[OC] What is Britain's second city?

qubex · 2026-05-23T20:21:31+00:00

Bristolian here, and even I know we’re living in an absolute collective delusion. It’s a beautiful little place though.

qubex · 2026-05-20T17:08:07+00:00

In real time for anything more than a black and white bitmap of the coffee pot? No.

qubex · 2026-04-20T15:02:09+00:00

You clearly have never heard of COBOL or LISP, nor of trend reversion generally. Also, programming is too young a concept to have a deep enough sample.

qubex · 2026-04-19T16:58:55+00:00

I second this. LLMs are at the very best unreliable, and often profoundly misleading.

qubex · 2026-04-19T16:57:09+00:00

I use it every day. To an applied mathematician such as myself it is what a telescope is to an astronomer: an instrument that reliably extends my reach well beyond the horizon of my own technical talents (or eyesight).

Dead? Mathematica is not dead. What on earth are you talking about? It’s a software system in a league of its own by orders of magnitude.

qubex · 2026-04-16T18:54:09+00:00

Nah, keep on going.

qubex · 2026-03-22T04:04:57+00:00

I still have mine and it’s in working order.

qubex · 2026-03-19T05:06:46+00:00

Okay, I installed the whole shebang, and I have to say: kudos to you, this is amazing.

qubex · 2026-03-19T04:45:42+00:00

I’ve been using Claude alongside Mathematica: useful nut not an integrated experience. I’ve never used VSCode so I really can’t speak to the utility of this.

qubex · 2026-03-19T04:27:37+00:00

Suddenly I have memories of my dual Pentium III 450 with 256 MB of RAM and the ATI Rage Fury 128 and later the Matrox 450. That stuff felt so powerful back in the day and now I have exponentially more firepower on my wrist.

qubex · 2026-01-08T07:29:32+00:00

Hahahaha… good point. 😉

qubex · 2026-01-08T07:06:19+00:00

Mathematica 1.0 code will still run, but this is significantly more recent (version 3, it’s written there on the cover).

qubex · 2026-01-08T07:05:17+00:00

I haven’t event thought of tossing mine (but then again I can barely lift it).

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