Someone else using fortran in research checking in. In particle physics, were basically writing huge, physics heavy Markov chain monte Carlos in it. Just one example.

You should meet the maths majors who aren’t really interested in maths but think a maths degree will allow them to become hedge fund managers or similar

The wishing they weren’t a specialist is so real. I wish my psychiatrist was also my GP and my therapist. I’ve found out through her about diagnoses that are in my chart that nobody ever bothered to tell me about and that I overlooked in there, as well as about off label medication uses that you mentioned and medication or illness interactions I never would’ve guessed. Outside her domain too, e.g. between my thyroid meds and ibuprofen. All the GPs I’ve ever been to are either jaded, refuse to learn or admit you might know something they dont, or don’t take you seriously.

Thanks a lot! I’ll try to figure it out myself first, and might get back to you if the need arises!

To be very honest, I’m also a tad embarrassed to share my code. I guess I’ll ask my professor about this.

I’m sorry to tell you this but people do not, in fact, publish mathematical proofs on GitHub routinely. You publish them on arxive once the paper is done. And then in a journal. The solvers themselves aren’t even what it’s about at all, they’re just to do numerical experiments with to have some examples. They aren’t immediately useful for any applications outside niche research.

Because I’m in academia and it’s a slow process to get things published in a way that ‘counts’ to the university and scientific community. I often need to implement stuff first to check a few things, whether it’s viable etc.

Nobody has built a tool that executes a mathematical method that I have developed or at least adapted, at least not before I publish the method.

It’s so old that it was for purposes of saving memory.

I’m not a coder, but my job requires a bunch of menial, boring coding. I do numerical simulations. After mathematically understanding the numerical method, it’s basically half a step above data entry. There’s also a bunch of legacy fortran code I have to build on that has zero documentation and three letter variables. This would be one of the few actually good applications of text generating machine learning imo.

Tangential, but I’m working with some code that started out in the punch card era (I’m doing particle physics, it’s in fortran)

More specifically it’s because Israel and its allies are running a successful global campaign of conflating opposition to its genocide with antisemitism, which, in turn, normalises antisemitism, which, obviously, harms Jewish people everywhere.

This follow along while helping family is 100% why I keep a windows partition.

gedit gang

You could literally just save a copy to your desktop before you’re going to do something sensitive.

What about the libre office version?

I’m currently working with some code that partly was written in the punch card era.

We’re almost like coding siblings lol

How dare you. I’m a physicist, not an engineer.