Posts With Tag: Thoughts
Java and Education
Some thoughts on Java and how important good education and a good teacher is.
I had never properly learned how OOP worked or how the ideas behind it contributed to good code. I had never written humongous coding projects until recently . And in my head, I had this idea of Java is bad, and since Java == OOP
, I was begrudging against this year's module on Java—more preciely, programming practices and applications.
Some reflection on writing
Reflecting on how we should think about writing and some AI criticism.
Writing is awesome. It allows you to clear your mind, your thoughts, your ideas by forcing you to think about them properly and write about them, speak about them. Writing has been such an influential tool in dissemination over millenia that I think we must continue writing, maybe not to spread ideas, but for the sake of writing, for the sake of clarity. A written paragraph is the purest of thoughts.
Creating a clone of yourself
...as a text messaging AI model using OpenAI's fine-tuning capabilities.
After OpenAI become mainstream enough, I started becoming fascinated by searching for the existence of an AI model that would mimic myself or another person’s text messages. It would basically work by scraping and refactoring messages from a platform and creating a fine-tuned model, which would be served as a bot on Discord ."
How to Practice Mathematics as an Art
Kutay discusses two starting points on how students can practice mathematics as an art.
A couple years ago, I was truly fascinated by 3Blue1Brown's videos. It was actually his video on an unexpected result that came from colliding blocks that really captured me in the art of mathematics. I couldn't believe that two simple blocks would produce
Why Do People Just Hate Mathematics
Kutay talks about why he thinks people just hate mathematics, finding teaching of mathematics the main culprit.
In my latest post on why mathematics, as a research area, is lonely, I talked about why people just hate mathematics shortly but wanted to write another post, and here I am. In there, I mentioned how our society is kind of divided into two: the ones that are good at mathematics and the ones that are not good at mathematics. I also alluded to how our teaching of mathematics in schools are terrible. In this post, I'm going to expand on what I talked in the other post, giving additional insights.
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