micheles

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by micheles 1mo ago
I don't consider the browser a tool.
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by micheles 1mo ago
I am unable use non-CLI tools, so I don't care about this app. However, I have a question about codex CLI: currently I am using pi agent and I am happy with it, using codex CLI would give me some advantage?
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by micheles 3mo ago
I am in the top 3% but I don't know if that means a lot or not much :-/
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by micheles 5mo ago
I have always maintained that real mathematics starts when you address the infinite. I don't see how you can get anything interesting (like analysis, differential geometry, topology) without the assumption that the infinite exists. BTW
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by micheles 5mo ago
> uutils now runs the upstream GNU coreutils test suite against itself in CI. That’s the right scale of defense for this class of bug. That's the minimum, it is absurd that they did not start from that!
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by micheles 6mo ago
The article is badly written. This has nothing to do with fractals, they are talking about the assumption that there is an UV fixed point for all physical laws, which can even be true and personally like. It means there are no ultraviolet d
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by micheles 7mo ago
As a former Theoretical Physicist, this result is remarkable. I myself I tried to use AI for calculations in Perturbative Quantum Field Theory and I was impressed. I agree with the authors: it looks like the future of Theoretical Physics wo
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by micheles 9mo ago
My barber is 75+ and he says that he has no intention of ever retiring, until he is forced to by health reasons.
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by micheles 10mo ago
I like far-future concept-driven science fiction, is there something for me too?
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by micheles 1y ago
I am old. The time of the old Internet corresponds to my Ph.D. years, so I was very much an adult. I still miss it ;-)
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by micheles 2y ago
Nowadays I am on the other part of the fence, I am the interviewer. We are not a FAANG, so we just use a SANE interview process. Single interview, we ask the candidate about his CV and what his expectations are, what are his competences and
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by micheles 2y ago
Finally somebody making sense in this thread!
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by micheles 2y ago
I am scientific Python programmer. 99% to 100% of my programs require parallelism, but it is ALWAYS embarrassingly trivial parallelism, nothing is ever mutated and I never need locks. Right now I am forced to use multiprocessing to get the
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by micheles 2y ago
I remember when I took my course of "Theoretical Physics" (so called, it was an Introduction to Quantum Field Theory in actuality) and I realized that particles do not exist. It was quite an enlightenment. Particles are a convenie
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by micheles 3y ago
I was in your situation 20 years ago, as a postdoc in Theoretical Physics. My advice is to contribute to some known Open Source project, so that you have some provable programming skills when entering the job market. In my case I contribute
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by micheles 3y ago
This is good advice and my own software is following it: $ oq info cfg Looking at the following paths (the last wins) /opt/openquake/oq-engine/openquake/engine/openquake.cfg /opt/openquake/venv&#
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by micheles 3y ago
Pity that I never met antirez in all this time. I first heard of him from David Welton who was a coworker of mine in 2004, well before the existence of Redis. But hope is not lost. For the moment, I think I will buy his book ;-)
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by micheles 3y ago
>In my experience teaching programming, we spend very little time helping students actually write code. >Instead, the mentors mainly deal with problems of tooling – “it says ‘EADDRINUSE’ and crashes”; “git is giving an error”; “npm ju
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by micheles 4y ago
I use numba a lot nowadays. Works perfectly well on all platforms (linux, windows, mac, even the M1) and gives speedups as expected (few percent for already well vectorized numpy code, and extra-large speedups for loopy code). I strongly re
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by micheles 4y ago
Having been on both sides of the peer review process in my field (Theoretical Physics), I say we should completely abolish it. Just publish the papers on the preprint archives. Some will be bad, some will be good, and you will know the impa
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by micheles 4y ago
Speaking as a physicist, I have always hated this nomenclature. There is no vacuum at all. The universe is filled with quantum fields, they are the source of the Casimir effect. Terms as "vacuum energy" are simply a bad naming, th
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by micheles 4y ago
I work as a research engineer in Italy. My path was academia (Physics)->industry (Finance)->mix. The "mix" where I am now is a strange case: it is located inside an university, nearly everybody has a PhD and we also have PhD
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by micheles 5y ago
This is quite interesting. As a theorist, I have 100% confidence in inflation. The problem of inflation is that there are too many variations on the idea, if we can begin to throw away at least some classes of models it is a big progress. B
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by micheles 6y ago
It is more or less the same in Italy and in most European countries, it is not only Germany.
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by micheles 6y ago
Actually this is classical general relativity, the math is not particularly advanced. When I was doing Theoretical Physics I would have considered this paper "easy", at least relative to most papers on hep-th.I never believed in M
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by micheles 7y ago
I know Christoff Wetterich! From the time of my Ph.D. when we were working the Renormalization Group. I met him a few times, we were working on similar things but in different groups, we were "competitors" if you wish. Funny to se
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by micheles 7y ago
I left academia in 2003, after 3 postdocs in Theoretical Physics (Quantum Field Theory, Thermal Field Theory, some Cosmology). The reason was certainly not the money, rather job security, it is kind of stressful to change continent every tw
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by micheles 17y ago
It worries me when people attach too much Physics to Feynman diagrams. Feynman diagrams arise when you try to compute perturbatively the correlation functions in a field theory. They appears both in quantum field theory and in statistical
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by micheles 17y ago
I am a Python programmer. I have toyed with functional languages (Scheme, SML) for many years. Over the time my code is becoming more and more functional, in every language I code in. Nevertheless, I do not plan to quit Python at all. Reada
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by micheles 17y ago
You can find a version of tailcall in the Python cookbook or here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/decorator#dealing-with-third-par...

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