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postflopclarity··on AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries 'most of the time'
if it is truly a "relatively simple data organization task a child could do" then I simply don't believe that claude/codex are not capable of it. you are probably using the tools ineffectively.
postflopclarity··on Julia 1.13 highlights
I tend to agree, and unfortunately unlike some of its other more highly-prioritized development areas, this is one deficiency that the language is making very slow (or zero) progress on
postflopclarity··on Julia 1.13 highlights
this is true of pretty much every software project in existence.
postflopclarity··on Julia 1.13 highlights
I think there's a very bright future in this regard :)

1.13 is, to-date, the release with the fastest startup times. and AOT compilation continues to be a serious priority for upcoming releases

postflopclarity··on How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language
```

>>> x = [2*53, 2*53 + 2]

>>> statistics.covariance(x, x) 4.0

>>> statistics.variance(x) 2

```

python has plenty of bugs like these too. is this example also "LLM slop" ? I think it's frankly delusional to somehow believe that these issues are unique to Julia.

postflopclarity··on How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language
I have submitted plenty of core contributions, none of which were directed or paid for by VC. the language contributions come from those sufficiently motivated to contribute. if you want to change the direction, you need to do some work.
postflopclarity··on How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language
I am not hostile to criticism.

> If anyone really believes the Python bugs are real, they should report it to Python

I have reported several bugs, both to Python and to Julia.

I'm not going to engage further in this thread, but if you want to continue discussion I'd be happy to chat somewhere else that's a little less clunky

postflopclarity··on How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language
> But most of the supposed "bugs" seem like totally fine/reasonable behaviors to me

exactly. and the same is true for many of the bugs that have been presented as indictments of Julia. but when the same is said of those, the community is called "defensive." so it's a lose-lose.

postflopclarity··on How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language
no.
postflopclarity··on How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language
in particular, https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-stability-vs-rust-fo... is a very visceral example of how bugs like these arise everywhere (including python) and are in no way unique or even exaggerated in Julia.
postflopclarity··on How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language
why do you keep making new accounts?
postflopclarity··on How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language
> It is better than your code, which is probably a low bar.

why so rude and adversarial, especially when so misinformed? AI code is better than 95% of engineers at this point.

postflopclarity··on How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language
nobody "demanded" anything. it's just the most productive way to write code these days. the same is true at the vast majority of software companies (that can afford the $$ on tokens) as well.
postflopclarity··on How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language
I don't have any financial interest in Julia so I'm a bit confused about the reference to "share holders." I'm just a user.

I'm sure there are lots of smart people who found that the language didn't suit their needs. there are also lots of smart people who love using Julia. both things can be true at the same time.

postflopclarity··on How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language
I think that article has been discussed to death and there's not much value in resurrecting it on every single post that mentions Julia. ultimately if you think the language might be a fit for your use case, I'd recommend trying it out and see how you like it first-hand.
postflopclarity··on Mojo 1.0
it's legitimately among the best languages for writing GPU kernels
postflopclarity··on [dead]
stopped listening after "they're not supplying a compelling product"

the speaker here clearly is just rage-baiting. any inability to achieve productivity gains with the products OAI and A\ produce is purely a user skill issue

postflopclarity··on Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude
claude's grammar has gotten significantly worse with latest versions. it no longer writes perfectly at all
postflopclarity··on Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs
there's always something. technology has come a long way. AI is disruptive, but so were railways, electricity, the transistor, etc...
postflopclarity··on Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs
real
postflopclarity··on Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs
> The SP500 gives 10-12%

the historical average is closer to 7%. sustained 12% would be excellent growth for any mature firm

postflopclarity··on UnifiedIR for Julia
there are already reasons given in another comment thread. the main reason is that this IR is itself written in Julia, and using multiple languages is cumbersome and annoying.
postflopclarity··on What did SFFA vs. Harvard reveal about admissions?
it's easily resolvable. the first statement is a lie: MANY students pay the full, published cost of attendance.
postflopclarity··on GPT-5.6
anybody saying they're identical clearly doesn't use both...
postflopclarity··on GPT-5.6
you have a very strange experience
postflopclarity··on Grok 4.5
https://www.wired.com/story/grok-is-still-hosting-sexualized...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/musks-grok-chatbot-faces-...

postflopclarity··on Falling fertility on the left as key driver of US birth decline
I don't know if I'd call this an "unfortunate" result or not. it's neither good nor bad, just a thing.

Arpino & Mogi are different authors that wrote a different paper that I didn't read. _This_ paper does not appear to have controlled for much at all in its primary contribution of analysis of US GSS data, and all the conclusions reached appear to me to be purely observational.

Another nuance is that since their analysis consists of filtering to people already over 40, and then asking about political leaning, there is no way to infer anything about causal association of left - vs - right ideology and fertility. For example, "having children makes you more right wing" is an equally plausible explanation for this data as "being right wing causes you to have more children" (or maybe neither of these statements are true at all, and it's caused by a variety of other confounding factors).

postflopclarity··on Falling fertility on the left as key driver of US birth decline
seems like an odd choice to so emphatically phrase this as a quality of "the left" when there are so clearly many plausible confounding factors (education, wealth, employment status, do you live in a small city apartment, etc.)
postflopclarity··on The Humbling of the Once Almighty Dollar
not sure what nuance you're looking for in between "abuses" and "children"
postflopclarity··on Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger blocked from editing Wikipedia
or I could just do something better with my time :/

so much effort all to fix what should be a clear and objective inaccuracy

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