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New comment by chestertn in "Yale will again require standardized test scores for admission"

chestertn — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 14:37:30 +0000

Lucky

New comment by chestertn in "Google lays off Bay Area workers, closes Mtn View child care center"

chestertn — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 23:33:09 +0000

Tech senior

New comment by chestertn in "The biggest losers: Metabolic damage or constrained energy?"

chestertn — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 07:53:16 +0000

Could it be muscle loss?

New comment by chestertn in "Benjamín Labatut Will Not Be Profiled"

chestertn — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 06:52:04 +0000

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 history. This book felt like the author read a bunch of these and put them together in a book. Then the reality-fantasy aspect of it makes no sense to me.

Why did you like it?

New comment by chestertn in "Julia 1.10"

chestertn — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 21:43:17 +0000

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 you towards the SciML ecosystem and that might not be agreeable to everyone.

For instance a known Julia project that simulates diff equations seems to have implemented their own solver

https://github.com/CliMA/Oceananigans.jl

New comment by chestertn in "Julia 1.10"

chestertn — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 21:05:16 +0000

That page is a bit marketing

New comment by chestertn in "Julia 1.10"

chestertn — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 21:01:34 +0000

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 if you want to develop something more sophisticated, you want to keep your dependencies lean.

New comment by chestertn in "Julia 1.10"

chestertn — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 18:17:47 +0000

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.

New comment by chestertn in "Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble Is AI?"

chestertn — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 17:24:37 +0000

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

New comment by chestertn in "Run Mistral 7B on M1 Mac"

chestertn — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 06:08:10 +0000

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)

New comment by chestertn in "Guidance on Amortization of Research or Exp. Expenditures Under Section 174 [pdf]"

chestertn — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 04:43:09 +0000

Is this bad for research?

New comment by chestertn in "Show HN: Reliable AI-generated text detection at checkfor.ai"

chestertn — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 02:17:42 +0000

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

New comment by chestertn in "Ancient Carthaginians did sacrifice their children (2014)"

chestertn — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 16:53:19 +0000

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

New comment by chestertn in "China overtakes United States on contribution to research in Nature Index"

chestertn — Sun, 21 May 2023 00:28:27 +0000

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

New comment by chestertn in "The Art of Money Getting or Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum (1880)"

chestertn — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 05:58:49 +0000

Pretty good!

New comment by chestertn in "Aleister Crowley, the Wickedest Climber Ever? (2022)"

chestertn — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 14:28:40 +0000

Great!

New comment by chestertn in "Ask HN: What's the best free course in your area of expertise?"

chestertn — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 05:47:45 +0000

Any paid course that you recommend?

New comment by chestertn in "Ask HN: What's the best free course in your area of expertise?"

chestertn — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 23:29:39 +0000

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

New comment by chestertn in "Why I'm still using Python"

chestertn — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 23:08:45 +0000

Have you tried Julia?

New comment by chestertn in "Numba: A High Performance Python Compiler"

chestertn — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 15:49:53 +0000

I will save you the pain: switch to Julia.