RedCinnabar

> If a student can't say what they want to study, why they want to study it, and how they're going to pay for it

I get the first point and maybe the second one as well (although I personally had no idea why I wanted to study math right out of school) but thinking that a 18 year old should figure out how to pay for their education in their own is kinda crazy to me.

Maybe it’s a cultural difference but I think parents nowadays should be responsible to provide a little more than just childhood and early teenage years. You can’t just leave your kid on a street because he cannot justify his passion for something.

I programmed in Emacs in a myriad of different languages, I used it to write my thesis, to write my homework and later to grade them. I’ve used it to publish countless blog articles, wiki pages and technical documents.

I read that I was hired at my first job from en email received inside Emacs, I’ve used it to send countless emails to colleagues, employers and business partners. I planned both my personal and professional life inside it, I’ve used it to track the time spent doing a certain task when no such software was yet available.

Most of the time I’ve spent in front of a computer over the last 20 years, was inside Emacs. Happy Birthday, Emacs! You’re the best thing that happened in the computing world.

I’m sorry but I don’t agree with this. These models are faster and more accurate than me and their solutions are usually better than mine.

I’ve been through quite a lot of programming eras over the years (compiled, interpreted, loosely typed and finally JS/Python for everything), but this time I just can’t adapt anymore.

I’ve jumped this sinking ship nearly two years ago and while I was skeptical about it at first, I’m now more and more happy about this choice.

Very cool, do you use some kind of an atomic distro like nix or something entirely self built using Yocto/Buildroot? I do something similar with a simple SSH tunnel and a NFT rule. Though, I don’t need your kind of ephemeral setup and so I just use Debian.

I mean, wasn’t that the case for most of them? Im not a developer anymore, but to me programming was always a means to an end. Sure you can have preferences (static vs dynamic typing, functional vs OOP, etc.), but in the end they should only be relevant if they make you more productive, makes the codebase more readable and so on.

Since these nuances are progressively getting less and less important, why would you care about the process?

> Everything I don’t like is fascism.

Nobody cares about this nonsense, grow up. Also, labeling Spotify’s CEO as a fascist just because he’s involved with a company that builds drones for Ukraine is completely ridiculous. I did the same for a few years and the only people who complained were a bunch of self proclaimed “leftist pacifists” who had the brilliant idea of slashing the tires of some of my colleagues as an act of protest.

> Now it's a political project to elect the extreme-right in Europe.

You people are completely out of touch with reality. You cannot accept that the reason of why we’re voting for the “far” right is because we experienced a whole decade of uncontrolled immigration policies that permanently reshaped the way of living of previously homogeneous countries.

Bold of you to talk about arrogance…

Besides, I've never met a physicist or a (real) engineer who would go to such lengths to oversimplify the math part, even if it was only “tangential” to them.

Maybe I should’ve been more clear: what I meant is that these programmers-oriented resources are all about applications…maybe a bit too much. For instance, In this book I cannot find the algebraic structure of vector spaces, theorems about how certain linear operators such as the kernel or the image led to subspaces (which is a very important result) or a proper introduction to the spectral theorem, for both Euclidean and Hermitian spaces (which also allows you to introduce some nice functional analysis).

Why are programmers always so attracted by these interactive/over-simplified/lightweight versions of linear algebra? They all focus on the visual aspects while ignoring the real stuff (theorems, proofs, etc.).

What do you mean by that? Are you referring to Codeberg? Out the frying pan straight to the fire...

Call me back when you can run these models on 16GB of RAM and any recent i5/i7. Until then, there’s no point on using these toy models.

> I don’t think a good learning resource gets worse[...]

Probably not, but they become irrelevant. The other day I found an old programming book at my parents’ and while it was still a terrific resource, I couldn’t image anyone learning a language from a book nowadays.

AI is doing the same thing but 100 times effectively than anything else.

Blog tutorials, guides, programming books and youtube tutorials. They are completely irrelevant in a time where you have a personal tutor willing to explain every single detail of a subject.

Man these kind of resources have aged really bad in the age of AI.