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GLM-5.3 flash says hmm hmm hmm
I suppose my Zcodium session got too long (starting a new thread helped): Seems to be a known problem.
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Social media connect requests from students
As a rule, I don’t include students – PhD or other, working with me or not – on my social media network. Sorry – it’s nothing personal. I fear this can escalate to students racing to make themselves look fancy by knowing this or that person. At that stage, shine through your excellent work and…
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AI accountability – what if that was a student
Some people propose that agents can perform tasks that students have done. Besides this being an obviously bad idea to not train students, discussed elsewhere I want to focus here on accountability. If a student makes a mistake, that’s fine. If a student claims they have done work they have not actually done, that’s a…
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Meeting busy people
I wrote before about courtesy for emailing people. Some matters which lack clarity are best discussed in person. When meeting someone in a higher position then myself, here are some considerations I usually take. These follow the following general guideline: Put as little work and uncertainty as possible onto the senior person. I have to…
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Asking for help via email
Here is how to ask busy people effectively. Include the following in your email: In short, make it easy to respond. I also favor communication over Github issues for my projects, so others can find the questions and answers. Some additional resources to read:
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The impact of cosmology on distances
Cosmology – do we need it? 😉 Large community resources are spent to precisely measure the geometry of the Universe, and detect deviation from w=-1 etc. These astronomy measurements can give hints of the behaviour of dark energy and dark matter, but not on what it is. Closer to most extragalactic astronomy, what is the…
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Information Field Theory
Prompt to Claude Sonnet 4.6: “Critically examine NIFTY and the “information field theory” framework of Enßlin. Is it essentially Gaussian processes as parent distributions of relatively simple hierarchical Bayesian models, and the major difference to standard methods is MGVI/geoVI being a higher order VI method, or are there important other contributions other than rebranding.” What…
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Replace “using AI” with “using interpolation”
(2nd try after HN feedback) When cloud computing was a new, cool buzzword thrown around that no one understood, a shortcut was suggested whether it is the right solution: In any sentence, replace “in the cloud” with “on another person’s computer”. “Computing on the cloud” becomes “computing on another person’s computer”.“I backup my data to…
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Perfectionism and Dilettantism
Finishing projects is an art. You need to balance pragmatism of getting things done with the bar on quality you set for yourself. Many people I know are perfectionists, and have a high standard for themselves. This often comes from parents saying something like “why did you not get the highest grade?”, and class mates…
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IQ is for stupid people
In 2017, I took an Uber in Boston to the airport. The driver was a young Russian. We talked about our backgrounds, and he mentioned “oh, you must be very smart to be a scientist”. Then he brought up that there might be a few extremely smart people, in the world, like with an IQ…