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Lucky

Tech senior

Could it be muscle loss?

I really disliked the book. Probably one of the worst books I’ve ever read. Some times HN shows well-written and researched blog pieces about events or characters in scientific his…

I think it’s also the design philosophy. JuMP and ForwardDiff are great success stories and are packages very light on dependencies. I like those. The DiffEq library seems to pull …

That page is a bit marketing

One of the things I don't like about the Julia ecosystem is the monolithic libraries that have tons of dependencies. DiffEq is one of those. I think its fine to write a script but …

Im not sure if Julia will ever take off. Right now there are huge investments in the AI space and Julia has no presence in those.

Is it? Chatgpt and variants are a great product at least. I use it every day. My wife (nontech) also does it.

I’m sure this question has been asked plenty of times but what is the best place to start with LLMs (no theory, just installing them locally, fine tuning them, etc)

Is this bad for research?

I pasted paragraphs from old academic papers (90s) and gave me 97-100% AI generated. Have you even tested this?

That part about Gibson doing a documentary is not true. Just Google it.

Publishing is a social activity. And, today, a bad metric to measure research success. It has been hijacked by careerists and mafiosi.

Pretty good!

Great!

Any paid course that you recommend?

Stephen Boyd’s course on Convex Optimization https://see.stanford.edu/Course/EE364A

Have you tried Julia?

I will save you the pain: switch to Julia.

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Hi again :). We both have an axe to grind. I was just giving some support to the parent comment about the scale of sacrifices compared with the Spanish inquisition. Even if the num…

According to Wikipedia. Spanish Inquisition executed between 3000 and 5000 people over 3 centuries: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition According to this article. “…