Dan Piponi on Nostr: The sad thing about numpy.einsum is that the naming leads many to think that ...
The sad thing about numpy.einsum is that the naming leads many to think that Einstein's innovation was to leave out sigmas whereas correctly used Einstein summation enforces a non-trivial type system that einsum blithely discards.
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