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Published · transcript-backedMentions personal use of Mathematica and MATLAB.
3 Mar 2026 Machine Learning Street Talk "Vibe Coding is a Slot Machine" - Jeremy Howard
“during my PhD, I used Mathematica and MATLAB”
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- 3 Mar 2026
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- Machine Learning Street Talk
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…of they can do a certain unit of work. So we actually think through refining and testing with reality. And that's why, I mean, during my PhD, I used Mathematica and MATLAB . And I agree. So we've got this REPL environment and, you know, here's the matrix, let's do an image plot, you know, do a change. This is what it looks like now. And it's actually a wonderful way to kind of just just refine my mental model about something. But Claude code does a lot of this stuff. I think it's mostly a skill issue. I think the people that use Claude codes effectively do this. I've written a content management…
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