17/11/2024 16:28 The meaning of “AI”: “This ridiculous situation could’ve been avoided if we had settled on a more accurate buzzword like ‘applied statistics’ instead of ‘AI’.” This analysis by Jeremy Keith really hits the nail on the head efficiently. I’ve been (annoyingly, I’m sure) refusing to let people talk to me about “AI”, because the language models that they’re referring to do not exhibit intelligence.
10/11/2024 11:17 My Gym Code of Conduct: I don’t even go to a gym these days, partly because I prefer not face the horrors listed in this article. “At one end, you have the animals that leave piles of sweat on the equipment. At the other end, you have those who wipe everything down with antibacterial wipes as if they had committed a crime and need to remove DNA evidence.”
03/11/2024 09:34 2D Vortex Dynamics: Evolution of a vortex system in two dimensions. An interactive webpage using Julia.
1/11/2024 12:30 The Kindergarten Intifada: “a well-coordinated, national effort between teachers, activist organizations, and administrators to indoctrinate American children against Israel.”
10/10/2024 11:38 Julia 1.11 Highlights: The new release contains some significant developments and enhancements.
24/9/2024 14:18 A short review on Noether’s theorems, gauge symmetries and boundary terms: This widely-cited paper came out in 2016 but I just found out about it (too late to mention it in
the book): “This review is dedicated to some modern applications of the remarkable paper written in 1918 by E. Noether. [I]n a single paper, Noether discovered the crucial relation between symmetries and conserved charges as well as the impact of gauge symmetries on the equations of motion. Almost a century has gone since the publication of this work and its applications have permeated modern physics. Our focus will be on some examples that have appeared recently in the literature. This review is aim[ed] at students, not researchers.” Also at https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.03616.
