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dinunnob··on The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)
* in so far as QM is natural, we evolved in its presence and so its probable that we are deeply integrated
dinunnob··on The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)
I stand corrected
dinunnob··on The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)
"god does not play dice" was proven wrong a while ago ...
dinunnob··on The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)
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 & Machian) to guide his views - and he did all right.)
dinunnob··on A tool that removes censorship from open-weight LLMs
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 approaches to these things
dinunnob··on A tool that removes censorship from open-weight LLMs
Yeah but i think the philosophy is to show how precarious the guardrails are
dinunnob··on A tool that removes censorship from open-weight LLMs
I dont think anyone is going to dispute this
dinunnob··on A tool that removes censorship from open-weight LLMs
Hmm, pliny is amazing - if you kept up with him on social media you’d maybe like him https://x.com/elder_plinius
dinunnob··on Show HN: SymDerive – A functional, stateless symbolic math library
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-fisher-an-agenti...

dinunnob··on Show HN: SymDerive – A functional, stateless symbolic math library
fixed in the readme. thanks -

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

dinunnob··on Show HN: SymDerive – A functional, stateless symbolic math library
removed claim from README
dinunnob··on Show HN: SymDerive – A functional, stateless symbolic math library
It could definitely be better though
dinunnob··on Show HN: SymDerive – A functional, stateless symbolic math library
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 some time thinking about it. I wanted to try to put xACT’s patterns in but it would have been quite the undertaking.
dinunnob··on Show HN: SymDerive – A functional, stateless symbolic math library
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 salesman advertising point of view. Was more rigorous in examples/test
dinunnob··on Show HN: SymDerive – A functional, stateless symbolic math library
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.