The way that most physicists teach and talk about partial differential equations is horrible, and has surprisingly big costs for the typical understanding of the foundations of the field even among professionals. The chief victims are students of thermodynamics…

Comedian Jon Stewart said that Apple Inc. told him not to interview antitrust enforcer Lina Khan when he was still working for the iPhone maker, which now faces a suit from the Department of Justice.

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Open source AI coding agent. Designed for large projects and real world tasks. - plandex-ai/plandex

Jean Twenge responds to the Nature review of The Anxious Generation

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Build applications that make decisions (chatbots, agents, simulations, etc...). Monitor, trace, persist, and execute on your own infrastructure. - apache/burr

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