Hacker News: mangomountain

New comment by mangomountain in "Think Linear Algebra (2023)"

mangomountain — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:45:50 +0000

I saw a linear algebra “textbook” on Twitter in maybe 2022? It was black background and bright text with a good amount of graphs like someone’s incredibly long blog post. I’ve tried a few times to find it since but haven’t had any luck.

This looks a bit more involved but lovely I think I’ll try it. I read Think Bayes and thought it was great.

New comment by mangomountain in "Markov chains are the original language models"

mangomountain — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 01:30:30 +0000

When I first heard about chat gpt I thought it was a markov chain generator and totally dismissed it lol woops

New comment by mangomountain in "Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda"

mangomountain — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 20:13:23 +0000

This is cool attempt to make a lot of JavaScript run faster in lambda. I personally got a significant decrease in cold start and runtime by switching from js to golang and would recommend as well

New comment by mangomountain in "Coding Without a Laptop – Two Weeks with AR Glasses and Linux on Android"

mangomountain — Sat, 17 May 2025 22:05:01 +0000

Actually not sure if the focal length prevents this, if so very exciting

New comment by mangomountain in "Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety"

mangomountain — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 17:29:44 +0000

That’s such a cool game. I also really like the sandbox music gardens. You might also like Melody of Moominvalley if you’re open to Moomin content

New comment by mangomountain in "The Lost Art of Research as Leisure"

mangomountain — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:15:44 +0000

Sun conjures are so smart this makes me smile :)

New comment by mangomountain in "A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop"

mangomountain — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:57:28 +0000

On Mac so don’t know when I’ll try this but suggest uhk keyboard for anyone going mouseless

New comment by mangomountain in "The Tsunami of Burnout Few See"

mangomountain — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:40:19 +0000

Looking at the hacker news posts from this source is making my blood pump

New comment by mangomountain in "Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician"

mangomountain — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 22:56:25 +0000

In other news we’ve discovered life (our bacteria) on mars Just joking

New comment by mangomountain in "Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough"

mangomountain — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 22:07:55 +0000

This is spot on for the audiobook I’m listening to “Mindset: The Psychology of Success” , it’s resistance to effort that preserves belief in effortless ability and prevents any real progress