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What I'd do as a College Freshman in 2025

plinkplonk — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:06:02 +0000

Article URL: https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/04/what-id-do-as-college-freshman.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43763710

Points: 4

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New comment by plinkplonk in "Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today"

plinkplonk — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 04:00:32 +0000

This might be a dumb question, for which apologies in advance, but isn't 200 million a little low for a company with $ 50 million revenue? But maybe not, -- the profit is say $20 million and the acquirers are paying 10 X annual profit?

White House says no need to restrict 'open-source' AI at least for now

plinkplonk — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 16:43:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wdtn.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-white-house-says-no-need-to-restrict-open-source-artificial-intelligence-at-least-for-now/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41111175

Points: 61

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Fast Crimes at Lambda School

plinkplonk — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:57:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sandofsky.com/lambda-school/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40729501

Points: 610

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Hey, let's fire all the devs and replace them with AI

plinkplonk — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 16:18:03 +0000

Article URL: https://mdwdotla.medium.com/hey-lets-fire-all-the-devs-and-replace-them-with-ai-8a0c3011d12

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38794965

Points: 1

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New comment by plinkplonk in "A Journey Through Spain’s Islamic History"

plinkplonk — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 12:31:21 +0000

"Kingdoms of Faith" by Brian Catlos is an excellent book about Al Andalus, from the Arab invasion to the fall of Granada (the aftermath is not covered extensively).

Tyre-makers under pressure as too much rubber hits the road

plinkplonk — Thu, 18 May 2023 15:31:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tyre-makers-under-pressure-too-much-rubber-hits-road-2023-05-17/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35989430

Points: 2

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New comment by plinkplonk in "Open-Sourcing My YC Application (Athens Research, W21)"

plinkplonk — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:18:54 +0000

wow! the YC application has changed quite a bit since the early days. Employment history and "Should you be selected for interview, we may ask for references"!

New comment by plinkplonk in "Seattle becomes first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination"

plinkplonk — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 14:56:07 +0000

Tamil Brahmins usually use the father's first name as the last name for the child.

so wheras in the North, you'd have Narayan Sharma's son being named Vishal Sharma, in Tamil Nadu Sriram Narayan's son would be Vishal Sriram.

So yes, the system does exist

Due Disclosure: South Indian, not a Brahmin, but I have many friends whose names follow this system.

New comment by plinkplonk in "Ask HN: How to learn math from zero for adults?"

plinkplonk — Sun, 29 May 2022 09:25:21 +0000

What helped me get a grip on learning mathematics was learning to prove theorems.

Working through Daniel Velleman's book "How to Prove It" (the only pre requisite is that you can understand boolean logic, which programmers have no problem with), and then a Set Theory book (I used Enderton) set me up to tackle (proof based) Linear Algebra, Analysis etc.

Just my personal experience. Hope this helps.

New comment by plinkplonk in "User Disengagement"

plinkplonk — Fri, 06 May 2022 18:55:51 +0000

Zerodha built a market leading company with conservative tech choices, about 30 devs, and no VC funding. Conservatively estimated to be worth about $2 billion, last I checked.

Very hard to pull this off, especially in a market like India, with a lot of stupid money folks chasing companies with flimsy / non existent business models.

New comment by plinkplonk in "Ask HN: The book that did it for you in math and/or CS?"

plinkplonk — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 22:20:08 +0000

Thanks for this. "Proof idea" is a phrase that concretizes a vague intuition I had about something that exists between a theorem and it's proof

New comment by plinkplonk in "Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?"

plinkplonk — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 14:27:40 +0000

Replied!

New comment by plinkplonk in "Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?"

plinkplonk — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 17:05:17 +0000

I have a few questions but you don't have your email in your hn and profile. :-)

New comment by plinkplonk in "Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?"

plinkplonk — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 13:48:26 +0000

Which system of Chi Kung(if you don't mind) ?

New comment by plinkplonk in "India Counting Down to 1B Doses"

plinkplonk — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 14:30:20 +0000

that makes sense. Trump and Modi have much in common.

New comment by plinkplonk in "India Counting Down to 1B Doses"

plinkplonk — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 10:39:48 +0000

Imagine if Joe Biden's photo was on every vaccine card issued in the USA!

New comment by plinkplonk in "Tell HN: Amplitude (YC W12) just went public – AMA"

plinkplonk — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 11:04:02 +0000

Congratulations Spenser!

From the YC article

"But, in fact, they rather quickly settled on a different problem space that they understood deeply and which immediately resonated with their batchmates. It was also a problem for which the market had not yet, in Spenser and Curtis’s opinion, come up with a great solution. Their chosen target was, of course, mobile analytics. This, it turned out, was precisely the right idea for the team. "

How did you come up with/converge to this idea? what was the thinking process? TIA

New comment by plinkplonk in "Ask HN: Is Signal Down?"

plinkplonk — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 04:38:21 +0000

Down, Bangalore, India

Growing open source from Torch to PyTorch

plinkplonk — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 20:23:17 +0000

Article URL: https://soumith.ch/posts/2021/02/growing-opensource/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28042126

Points: 78

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