I worked on this about a decade ago, but just updated it in order to learn to use Gradio and HF as a platform. Enjoy!
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thearn4 commented on OpenAI Codex hands-on review zackproser.com/blog/opena... · Posted by u/fragmede
How much faster is this than simply writing the code yourself?
I end up asking the same question when experimenting with tools like Cursor. When it can one-shot a small feature, it works like magic. When it struggles, and the context gets poisoned and I have to roll back commits and retry part of the way through something, it hits a point where it was probably easier for me to just write it. Or maybe template it and have it finish it. Or vice versa. I guess the point being that best practices have yet to truly be established, but totally hands-off uses have not worked well for me so far.
thearn4 commented on AI in my plasma physics research didn’t go the way I expected understandingai.org/p/i-g... · Posted by u/qianli_cs
> After a few weeks of failure, I messaged a friend at a different university, who told me that he too had tried using PINNs, but hadn’t been able to get good results.
not really related to AI but this reflects a lesson I learned too late during some research in college: constant collaboration is important because it helps you avoid retreading over areas where others have already failed
Another reason why the idea of AI agents for science hasn't made much sense to me. Research is an extremely collaborative set of activities. How good would a researcher be who is very good at literature review, but never actually talks to anyone, goes to any conferences, etc?
Voynich is one of my favorite unsolved puzzles. This approach looks fascinating, so thanks for sharing your work here!
thearn4 commented on Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education washingtonpost.com/educat... · Posted by u/cs702
I was home-schooled until high school. Long story short, it was a disaster. I bordered on having no education at all, on top of no socialization. I'm so fortunate I got at least four years of public school. I still think I suffer to this day. For parents who are thinking of home schooling your kids: best of luck to you. If you succeed, maybe your kids will be smarter. If you fail, you could be setting your kids up for a lifetime of stunted socialization skills and poor work habits.
You and I have matching stories, unfortunately. I've made a point of sending my sons to public school for this reason. Now, of course this also means that I shopped for a district that aligned with my expectations. But would never want a repeat of my own experience.
I think being accountable for your work to a person who isn't in your family is actually an important thing to learn. It also turns out, parents aren't really qualified to be teachers just because they believe that they are.
Each time I talk about any problem with our signal theory expert he says: "we could use a Kalman filter" (in jest). That's like saying "hey we could use a matrix".
In my area, every controls engineer says "we can just use a PID".
99% of the time it seems they're not wrong, despite control engineering being a pretty large area of research.
It’s funny and occasionally scary
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