Hacker News: takd

New comment by takd in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

takd — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:20:33 +0000

Maybe Ted Chiang's The Evolution of Human Science?

New comment by takd in "Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models"

takd — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:20:00 +0000

Amazing work.

u.i. Zugló robot mikor?

Speeding Up Python with Rust and No Prior Knowledge

takd — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 11:52:56 +0000

Article URL: https://volzo.de/posts/rust-in-python/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43691464

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

How Much Would You Need to Be Paid to Live on a Deserted Island and Kill Seals?

takd — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:39:18 +0000

Article URL: https://mattlakeman.org/2020/07/10/how-much-would-you-need-to-be-paid-to-live-on-a-deserted-island-for-1-5-years-and-do-nothing-but-kill-seals/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545557

Points: 1

# Comments: 4

Research on the Bongard Problems (2006)

takd — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 16:24:59 +0000

Article URL: https://foundalis.com/res/diss_research.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42899544

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by takd in "Is the frequency domain a real place?"

takd — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 11:48:12 +0000

The question itself merits discussion, while the post did not exactly answer it.

New comment by takd in "Is the frequency domain a real place?"

takd — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 11:40:28 +0000

As a related aside, the terms "cepstrum" and the "quefrencies" [1] (c.f. spectrum and frequencies) sound so hilarious that when I first heard about them I was convinced it was some kind of prank.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepstrum

New comment by takd in "Is the frequency domain a real place?"

takd — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 08:34:14 +0000

Mathematically, the Fourier transform is "simply" a way of representing time signals in a certain orthogonal vectorial basis. Vectors in an ordinary sense, e.g. a displacement vector on Earth's surface can also be represented in several orthogonal bases: one basis could, for example, be two vectors pointing North and East; another could be a vector pointing along a certain road and one perpendicular to it. There is nothing inherently special about any of these bases, one could draw maps according to any of these two or many other conventions. (Orthogonal basis vectors are not even necessary, only convenient.)

The interesting thing about time-dependent signals (or any "pretty" function, really) is that they live in an infinite-dimensional vector space, which is hard to imagine; but (besides some important technicalities) the math works mostly the same way: signals as infinite-dimensional vectors can be represented in a lot of bases. One representation is the Fourier transform, where the basis vectors are harmonic functions. The "map" showing the shape of a signal as a combination of infinitely many harmonic functions -- i.e. the frequency domain -- is just as real as any other map with different basis vectors, e.g. the Walsh–Hadamard transform mentioned in the article. And, crucially, the original time-domain representation is also just one map showing us the signal, though it is often the most natural to us.

Fancy math doesn't make simple math stop being true

takd — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 23:55:58 +0000

Article URL: https://dynomight.net/fancy-math/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38975801

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by takd in "JupyterLab 4.0"

takd — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 11:14:23 +0000

I had good experiences with nbdime.

On Malignant Escapism

takd — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:17:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/on-malignant-escapism

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35356827

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by takd in "I Asked ChatGPT to Explain Some Jokes to Me"

takd — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 09:53:02 +0000

Which koan is that?

Covfefe Act

takd — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 08:46:18 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVFEFE_Act

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30828551

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by takd in "Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: Touchpad Gestures Now Shipping"

takd — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 08:22:52 +0000

What versions of the mentioned packages is this feature included in? I.e. what should I be looking for in my distro updates?

New comment by takd in "Show HN: HackerDaily – What if HN updates only once a day?"

takd — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 18:23:57 +0000

1. Yes, I think all HackerDaily articles should be included. 30-50 articles per day is not that much.

2. I think separate RSS feeds for different timezones might be better (not _every_ timezone, but say, every whole hour offset), so everyone can choose what they want; either based on the timezone or on their daily routine.

New comment by takd in "Show HN: HackerDaily – What if HN updates only once a day?"

takd — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 12:20:17 +0000

I really like the idea, and the site is pretty. Is there a daily RSS feed too? I cannot find it.

New comment by takd in "A look at /e/OS on the FairPhone 3 – a FOSS OS for phones [video]"

takd — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 11:55:31 +0000

I have been using /e/OS on a Fairphone 3 for several months now, and I am quite satisfied.

Yes, it is built on LineageOS, though I am not sure how closely it is tracked.

They have their own cloud services, but you can opt out. You can use your own Nextcloud server as well, which I think is pretty neat: you can have a convenient cloud-based experience (contact and calendar sync etc.) with the stock /e/OS installation, while also having ownership of your data in your Nextcloud instance. (Their own servers are also heavily based on Nextcloud.)

Regarding app stores: I think it is the weakest point. F-Droid is nice but not enough, the /e/OS App Store is a bit murky for me; for most of the non-FOSS apps I use the Aurora Store, which seems trustworthy to me so far.