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Location: Seoul Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Tech: LLM, python, ML, research CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhanibek-omarov/ Email: zhanibek [dot] om @ gmail Summary: I'm a physics PhD doing ML research and engineering. Can adapt and learn fast.

isentrop1con GPU Programming: When, Why and How?

GPU is one part where modern design of Julia truly shines as it allows seamless reusability and composability. I wish the language gets the proper recognition and adoption

isentrop1con Build vs. Buy

This is nice parallel with soft engineering staff. I often find that whoever does lotsa tinkering (building) can better which tool to use and why. Linux tinkering being it window managers, bash scripts might sound like a waste of time to the most, but it offers intangible experience of knowing what software/stacks to choose and why. That is, such tinkering experience gives you 'intuition' about today's vast array of tools

isentrop1con Bayesian statistics and machine learning: How do they differ?

Scikitlearn has a bunch of machine learning routines including knn, xdg, decision trees and so one. There is even a model zoo there. Id say bayesian mixed gaussian models to be in the same class of algorithms. Bayesian models have its own peculiarities and statistical foundation, but it isn't far fetched to imagine it inside scikitlearn and to be considered a machine learning routine.

isentrop1con Velocity defeats itself – get acceleration instead

The analogy with physics and basically differential equations brings in familiar concepts from the "spherical cow in vacuum" world. If we wanna go technical, then acceleration too does not matter, cause jerk (acceleration of acceleration) matters even more. We could keep going deeper and deeper into derivatives at no gain. You can introduce mass, air resistance and whatever you want, but at the end of the day this is all just an analogy. Getting into technicalities of jargon has no practical benefit.

When people say "velocity" they actually refer to all the "derivatives". Just like when I say my car faster, well it is both faster and accelerates faster and all of those things. A Tesla is faster than a normal bicycle. Faster and "velocity" have mental association and that's all it matters. Changing a the term from "velocity" to "acceleration" and whatnot just changes the label, not practical meaning and what people want to convey.