diego rodríguez atencia

Diego Rodríguez Atencia

mathematician · madrid · builds things from scratch

Hi! I'm Diego, a mathematician from UAM, data science @ PwC. I build things that solve problems I actually have, I read a lot of science fiction, and I climb. If you like mus, try playing against open-weight LLMs at the live table below!

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barrapp, and an agent harness with its own memory
away from desk
climbing, the sierra, chess, mus
read the cv → dratencia@gmail.com

Running on this site right now

open one, it works
live table Mus against the LLMs Sit down with glm5.3-flash, qwen3.8-flash and deepseek-v4-flash, with real señas and rivals intercepting gestures. live from github Working on What has my attention this week and how far I am through the exercises.

Things I'm building

barrapp

closed testing

Counts and scores your calisthenics reps from a phone video, and says so when a rep can't be read.

Unibox launcher home and days metrics screens

unibox

repo ↗

An Android launcher that centralizes the metrics you need — screen, sleep, pickups, patterns — and folds apps, habits and the next step into one home screen.

Updated Forja website with the AWS challenge and challenge catalogue

forja

73 challenges · 130 checks

Rebuild the systems you use every day from scratch, in your editor, graded locally.

Mus live table with four seats and Spanish cards

Play the Spanish card game against live language models, with covert señas and rivals that can read them.

Writing

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Questions about my work, answered from what I’ve built. English or Spanish.

On the shelf

  • Cover of Children of Time
    read Children of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Cover of Children of Ruin
    reading now Children of Ruin Adrian Tchaikovsky

Away from the desk

  • climbingOn rock and at the gym
  • hikingSierra de Guadarrama, Picos de Europa
  • tablesChess and mus, which is how mus_bench started

Open questions

unfinished on purpose · answers welcome
  1. q1

    Is a decentralized civilization feasible?

    notes coming

  2. q2

    What is true, versus what you are told?

    related · bayesian consensus →

  3. q3

    Can the Collatz map be read as linear algebra?

    related · collatz & linear algebra →

  4. q4

    How big a sofa fits around the corner?

    notes coming