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vatsachakrvthy

3 karma · joined October 22, 2025

https://srivatsasrinivasmath.github.io/
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vatsachakrvthy··on Nix Derivation Madness
How could one debug if we couldn't view contents of the store directory?
vatsachakrvthy··on 987654321 / 123456789
If you want to be lazier, after finding the generating functions one can plug into sympy to skip the algebra.
vatsachakrvthy··on TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation
You're right that rust is not experiment friendly, especially since it doesn't have a repl. I guess I must be into BDSM because my go-to language for experimentation is Haskell
vatsachakrvthy··on TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation
It's not kneeling it's literally just eliminating bugs. It's kind of like saying that we kneel to logic while doing math
vatsachakrvthy··on Typst 0.14
As someone who generates mathematical content as their job

1. Touying

2. Cetz. Personally I think that LLMs are pretty bad at Tikz. I know you said you don't like GUI tools but Inkscape is great

3. github >>> overleaf

vatsachakrvthy··on The Dragon Hatchling: The missing link between the transformer and brain models
Great work by the authors!

But... As Karpathy stated on the Dwarkesh podcast, why do we need brain inspired anything? As Chollet says a transformer is basically a tool for differentiable program synthesis. Maybe the animal brain is one way to get intelligence, but it might actually be easier to achieve in-silica, given the faster computational ability and higher reproducibility of calculations