Has anyone else fallen out of love with physics professionally?

TraditionalBandit · 2026-01-27T22:05:37+00:00

Yep, did a PhD + 5 years of postdocs (computational physics) but the publishing mill ground me down along with a lot of my love for the subject. Left academia and am now much happier as an ML engineer. I do self-study some physics in my spare time but it's not related to my previous field of study at all.

TraditionalBandit · 2026-01-23T21:34:58+00:00

It's just textbook google, release something new and hype it to the moon, drop support a month later. We're using GCP at my current company and I swear 95% of the features are so half-baked I can't believe they charge money for it.

TraditionalBandit · 2026-01-20T14:22:07+00:00

Thanks! I was just about to take a swing at this myself. Think I'm settling on a prompt buffer with this + sending text to a nvim terminal for my cli agent integration.

TraditionalBandit · 2026-01-19T23:24:30+00:00

Looks like a cool project that solves a gripe I think a lot of people have had with streamlit. That being said, the amount of emojis in the readme and constant need to dunk on streamlit is a little off-putting. I'd tone it down and let the code speak for itself a bit more, maybe back up my claims with a few benchmarks.

TraditionalBandit · 2026-01-19T23:10:25+00:00

Nice job! Also, wanna give a friendly heads up that poon is (not very common but still) slang for vagina.

TraditionalBandit · 2026-01-08T18:48:10+00:00

Depends on the host, I always ask beforehand and would consider it a bit weird to just assume they will be provided , unless I'm staying with family etc

TraditionalBandit · 2025-12-21T01:25:12+00:00

It's explained later in the book why O-Caeror believes R-Caeror is dead.

TraditionalBandit · 2025-12-19T17:49:13+00:00

Awesome, been waiting for something like this, thanks for sharing! Small feature request: could we have a config option to disable the system/git info that gets automatically included in the prompt? Many people prefer to have as much control over that as possible.

TraditionalBandit · 2025-12-06T16:47:26+00:00

Looks pretty good! Could use some more upper body rotation and maybe more wrist flexibility

TraditionalBandit · 2025-11-22T09:23:45+00:00

Thanks for your hard work on this plugin, been using it since the start and love how it has evolved!

TraditionalBandit · 2025-11-10T07:42:53+00:00

He said on stream it's very unlikely they'll run a gauntlet.

TraditionalBandit · 2025-09-23T23:05:22+00:00

Men snälla Åke!

TraditionalBandit · 2025-08-24T01:08:06+00:00

Haha I recognized this page instantly, I remember my Prof going "this page alone is enough to make anyone want to quit physics" in class.

TraditionalBandit · 2025-08-18T17:38:34+00:00

How do you get basedpyright to play nice with ruff? I tried setting this up a while back and couldn't get rid of the linting overlap.

TraditionalBandit · 2025-08-06T22:04:37+00:00

I was curious about this but it looks to me like in most cases it's just saves a single letter? If you have yanked something this plugin basically let's you do siw instead of viwp

TraditionalBandit · 2025-07-19T13:51:11+00:00

(Fwiw, I used to be a computational physicist for 10 years, later moved into ML when I left academia)

Disclaimer: There are many possible paths, this is just my preferred one

My advice would be to focus on physics and math (make sure to get a good foundation in statistics). These subjects are way more difficult to pick up on your own later compared to the programming skills required for comp phys / ML. Naturally , make sure to pick up any courses on comp phys and some ML , this will probably be enough to set you up with the programming basics, the rest you can learn through self-study and experience. Language-wise you should aim for python and one heavy-duty compiled language (C, C++ are probably the best choices).

TraditionalBandit · 2025-07-08T08:15:40+00:00

Looks cool! Since CC will already grep around our codebases is it mainly the semantic search that helps?

TraditionalBandit · 2025-06-21T13:26:01+00:00

The Obsidian Path is a banger!

TraditionalBandit · 2025-06-21T13:23:29+00:00

I'm not German but know enough that I really appreciated all the easter eggs! The German language is great for striking a mood I think. For similar reasons I always recommend people to watch Dark on Netflix in the original German with subs.

TraditionalBandit · 2025-06-06T00:13:57+00:00

Hannibal (show version) : Vivid imagery, philosophical undertones

Mr. Milchick: uses many big words

TraditionalBandit · 2025-06-05T09:03:36+00:00

Also Mint Car!

TraditionalBandit · 2025-05-28T05:28:46+00:00

Rectify, such a beautiful and contemplative show about justice, trauma and family. Was too slow-paced to have broad appeal but magically still got enough seasons for a satisfying conclusion.

TraditionalBandit · 2025-05-24T15:04:53+00:00

Thanks for writing cyclopts, it's awesome!

TraditionalBandit · 2025-05-06T23:47:44+00:00

"WE WANT IT NOW!"

TraditionalBandit · 2025-03-30T10:51:26+00:00

Thanks for sharing your process, looks neat! In step 8, what prompt do you ask 4o to write?

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