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Comment · 3 months ago
I enjoy programming as a hobby and have done it for many years. I also enjoy building stuff with LLMs. Why is one pure and sanctioned and the other one is bad? Why do I need other people to decide this for me?
Comment · 3 months ago
Or it’s really just plain old gate keeping maybe.
Comment · 4 months ago
Funny this predates even the original paper first introducing the attention mechanism underpinning modern LLM.
Comment · 5 months ago
I’ve noticed this too. I think it started around the time of the first round of big tech layoffs in the US, and when the US ratcheted up the price for H1B(?) visas.

Seems like economic uncertainty or fear of it breeds xenophobia. Who knew

Comment · 9 months ago
sPHENIX uses software that we’ve worked on at CERN to do some of their reconstruction!
Comment · 10 months ago
Oh yes and so much so! Electrons are point-like (not composite like a proton) and interact only electroweakly (not strongly).
Comment · 10 months ago
There absolutely are direct neutron experiments, but they are much lower energy and have a different focus, partly because neutrons being neutral means they’re very hard to accelerate.

There’s an ultra cold neutron source at Paul Scherrer that is used to measure if the neutron has an electric dipole moment. This is complementary to high energy experiments.

Comment · 10 months ago
I get what you’re saying, but the measurements are real. In some sense they are the truth.

In the article this refers to the finding that the quark is more complex than three valence quarks.

The measurements indicating that the three-quark-model is incomplete are overwhelmingly conclusive, so some degree of certainty in the language is warranted in my view.

Comment · 10 months ago
Neutrons are just as complex, they’re much harder to study though.
Comment · 11 months ago
Didn’t they just drastically increase the price for non US citizens? I think it almost went up by 10x
Comment · 1 year ago
I appreciate the opinion, but that precludes it from being used in repos that are not jj-first and happen to use submodules.
Comment · 1 year ago
I got into jujutsu recently for the mega merge workflow.

The only thing I’m missing now is support for git submodules, especially when working with workspaces.

This requires me to keep using git worktrees with collocated jj in each of them, which is suboptimal.

Comment · 1 year ago
Is selecting text in the PDF supported? I can’t get that to work in iOS Safari.
Comment · 1 year ago
So far whenever jujutsu came up I didn’t find its features that convincing relative to git.

I have to say however that the mega merge workflow seems intriguing and might in fact be a solution to having to serialize my work like I do in git for now.

I think I’ll look into that.

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