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Julia is fantastic if you do numerical work and want to write out your inner loops explicitly without sacrificing too much performance, either for pedagogical reasons or because you want to fiddle with the algorithm.

It is a lot of fun to start from an empty file, add maybe an import LinearAlgebra, and develop things like a convolutional neural network or a Markov-chain Monte Carlo algorithm completely from scratch. And then it is very rewarding to have such a program be fast enough (looking at Python here) to train on the MNIST dataset or find reasonable estimates for critical exponents.

I am not sure there are languages better suited than Julia for these kind of things.

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Comment · 9 months ago
> I really miss Google Inbox

I very much agree. Also really miss the ability to quickly group related emails.

(And no, that was not the same as adding a label; for one, the whole group simply appeared as one "bigger" email in the Inbox. It was a bit like a thread that you can manually add emails to.)

When everybody got kicked out of Inbox I happened to have a group of about ten emails related to an upcoming trip. Those ten emails got de-grouped and scattered all around in the ordinary gmail interface. I would have appreciated a smoother transition...

Comment · 9 months ago
The article is just generally sloppy.

> .. my recent trip from Abu Dhabi to LA. 24 hours door-to-door. We have the technology to reduce that to under 10.

The direct flight (by Emirates) takes 16h15 mins, so that leaves 7h45 mins not in flight. If we want to bring that down to 10 hours just by making the flight supersonic then that would require a flight time of 2h15, corresponding to a (ridiculous) speed well over Mach 4.

Comment · 9 months ago
good train > plane > bad train
Comment · 10 months ago
> Factoring becoming a reasonable benchmark is strongly related to quantum computing becoming useful.

Either this relation is not that strong, or factoring should "imminently" become a reasonable benchmark, or useful quantum computing cannot be "imminent". So which one is it?

I think you are the author of the blogpost I linked to? Did I maybe interpret it too negatively, and was it not meant to suggest that the second option is still quite some time away?

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Comment · 10 months ago
> what is this new style of writing

Congratulation, you are now able to recognize an AI-generated text.

(As of December 2025 at least, who knows what they will look like next month.)

Comment · 10 months ago
Since May 2024 he isn't actively trying anything at all.

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