In practical terms, you do not need a university degree to become a programmer because, unlike law and medicine, software engineering is not regulated. You just need to have the skills. This concern is even bigger in the AI era. People wonder if going to college is still worth it. “I can make a ReactContinue reading “In the AI Era, is going to college worth it to become a programmer?”
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Trying out LLMs to disprove mathematical conjectures with luck
Some unsolved problems in Number Theory are surprisingly not so hard to understand, even for a non-mathematician like myself. The Collatz conjecture is a famous example but there are others: If these conjectures turn out to be false, computational methods may be able to find counterexamples. In the case of the Beal conjecture, assuming thatContinue reading “Trying out LLMs to disprove mathematical conjectures with luck”
A Descriptive Data Analysis about the Chess Grandmasters
You can see and download the complete Jupyter Notebook HERE or in my Github repository. Alternatively, to directly access the notebook in Google Colab, click HERE. The notebook is written as a data analysis report. In this post, I skip the Python scripts and methodological details. I focus on the results, showing some nice visualizationsContinue reading “A Descriptive Data Analysis about the Chess Grandmasters”
Newsletter NSSN nº17
This is our newsletter nº 17. I expect to publish the NSSN once a month. This newsletter varies in content, though it always includes a bit of math and computer science stuffs. Beside that, other subjects are: arts, sports, science, philosophy and possibly others. If you bet this newsletter may be interesting for you, pleaseContinue reading “Newsletter NSSN nº17”
Newsletter NSSN nº16
UPDATE October 2020: The newsletter NSSN is now released once a month, not weekly. This is our newsletter nº 16. I expect to publish the NSSN once a week on Thursday or Friday, but not always. This newsletter varies in content, though it always includes a bit of math and computer science stuffs. Beside that,Continue reading “Newsletter NSSN nº16”
Newsletter NSSN nº15
UPDATE October 2020: The newsletter NSSN is now released once a month, not weekly. This is our newsletter nº 15. I expect to publish the NSSN once a week on Thursday or Friday, but not always. This newsletter varies in content, though it always includes a bit of math and computer science stuffs. Beside that,Continue reading “Newsletter NSSN nº15”
Newsletter NSSN nº13
UPDATE October 2020: The newsletter NSSN is now released once a month, not weekly. This is our thirteenth newsletter. I expect to publish the NSSN once a week on Thursday or Friday, but not always. This newsletter varies in content, though it always includes a bit of math and computer science stuffs. Beside that, otherContinue reading “Newsletter NSSN nº13”
Not So Short Notes 