anitil

These days I wouldn't be surprised if the models are smart enough to get the analysis correct.

However sometimes I think that AI use shows a revealed preference around things. In this case, the actual data just ... maybe never mattered to them at all? People wanted a shiny chart and they got a shiny chart.

This has been something I've experimented with my own baby langs, even banning precedence altogether and requiring explicit parens in any expression.

I find it annoying to have to remember precedence, even if it does lead to more concise code. I guess there's some elegance in something like `if (a == b = c + d << e & f)` but having to remember what this means overrides any benefit for me. And if you get it wrong you'll end up adding the parens anyway.

I haven't played with this version which seems like a reasonable compromise, but I always enjoy reading zig updates and how they really think through things that other languages assume away

Sorry I didn't mean it to be cynical, it just came to mind

I actually remember that in an old interview (that I can't find sorry) Grant Sanderson said he moved in to YouTube because he thought it was a more promising career than being mathematician, it's interesting to see his opinion change.

It's interesting as the appeal seems to be that he's narrowly targeted the training of his models at this specific industry, including side-stepping the rights issue by training on their own footage. It's a cool approach

I read your 'Leaving Tech' blog and it made me sad because it reflects a lot of what I'm feeling. Luckily I'm still employed, though it feels fairly tenuous at the moment

I thought it was clever!

I was about to say that - it's really a mess

Even putting aside the ugliness of errno, this is pretty bad. I'm at the point with libc where I try to use as little of it as I can, though I'm not writing a lot of C these days

That's very fair. I enjoyed undergrad maths because it kind of blew my mind but I never considered pursuing graduate studies

That may be true, but mathematicians still need to eat, and for the they'll need jobs. 'Will there be more or less demand for mathematicians in the future?' and 'What will the work entail?' I think are valid concerns

I believe it's lying with extra steps

I think he took some time off to write up some academic contributions that he discovered as a result of working on the mechanism