBH both probably work in the same office

For the record, I didn't drop out of college!

I hold a master's degree in data science, did graduate work in mathematics, and am currently doing another master on technology management and artificial intelligence at Georgetown.

Hey, cult of the dropout wins in tech world I guess, and now in DC.