Hacker News: tanderson92

New comment by tanderson92 in "Linear algebra done right"

tanderson92 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:58:04 +0000

Maybe you need to speak to better math professors.

New comment by tanderson92 in "eigendrum"

tanderson92 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:38:04 +0000

Selecting different materials would not change much. Call the frequencies \lambda_1, \lambda_2, \lambda_3...

You can prove that changing the material has no effect on the relative frequencies: \lambda_2 / \lambda_1, \lambda_3 / \lambda_1, etc. are completely independent of the material.

The shape is the determining factor; changing the materials (and hence the wave speed) just dilates the whole spectrum.

New comment by tanderson92 in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"

tanderson92 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:11:49 +0000

https://xcancel.com/nihilunbounded/status/207910986973986045...

New comment by tanderson92 in "Differentiable Fortran with LFortran and Enzyme"

tanderson92 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:48:19 +0000

Disagree; it irks me to read AI slop, and writing is meant to be persuasive and engaging to human readers.

New comment by tanderson92 in "Differentiable Fortran with LFortran and Enzyme"

tanderson92 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:38:45 +0000

When you say you 'wrote this up', you mean you had an AI write (at least) chunks of it.

New comment by tanderson92 in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

tanderson92 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:01:42 +0000

Amazon has been in the S&P500 since 2005.

New comment by tanderson92 in "Why Gentoo?"

tanderson92 — Fri, 29 May 2026 02:59:40 +0000

There have existed portage replacements in C++ in the past. What you will find on reading the history is that personalities in the Gentoo community can play a more important role than technical excellence.

New comment by tanderson92 in "Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking"

tanderson92 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 03:57:26 +0000

TPOT has a lot of spillover into the rest of twitter at this point; I assure you people in his twitter circles see their stuff all the time.

New comment by tanderson92 in "Americans Overwhelmingly Support Science, but Some Think the U.S. Is Lagging"

tanderson92 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:53:31 +0000

People do not graduate with a STEM PhD with hundreds of thousands in debt; that is not how the education system works pretty much anywhere in the world.

New comment by tanderson92 in "US will overhaul childhood vaccine schedule to recommend fewer shots"

tanderson92 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:50:21 +0000

Interesting. In context that is not the claim what I am contradicting in the comment chain, despite that it is the literal reading of what I said.

New comment by tanderson92 in "US will overhaul childhood vaccine schedule to recommend fewer shots"

tanderson92 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:30:02 +0000

There is no change in the HPV recommendation.

New comment by tanderson92 in "Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer?"

tanderson92 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 17:58:03 +0000

I was literally contributing to Gentoo Linux at age 13. Before, my dad started me on Slackware.

edit: downvoted. Some of you all simply have no belief in or respect for the intelligence of children.

New comment by tanderson92 in "Finding treasures with physics: the fingerprint matrix"

tanderson92 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 22:58:25 +0000

They have.

New comment by tanderson92 in "The Vatican observatory looks to the heavens"

tanderson92 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 18:27:58 +0000

This isn't true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoperimetric_inequality

New comment by tanderson92 in "AI in my plasma physics research didn’t go the way I expected"

tanderson92 — Tue, 20 May 2025 23:33:20 +0000

No, you are not hallucinating: https://web.archive.org/web/20250520152757/https://news.ycom...

New comment by tanderson92 in "AI in my plasma physics research didn’t go the way I expected"

tanderson92 — Tue, 20 May 2025 23:32:16 +0000

The present title is more friendly to VCs and the tech industry, shocking no one.

New comment by tanderson92 in "Solving physics-based initial value problems with unsupervised machine learning"

tanderson92 — Tue, 20 May 2025 15:26:59 +0000

This is basically all work in the physics-informed ML literature. (As another commenter points out and links to, more and more people have been increasingly frustrated with the hype of this subcommunity).

What is more amazing is that they have conned their way into the funding agency priorities and have broadly affected hiring at universities.

New comment by tanderson92 in "Approved fracking compounds can form PFAS a.k.a. “forever chemicals”"

tanderson92 — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 18:33:28 +0000

You have it completely backwards. NY Times is notorious in journalism for forgetting to mention others' articles or putting them towards the very end of the article.

New comment by tanderson92 in "Approved fracking compounds can form PFAS a.k.a. “forever chemicals”"

tanderson92 — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 00:56:20 +0000

Classic NYT burying other publications' beating them to the story.

New comment by tanderson92 in "Breaking the “Lattice Barrier” for the Hidden Number Problem"

tanderson92 — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 03:26:53 +0000

Extremely so.

I also hear emerging possibilities for machine learning techniques in this dynamic space.