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LLM's may have provided a bit of comeuppance. Many mathematicians have cared little if anyone understands their obscure nomenclature and build mote around their work. Now they have…

Apple and Jony Ive killed skeuomorph design a long time ago.

You do realize EV’s pollute as well? Batteries are nasty.

| The gas detected in the atmosphere is helium The planet must have an enormous escape velocity to contain helium in its atmosphere. If there is life there they are stuck.

I am shipping sophisticated computer vision code that is more reliable and better tested than ever before. This isn't some vibe coded bullsh*t. This is me writing detailed mathemat…

There has been a steady decline for decades. Release early, release often. One example: Apple used to have a thing called Gold Master release when updating software was not as imme…

It will be easier than trying to learn to the new features of C++34.

I think you misunderstand -- I am still reading the article.

That is exactly what I was thinking. I was a seasoned C++ programmer and always loved reading articles like this. I can't imagine I will every write my own C++ code again -- or in …

The main iPhone app I maintain for work is 100% claude edited now ... I don't touch the code anymore ... I do occasionally look at it. It does a way better job than I could. I do h…

That is the part Claude can handle and actually does. In fact, recently claude automaticaly converted some spline generating code to double precision and did some other refactoring…

... I believe many programmers at this point have less impact they could have because they look at the code. I think my strength is now more in my ability as a mathematician and a …

I am sure it probably was - a bit heavier option. There other mobile / VR / XR apps that I had to port to a variety of platforms using languages like Swift and Kotlin -- each platf…

Here is an example. I wrote a MacOS app in Objective-C++/C++ that used Eigen's JacobiSVD solver at one point. A colleague of mine use Claude to port it into a web tool that used Ja…

Have you used Claude lately? It definitely will outperform a human at this task now.

There are cases where you don't want the footprint of bringing in another framework / library or that is not even an option.

No problem for claude. In fact I would have claude do the PR and go have lunch.

Go ahead and have claude add and run units tests for you as part of the PR review process.

I'll give you one example, an often first step to solving the Perspective N Point (PNP) problem involves using the Direct Linear Transform (DLT) method which boils down to solving …

You are doing it wrong. Have Claude generate the test code and log test data that it can feed back into itself. Claude can generate tests and verify the code better than humans now…

The SVD seems to come up everywhere in my work in computer vision. I find myself continuously using the various C++/Eigen SVD implementations. Actually I should speak in the past t…

I wish I lived in a world were you didn't have to sign contracts, lock your doors, or have X11 security. It is so fun to run xmeltdown a new user's display.

Of course not. You can melt things w thermite without being malicious. Like my friend's toolbox for instance.

Do NOT, under any circumstances, use any material in this repository maliciously. This is good-faith, open-disclosure vulnerability research intended to get more people interested …

Maybe I like my characters to be in worse situations but inspire me by overcoming them and giving hope. Dostoyevsky leaves you in a pool of gray melancholy and dispair.