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dinunnob

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About dinunnob

x.com/brandonsdinunno

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    Comment #49152459

    * in so far as QM is natural, we evolved in its presence and so its probable that we are deeply integrated

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    Comment #49152439

    I stand corrected

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    Comment #49152389

    "god does not play dice" was proven wrong a while ago ...

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    Comment #49151651

    omg welcome philosophers trying to be noticed by frontier labs, lets see if you can set everyone straight (I point to Einstein deliberately looking to philosophy (Spinozian & Machi…

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    Comment #47281316

    I just said pliny was amazing, fwiw - i like that hes hacking on these and posts about it. I rushed to defend, i wish more people were taking old school anarchist cookbook approach…

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    Comment #47281014

    Yeah but i think the philosophy is to show how precarious the guardrails are

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    Comment #47280983

    I dont think anyone is going to dispute this

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    Comment #47280507

    [flagged]

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    Comment #47280481

    Hmm, pliny is amazing - if you kept up with him on social media you’d maybe like him https://x.com/elder_plinius

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    Comment #46908203

    Here's a blog post where symderive was used with Claude Code's team agent framework to recast Fischer's early work in a modern language: https://dinunno.substack.com/p/transforming…

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    Comment #46904944

    [flagged]

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    Comment #46902821

    fixed in the readme. thanks - while we are talking imports ... how did `import pyspark.sql.functions as F` ever get past the pep police

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    Comment #46902795

    removed claim from README

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    Comment #46901415

    It could definitely be better though

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    Comment #46901388

    You can specify symmetry/antisymmetry patterns for tensor index slots and it takes advantage of that to speed up the calculations. This part was pretty important for me so i spent …

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    Comment #46901363

    Not rigorous, but intuition derived from expression string complexity for postfix operations vs standard sympy style. I’ll take this out, readme was written from sleazy used car sa…

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    Comment #46901300

    Yeah, you’re not wrong. Makes the syntax a bit annoying here (goal was to lower barrier of entry for physicists). I agree this is bad practice.

  18. story
    Show HN: SymDerive – A functional, stateless symbolic math library

    Hey HN, I’m a physicist turned quant. Some friends and I 'built' SymDerive because we wanted a symbolic math library that was "Agent-Native" by design, but still a practical tool f…