top-flight

You're a top-flight developer making $140k with a well-formed specialty (let's say that it's machine learning in Haskell).

In top-flight soccer, players adjust their sleep and training schedule so their body peak at afternoon matches in the weekend.

Thus, Google ends up with some top-flight C++ engineers whom I couldn't possibly compete with, but...

The oft-stated reasoning is that a top-flight college that allows even 10% of its students to leave without a degree in 5-years is failing them somehow.

Fine, maybe for cancer research you can ultimately prove who is right but its not realistic in most cases given the resource constraints of even top-flight labs.

Try getting a job at a top-flight SV company without a degree, or even with a degree that wasn't from an Ivy League school...you'll find it nearly impossible.

Longer term I fear that without a significant software industry, Australia will find it difficult to develop new talent and keep experienced top-flight developers from seeking greener pastures overseas.

So I argue the opposite, for preparing for top-flight tournaments, players probably avoid / severely limit playing against chess engines, to avoid this natural anti-computer bias to their play.

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There's nothing wrong with being a top-flight employee and helping build something big, but by the time a company has reached a size where two pizzas aren't enough to make everybody full the company has started to settle, the culture is beginning to congeal and the BIG decisions have been made.

It's probably also true to say that the Ivies and other top-flight, especially Eastern, liberal arts schools were historically more concerned with admitting "the right sort of people" than the most studious.

When I tried to tell Lee Kuan Yew, “Look, your son is phenomenally good: you should encourage him to do mathematics,” then he implied that that was impossible, since as a top-flight professional mathematician Loong would leave Singapore for Princeton, Harvard or Cambridge, and that would send the wrong signal to the people in Singapore.