krull10

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by krull10 8d ago
At some point from your description there will be no need for human workers at all. The real question is what happens as we continue to advance in that direction and we eliminate mathematicians, and then more broadly scientists and engineer
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by krull10 15d ago
I didn’t think to disable memory before I cancelled my plan, but I was getting blocked similarly for having a lot of biology chats (nothing close to “biosafety related”; all stuff that would be in standard textbooks or publications on bioph
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by krull10 15d ago
I’m in the US and my entire account became unusable for any type of questions with Fable because I had research questions about modeling antibody-antigen binding and abstract chemical dynamics. Nothing close to biosafety related, pure, basi
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by krull10 15d ago
Yeah, this feature is only useful to scientists who work at institutions that have deals with Anthropic to use the models without the classifiers.
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by krull10 15d ago
This isn’t true in math; see the proof of Crouzeix’s conjecture which was done by GPT 5.6 Sol in response to a prompt from a neurosurgery resident who had no deep math background, was learning that subject to better understand radiology, an
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by krull10 1mo ago
I cancelled my Claude max subscription. Somehow every query I sent was flagged as bio or chem, even pure mathematics questions. Not going to waste money paying for a “max” subscription that won’t ever let me use the top tier model… Sol is g
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by krull10 1mo ago
I cancelled my Max subscription as I was unable to ever get Fable to handle a single query, with everything getting dropped down to Opus (even purely mathematical prompts). Given its lower quality, and the lack of such limitations when usin
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by krull10 2mo ago
I actually cancelled my max plan for Claude today due to this silliness. I can’t get Fable to answer a single question, even pure mathematical questions that have no bio/chem references. It was a totally worthless addition to my accoun
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by krull10 4mo ago
Alternatively, many faculty may be simply adjusting their curves to avoid failing too many students because they are incentivized to avoid giving too many low grades. Lower grades generally result in lower course evals, which can impact rai
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by krull10 7mo ago
Their review of MacOS 26 is 79 pages when downloaded as a pdf, so they still sometimes have in depth articles. But I agree that that level of detail isn’t as common as in the past.
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by krull10 1y ago
I've nearly exclusively used Julia since 2017. I don't think this is a perverse use of such functions -- long ago I naturally guessed I could use `cumsum!` on the same input and output and it would correctly overwrite the values (
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by krull10 1y ago
The simplest approach is to always read the interface of packages one wants to use, and if one isn't provided look at the code / open an issue to interact with the developers about their input assumptions. One should also make tes
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by krull10 1y ago
Use spectral methods? But you’d presumably also have to use higher precision number types if you want that many digits.
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by krull10 1y ago
I’m all for keeping user freedom to install whatever they want, and wish it was easy to do so on my iPhone. I will point out though that if you pay for YouTube premium it has now incorporated the ability to skip in-video sponsored ads. I us
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by krull10 1y ago
Yeah, and forget about giving skeleton code to students they should fill in; using an AI can quite frequently completely ace a typical undergraduate level assignment. I actually feel bad for people teaching programming courses, as the only
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by krull10 2y ago
I’ve had that happen in notes from an editor telling me that in addition to addressing reviewer comments I should cite a whole bunch of their completely unrelated articles when submitting a revision. But I have also been a reviewer in a sit
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by krull10 2y ago
General scientific computing is pretty good across the Julia ecosystem, from optimization, to ODE and now PDE solver libraries, to various statistics and inference packages, etc. It lacks the deep NN tooling or breadth of ML libraries of Py
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by krull10 3y ago
You can always (slightly) reduce the DiffEq dependencies by adding OrdinaryDiffEq.jl instead of the meta DifferentialEquations.jl package. But lots of those dependencies arise from supporting modular functionality (changing BLAS, linear sol
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by krull10 3y ago
I think it remains to be seen how/if its reputation changes given their new approach. It will take a number of years before its impact can really be assessed.
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by krull10 3y ago
Right, and that is why the same government bodies need to cap the amount that can be paid towards open access fees or page charges via a grant. If grants only provided $200 per publication that would end the ridiculous open access fees &#x2
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by krull10 3y ago
Someone feeling the need to bash other languages is universal. For example, every Julia post here has people bashing it, in a way that is often tangential to the topic of the post. I'm actually surprised this thread doesn't have s
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by krull10 3y ago
Why drive to NYC? If one is in DC you can just take the train, especially if then shifting to a train from NYC to Montréal…
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by krull10 3y ago
As others mentioned, if you are in DC it is easy to take a train to Philly or NY and you can then catch a flight from one of the airports in those areas.
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by krull10 4y ago
Well played
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by krull10 4y ago
I don’t think the promotion and prestige incentives can be fixed easily by academics. Their promotion, earnings, ability to change universities, and recognition depend on publishing in the most prestigious journals they can. In contrast, th
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by krull10 4y ago
Grants are only in the millions in certain fields. But more than that, $10K per paper, budgeted for 2-3 papers a year in a 3-5 year grant across all the NIH grants, is a lot of taxpayer money that could be better spent funding students, pos
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by krull10 4y ago
It is not just a barrier for researchers without lots of grant funding, but also diverts public funds from funding more research and research personnel to paying significant publication fees. This really needed a complementary cap on what w
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by krull10 4y ago
This is a good thing overall, but it only half addresses the issue. Now journal fees to authors will simply go up to cover the difference, making it harder for researchers without lots of grant funding to publish (journals can now be over $
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by krull10 4y ago
It is useful in determining which packages are dominating a given package’s load times, allowing for a better understanding of where to invest effort to reduce runtimes. This has already helped in directing efforts towards a number of commo
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by krull10 4y ago
This works great for me too, and is what I use for multiple laptops. Ridiculous there isn’t something better though at this point…

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