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Is Julian/til beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to Julian/til to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

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8
Forks
2
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
77
Dominant language
CSS
License
CC0-1.0
Last GitHub push
Sep 6, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 18, 2026
Contributing guide
No contributing guide
Code of conduct
No code of conduct
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How to contribute to Julian/til

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's CC0-1.0 license.
  3. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.

Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date

  • Theoretical Minimum / Susskind Lectures
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/til#188 ·

  • Effects of Data Presentation, Charts vs. Graphs vs etc. for Equivalent Datasets
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/til#143 ·

  • Semantic Interposition
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/til#140 ·

  • Topology for Neuroscience
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 15/100

    Julian/til#137 ·

  • Orange You Accessible? A Mini Case Study on Color Ratio
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Julian/til#132 ·

  • Estimating the number of unseen species: A bird in the hand is worth logn in the bush
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

    Julian/til#123 ·

  • Pseudo-labelling
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Julian/til#121 ·

  • What do we want a foundation to do? Comparing set-theoretic, category-theoretic, and univalent approaches
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/til#118 ·

  • Probability matching
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    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/til#117 ·

  • Reflections on the compatibility, performance, and scalability of parallel Python
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    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/til#114 ·

  • Ungrammar
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/til#112 ·

  • Typing With Pleasure
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/til#111 ·

  • UART
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Julian/til#104 ·

  • Options as Insurance
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/til#103 ·

  • An Empirical Look at Software Patents
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 15/100

    Julian/til#102 ·

  • Statistical Shortcomings in Standard Math Libraries
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/til#99 ·

  • Frequentism and Bayesianism a Practical Intro
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/til#94 ·

  • A Singular Mathematical Promenade
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/til#89 ·

  • A Look in the Mirror: Attacks on Package Managers
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/til#88 ·

  • Effort for Payment: A Tale of Two Markets
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/til#87 ·

  • Principled Parsing for Indentation-Sensitive Languages
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/til#86 ·

  • Is the analysis as taught in universities in fact the analysis of definable numbers?
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    Julian/til#85 ·

  • Floyd Cycle Detection
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/til#84 ·

  • Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/til#83 ·

  • Are Motorways Rational From Slime Mould's Point of View?
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/til#82 ·

  • Predicting When P vs NP is Resolved
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/til#81 ·

  • Paleoaltimetry
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/til#80 ·

  • How Does a Video Codec Work
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/til#79 ·

  • Domes are very Overrated
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/til#78 ·

  • Superpermutations
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    Julian/til#77 ·

  • Automated Software Test Case Generation
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/til#76 ·

  • Statisticians want to abandon science’s standard measure of ‘significance’
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/til#72 ·

  • Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses hash tables
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/til#71 ·

  • Beyond L2 Loss — How we experiment with loss functions at Lyft
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Julian/til#70 ·

  • Python Data Science Handbook
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/til#69 ·

  • A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/til#68 ·

  • Non-commutative Cryptography
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/til#67 ·

  • Graph Isomorphism in Quasipolynomial Time
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/til#66 ·

  • Linux Applications Performance: Introduction
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/til#65 ·

  • Quantum Probability
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 30/100

    Julian/til#64 ·

  • Sheaves in Data Analytics
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/til#63 ·

  • The world in which IPv6 was a good design
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/til#62 ·

  • Eigenvectors from Eigenvalues
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/til#61 ·

  • Can random variables that almost surely solve equations be repaired to surely solve these equations?
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/til#60 ·

  • Teaching a computer to strafe jump in Quake with reinforcement learning
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    Julian/til#55 ·

  • Beyond the Code: Mining Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Issue Tracker Systems
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/til#53 ·

  • Inferring causal impact using Bayesian structural time-series models
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/til#52 ·

  • io_uring
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    Julian/til#50 ·

  • The CPU Cost of Networking on a Host
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/til#49 ·

  • Physical Attractiveness Bias in the Legal System
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/til#47 ·

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