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New comment by bawis in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

bawis — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 01:57:25 +0000

Do yourself a favour and read Informing Ourselves to Death.

New comment by bawis in "More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding"

bawis — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:04:37 +0000

One can get paid the big bucks without a clue what they do, even some of the most brilliant statisticians do acknowledge the ambiguity of stats.

Evaluating Time Series Foundation Model Claims

bawis — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:40:52 +0000

Article URL: https://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/foundation_models.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442232

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by bawis in "Linear algebra done right"

bawis — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:44:08 +0000

For math majors, LADR is far better than LADW, almost most of LA books use the determinant to prove the advanced stuff (diagonlaization etc), what sets LADR apart is the intentional delay of introducing determinants in order to prove (and hence understand) what's the goal behind concepts such as diagonalization, I love this method.

New comment by bawis in "Ask HN: Any Curated Forum Directories?"

bawis — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:44:28 +0000

I have problems accessing both the links, 'Timed Out' problem, is it working for u?

New comment by bawis in "Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died"

bawis — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:10:05 +0000

What did the course cover?

New comment by bawis in "Ask HN: What did you learn last month? (July 2026)"

bawis — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:21:20 +0000

What's the story of the Hermitian matrix and self adjoint operators?

New comment by bawis in "The unreasonable difficulty of time series forecasting"

bawis — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:41:09 +0000

> Whenever I teach people time series forecasting, I always point out that one of the biggest challenges is that you will always have values at prediction time that are out side the range of values observed during training (specifically the value of t).

I don't get this, time is usually not a covariate in ts models, so why is it a challenge?

Ask HN: Favourite science history book of the 20th century?

bawis — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:21:19 +0000

I like the anecdotes and interesting lives of 20th century mathematicians/computer scientist, suggest me please your favourite history book about them.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981842

Points: 9

# Comments: 14

New comment by bawis in "Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era"

bawis — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 10:03:59 +0000

Were they translated to Hindi or kept in their original language?

New comment by bawis in "Ask HN: Am I missing something with AI"

bawis — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:57:03 +0000

>> Now, we have better knowledge of prompting as people have learnt what to say

Can you back up this claim? what do you mean exactly by "better knowledge" ?

New comment by bawis in "How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math"

bawis — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:16:59 +0000

The smartest people *usually* have little idea how *us* mortals can abuse the GenAI tools, because they are aware of their limitations, but we aint.

New comment by bawis in "Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?"

bawis — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:16:35 +0000

What are you favourites?

New comment by bawis in "Ask HN: Do you know any company that's making money with LLMs?"

bawis — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:12:27 +0000

Anthropic?

New comment by bawis in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

bawis — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:43:13 +0000

Exactly, girls and women can do astonishing work in fields that favour more or less their mutual traits and vice versa, no need for "hehe we are better because GPA said so".

New comment by bawis in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

bawis — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:09:04 +0000

The report is done by an Israeli organization, find another neutral, credible source for these claims.

New comment by bawis in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

bawis — Sun, 31 May 2026 08:21:34 +0000

Expertise is largely tacit knowledge, reading AI slop isn't expertise.

New comment by bawis in "Can we have the day off?"

bawis — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:38:38 +0000

Is there any English source for more information about the years of strikes you mentioned?

New comment by bawis in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

bawis — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:43:20 +0000

You need sources for this one, specifically the killing and raping claims.

New comment by bawis in "Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?"

bawis — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:05:01 +0000

I love the typical family-owned small businesses, their runners are the ones that aspired entrepreneurs should listen to their advices instead of bestsellers books of ghouls preaching their bullshit.