My goal this year is to FINALLY dive headfirst into ai. Ant tips or good books?

I'm thinking of getting a laptop for both gaming and video editing. I currently am thinking of getting a laptop with either a 7th gen i5 or 8th gen i5. Is there a huge difference in performance between the two generations? Is the 8th gen i5 core worth the extra money?

My frustrations with the industry

"Hit it till it works"

For all the pentesters who use python, its just too slow ;-;

Friend : lets use github to collab
Me an intellect : Lets use pigeons

When you're a great, quick to write programming language suited for many computing tasks in general but everyone thinks you're a language for kids and a shit language because you're slow in general.