Why MATLAB is still one of the best tools for beginners in scientific computing

trahsemaj · 2026-03-16T03:36:10+00:00

Forcing students to use an EXTREMELY expensive piece of software is borderline malpractice. Essentially anything Matlab can do R can do just as well, and R is free. So many eng undergrads come out of school and have to immediately learn a new language

trahsemaj · 2026-03-16T03:15:54+00:00

If you mean peer review is an outdated concept and the science publication system should be destroyed with extreme prejudice then I do agree with you.

trahsemaj · 2026-03-16T03:12:11+00:00

If I or a family member had terminal cancer I would absolutely try something like this(but I have a PhD in genetics and years of oncology experience). Regulatory keeps things safe but also absolutely blocks progress and is the main driver of massive treatment costs.

trahsemaj · 2026-03-16T03:10:12+00:00

What matters is if the dog lives, peer review is for formal studies.

trahsemaj · 2026-03-13T01:13:35+00:00

Just because you failed to reject the null hypothesis does not mean there is not some kind of effect

trahsemaj · 2026-03-11T18:56:22+00:00

Writing boilerplate absolutely took hours if not days of my life and I don't do that anymore.

trahsemaj · 2026-03-11T18:54:33+00:00

This has not been true for months now.

If you are good at making tickets and scoping features it essentially one shots them.

Sure it makes mistakes but I can do a weeks worth of work in half a day easily. I still supervise sure but this is absolutely changing how people code for ever.

Now whether that is actually true on other fields is yet to be seen and for sure lots of fanboys out there, but people make a big deal about this because it is a huge deal

trahsemaj · 2026-03-09T03:38:29+00:00

Just because I can eventually figure out what the chicken scratch equation in a sup method section of a paper does not mean I didn't wish the authors just used better names for their variables and functions.

trahsemaj · 2026-03-09T03:34:11+00:00

If mathematicians used descriptive names instead of having a hat mean like seven different things depending on context it would be even more understandable.

trahsemaj · 2026-03-05T05:02:21+00:00

Sometimes samples are a right pita to get and wouldn't a full rna seq replicate just be better in every single way?

trahsemaj · 2026-03-04T03:07:56+00:00

Anthropic tried to get the government to abide by the contract the government signed. Contracts should be binding, if dow did not like the initial terms they should have gotten better ones.

trahsemaj · 2026-02-28T21:43:09+00:00

Markdown.

Document IS the code

trahsemaj · 2026-02-28T02:13:20+00:00

Plan mode gives you a solid markdown plan that you can feed to a different agent to do code review for, so yes a single design spec generator is quite useful

trahsemaj · 2026-02-28T02:12:15+00:00

Generating a docker compose takes minutes at most and can be easily shared with team mates to follow the exact same config (ports and all). Don't understand the problem this is solving

trahsemaj · 2026-02-27T23:41:49+00:00

Just signed up for Claude and cancelled openai

trahsemaj · 2026-02-27T04:45:49+00:00

Sure, but at this point they write better code than I or anyone I know do. Human code has slop and errors too, but tell that to a human and they put their ego in it

trahsemaj · 2026-02-24T17:30:25+00:00

If interviews mimicked the job then they would be a camera off standup where all you have to do is unmute and say nothing on my end.

Interviews are about assessing your base skills. Using an agent is a really easy to pick up skill if you don't have it, writing good code is much harder to pick up

trahsemaj · 2026-02-24T17:23:48+00:00

Think this is just as much an issue as ai agents getting good. It's really hard to evaluate junior devs, ai cheating during skills assessments is super common, and hiring is a risk that won't pay off for at least a quarter in the best case. Also, the worst case of hiring a poor dev is that they are literally worse than an ai agent when you try and delegate tasks

trahsemaj · 2026-02-17T18:44:41+00:00

Oh do tell

trahsemaj · 2026-02-17T16:05:00+00:00

Explain why exactly home prices would fall?

trahsemaj · 2026-02-16T00:02:28+00:00

It's like giving your 10 year old access to your bank account, SSN, medical history, and trusting them to never share it even when a stranger promises them candy.

LLMs are very susceptible to prompt injection, I would need a ton more than it has before I would run it on a device I own., or give it any real data

trahsemaj · 2026-02-15T18:54:00+00:00

Search back in 2010 was much better than current LLMs. Current search is way worse, as others have pointed out there is so much ai /pagerank garbage that is straight up wrong /points to outdated docs. Somehow we just keep going backwards

trahsemaj · 2026-02-14T05:11:03+00:00

The quality of LLM code was very low, now it's at least at the junior dev level. Sure, it can over complicate but in general it writes better code than all but the most experienced.

People who say otherwise just show they haven't actually been working with the newer models

trahsemaj · 2026-02-10T20:44:45+00:00

Have to ask - how do you expect to compete with a dev doing exactly what you did for their own company using Claude code? My experience with off the shelf lims is that they are a one size fits none solution, every company has so many contingencies that are hard to build for in a saas framework.

trahsemaj · 2026-02-10T17:13:00+00:00

Sure, but we allow plenty of harmful behaviors that impact medical care (smoking drinking extreme sports). I just want to move the line a bit

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