Today a lot more data scientists & engineers are using R, but there are also a whole lot more of them; not sure of ratios.

cohere.ai has more intro stuff for the LLMs which are going to be the big new thing – and change business more than the internet.

All jobs where humans are using computers are at risk of automation or semi-automation using ai.Bots to do whatever the humans were doing on the computer. Reports, summaries, graphs, analysis, art, text, memos, emails, marketing – probabilistic analysis of alternative decision options.

Physical robots are a bit behind, and far more expensive than, software ai Bots.

But for evolution of humanity, best book to read is:
The Goodness Paradox, by Richard Wrangham.
How humans are both the least reactively violent, but also the most efficient proactively violent species.
see https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/did-capital-punishment-create-morality
“Did Capital Punishment Create Morality?
A new book argues that violence—specifically, the killing of alpha males—laid the foundation for virtue.”

TommyJay:

UNM’s one legitimate claim to fame!

Mosler. Cleve Mosler.

The professor who put Matlab together to give UNM students access to the Fortran math libraries without writing Fortran.

But capital-f, he had a degree from CalTech, a Ph.d from Stanford and he worked at JPL before he came to UNM.

No, never used a GOTO. I was trained jn structured programming from the start. And you can do that in ANSI C with discipline.

But dealing with complex numbers systems was a real pain without something like Fortran back when. I think APL did, but that was hideous. Most of my colllegues defaulted to Matlab in later years. Wimps.

Thanks. Fascinating. I doubt I’ll get to analysis in this lifetime.

Ah, C. When men were men and a pointer was a pointer — simple, direct and dangerous.

Fortran in various versions in the early days. I went through a variety of less common languages until I settled on ANSI C. Had to write various math functionality that wasn’t included therein. The big pain was complex math. Eventually almost everything I did required it.

Then of course, C++ with the standard math lib., which was really nice. The object oriented paradigm with the mess of classes was my undoing. A variety of things cropped up in my life, not the least of which was I was becoming an older dog struggling with the new tricks.

Physics prof. Bailed out early. Now a retired amateur investor.

Can’t believe that Gamow wrote a book about a subject that interests me greatly and I wasn’t aware of it. He’s great. If you have a youngster showing STEM proclivities get them a copy of “One Two Three…Infinity” it could change their life – that kind of book.

I remember when math coprocessors were cool! Likewise your computations. How were you programming your math problems?

Also, sorry if I forgot, but what do you do for a living?

And all three groups have a great deal of stick-to-it-tiveness in what they do. 🙂