Posts
All the articles I've posted.
Of LLMs and other demons
LLMs are fantastic beasts, but hyperbole and acrobatic mental leaps have become the norm when people talk about them. My goal in this thinking out loud is to pose and try to answer some questions that will hopefully help me have more grounded discussions. These questions range from What are there useful for? to Are they good learning companions? to Are they going to kill us?
Death, taxes and optimization
Modelling Rushhour 🚗 🚚 as an optimization problem.
Who is up for a programming challenge?
Updated:Is anyone still doing good, old-fashioned programming? Or is everyone prompting and trying to tame LLMs (and asking themselves why)? Here's a small programming challenge, a brain teaser and a balm for the soul.
Die Mutter aller neuen Resultate in der analytischen Mechanik
Updated:Stationary action principles form the foundation of modern physics, spanning classical mechanics to quantum field theory and general relativity. The history of the principle of least action is fascinating, involving beautiful mathematics, as well as profound philosophical and scientific debates.