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sgdpk commented on Tesla sales drop for fifth month in a row in Europe   abcnews.go.com/Business/w... · Posted by u/doener
sgdpk · 2 months ago
We have been pretty well informed of Musk's shenanigans in Portugal. His sieg heil spread pretty quickly.
sgdpk commented on Warren Buffett amasses more cash and sells more stock   cnbc.com/2025/02/22/warre... · Posted by u/belter
sgdpk · 7 months ago
Ben Felix recounts Buffett's answer to this in 2019:

https://youtu.be/32SnTUtdsOI?t=557

sgdpk commented on Show HN: ArXivTok   arxivtok.vercel.app/... · Posted by u/Miguel07Code
Miguel07Code · 7 months ago
Mm maybe running a local LLM for doing it would be a great idea, I'll try to do that and if it doesn't work well, I'll consider doing it with an API.
sgdpk · 7 months ago
Cool :) I am a scientist, so having an easier way to parse the abstracts would be most welcome. Keep up the good work.
sgdpk commented on Show HN: ArXivTok   arxivtok.vercel.app/... · Posted by u/Miguel07Code
sgdpk · 7 months ago
It looks great. But it's missing one critical feature of "fast-food" apps like TikTok: the content is not easily digestible. Which is understandable, because scientific papers are dense.

Maybe a good idea would be to parse the abstract through an LLM to make it more understandable (maybe caching the results so it's not expensive)? Maybe also using some standard style, like starting with a couple of "dumbed-down" sentences of the article for the non-expert, and progressively explaining better.

sgdpk commented on Heisenberg and the early days of quantum mechanics (1976) [pdf]   cs.westminstercollege.edu... · Posted by u/adtac
sgdpk · a year ago
Good read. It is also refreshing to read how Schrödinger came up with his equation even if it was not clear how to interpret it.

He was attempting to formalize de Broglie's "particles as waves" concept, which, according to the article, "could obtain the quantization rules of Niels Bohr and Sommerfeld by demanding that an integer number of waves should be fitted along a stationary orbit."

Schrödinger's equation put that claim on firm mathematical grounds. It gave correct predictions. But just what this new "wave function" was remained up to interpretation.

sgdpk commented on Harmonic Function Theory   axler.net/HFT.html... · Posted by u/ibobev
sgdpk · a year ago
I don't know about this book, but I highly recommend "Linear Algebra Done Right" by the same author. It is a very clear presentation of Linear Algebra. Although I would recommend it for someone who already took a first course on it.
sgdpk commented on Symbolica Computer Algebra System   symbolica.io/... · Posted by u/weinzierl
SPACECADET3D · a year ago
Author here: you can generate the Groebner basis in lex order or compute a resultant, but it doesn't automatically backsubstitute the system at the moment. This is mostly because I haven't committed yet to a format to describe roots of polynomials. It's on the todo list though :)
sgdpk · a year ago
Thank you for replying! The project seems promising, I'll follow with interest. Hope it goes well :)
sgdpk commented on Symbolica Computer Algebra System   symbolica.io/... · Posted by u/weinzierl
sgdpk · a year ago
Does this handle elimination of variables in a polynomial system (using an eliminating order for Groebner basis)?
sgdpk commented on Interactive visualization of qubit states   desmos.com/3d/d6a5c7d3b2... · Posted by u/sgdpk
sgdpk · a year ago
This is a visualization of what the states of a qubit can look like in two different physical systems (particle spin / photon polarization). Despite their differences, they can be described using the same mathematical object: a unit vector, here represented on the famous Bloch sphere.

u/sgdpk

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