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New comment by pathsjs in "Addictions Are Being Engineered"

pathsjs — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 20:33:02 +0000

For one thing you can use VC money to pay for ads

New comment by pathsjs in "Why Writing by Hand Is Better for Memory and Learning"

pathsjs — Sat, 31 May 2025 15:04:34 +0000

In fact, this is an opportunity to anticipate what is going to be written. I studied maths, so I am not sure how it would work for other fields of study. But one thing that worked very well for me was to write everything, spoken or written, before it was said, or to try to stay 10 seconds ahead of the lecture. This would keep my attention and it would require an active comprehension, like continuously doing exercises. I was then able to recall what was said much better. And I could take advantage of the pauses to get a little ahead so I would not get lost in the next difficult passage. Of course, this only works in fields where there is a strong logical connection between the various parts of the lecture, so that you can indeed try to figure out yourself, it would not work where there is a lot of memorization

New comment by pathsjs in "How University Students Use Claude"

pathsjs — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 09:43:26 +0000

Yes, it must be more than 17k and less than 18k

New comment by pathsjs in "The cultural divide between mathematics and AI"

pathsjs — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:41:41 +0000

Grothendieck did not have a comprehensive view of mathematics, nor he ever claimed to. There are vast swathes of mathematics (e.g. PDE or probability) that never fell under Grothendieck's radar

New comment by pathsjs in "The cultural divide between mathematics and AI"

pathsjs — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:31:19 +0000

Computational mathematics may have adopted conventions from computer science, but I assure you that the alphabetical order convention is definitely the standard in most pure mathematics (with some exceptions, such as the Ascoli-Arzelà theorem)

New comment by pathsjs in "DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player"

pathsjs — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 08:23:26 +0000

I'd be curious to try it but I don't understand from the site whether it is mobile only. It claims that there is a utility to sync with desktop but then it doesn't run on desktop?

New comment by pathsjs in "Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018)"

pathsjs — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 11:36:35 +0000

I suggest Mylio: it ticks all the things you required, except possibly of `multiple files as part of the same "image"`.

It will store everything locally, keep your folder structure, every metadata is inside a sidecar XML, allows for various notions of "date" and more.

Not affiliated with them, just a happy user

New comment by pathsjs in "QwQ: Alibaba's O1-like reasoning LLM"

pathsjs — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 08:51:40 +0000

I mean, isn't it trivial? For instance, you can make any Euler characteristic you want by making a cell complex with a 1-cells and b 2-cells and then the Euler characteristic will be 1 + b - a. Am I missing something? If this is the problem and this is how the model looks for a solution, yes, it is overcomplicating things.

New comment by pathsjs in "X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired after yes-or-resign ultimatum"

pathsjs — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 14:07:31 +0000

I am Italian and at my previous work at a bank, I had a two month notice (originally one, but increased with seniority). As far as I know, it is pretty common in Italy, and employers know that when they hire someone, the person will only join one to three months later due to this - or sometimes they offer to pay the penalty

New comment by pathsjs in "Qwen2-Math"

pathsjs — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 16:28:51 +0000

I was going to write the same thing. I checked the first three problems and all solutions are partial at best. Now, don't get me wrong, this is still impressive. But putting the problems there with the implication that qwen solves them correctly when it doesn't does not really inspire trust

New comment by pathsjs in "With fifth busy beaver, researchers approach computation's limits"

pathsjs — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 06:30:40 +0000

I am not aware of any result of Hardy with applications to cryptography, but I'd be curious to be found wrong

New comment by pathsjs in "Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance"

pathsjs — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 20:41:26 +0000

How complex is it to configure? I have an instance of NextCloud from Hetzner, but I would rather not misconfigure it.

Also, is there a mobile app? Most of the time when I look at pictures I am on the phone

New comment by pathsjs in "Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance"

pathsjs — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 20:39:00 +0000

How complex is it to configure memories? I own a hosted instance of NextCloud from Hetzner, but I would rather not misconfigure it. Also, is there a mobile app? I think not having one is limiting, since most of the time I want to look at the pictures on the phone

New comment by pathsjs in "Stop irreversible damage to the Amazon"

pathsjs — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 16:21:39 +0000

I don't know, coffee here costs 1€ everywhere

Ask HN: Photo cloud service to use in 2023

pathsjs — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 22:48:28 +0000

I have resisted for many years to use cloud services to host my pictures, but the friction to use multiple devices and share photos with my wife is only growing, so I am looking for a good alternative. I have about 70GB of pictures from all my life, which I am currently keeping both on a Mac laptop and on an SD card on my Android phone.

Ideally, my workflow would be:

- take pictures from either my personal of work phone

- have them magically backuped on my laptop

- possibly, have them synced on my personal phone as well

- the work phone can just be a source, if I need to access photos there, I can use a client to look them online

My needs are:

- basic tagging functionality, possibly automated (dates, places, maybe people) with some sort of search

- possiblity to share albums with other people

- important: pictures should never live in the cloud only, so some sort of sync at least on the laptop, possibly on Android phones as well

- clients for Mac, Android, if possible Linux

- the service should have at least some chance of lasting forever - moving all your pictures is a hassle, I would like to have at least some chance to be able to use it 30 years from now

I have considered Nextcloud: I already have some hosting on Hetzner, but I couldn't find photo management apps that are usable both in the browser and on phones. Otherwise, there is Google Photos, Amazon Photos... Anything else?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34211905

Points: 2

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Ask HN: Good book on color theory for programmers

pathsjs — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 10:16:52 +0000

I am looking for a book on color science which covers all the usual topics - the basics of perception, physics of color, color spaces, luminance, white balance, color histograms and so on - but that is targeted to programmers.

By this, I mean that I would like to understand how one would implement various algorithms (say, color space transforms) and also cover a bit of the more technological aspects, for instance what are ICC profiles and how to use them.

What could be a good suggestion?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32136493

Points: 2

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New comment by pathsjs in "A gentle introduction to vector databases"

pathsjs — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 18:02:59 +0000

For what is worth, I do appreciate their links, and their resources are pretty informative (I am not by any means affiliated with Pinecone)

New comment by pathsjs in "Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?"

pathsjs — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 08:58:49 +0000

I am making a series of books on commutative algebra. The first one is available at https://www.ams.org/open-math-notes/omn-view-listing?listing...

There is a sequel on homological methods, which is not online, and I am currently trying to publish both. When I have time, I would like to write a third volume on homotopical methods (essentially all the stuff needed for André-Quillen cohomology and the cotangent complex).

New comment by pathsjs in "Beyond Smart"

pathsjs — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 21:55:10 +0000

Good luck learning everything that humanity knows about physics in six years! :-) Luckily, you don't really need to do that before starting research

New comment by pathsjs in "Nim 1.6"

pathsjs — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 15:33:03 +0000

Wow, what a great invention I have been missing! You made my day! :-)