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Re:Ask HN: What projects do you donate to? on Monday May 26, 2025 @11:47PM (#44103788)
I donated to https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge once. Invaluable for working with Wine-compatible VSTs on Linux.
Re:A notification for you, Apple: There is no husband on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @12:58PM (#42783202)
As one example, sr.ht advertises the lack of AI features.
UMich has a couple other linear algebra courses that might be better for that: MATH 214, MATH 217 are the numbers if I remember correctly. 217 is known for having a high workload and greater rigor, but some say it's worth it even for non-Math majors.
I took this course 3 years ago. I found it fast-moving, and it focused a lot more on applications than fundamentals, which meant it was more wide than it was deep. This didn't turn out so well when I decided to study ML later and needed stronger linear algebra fundamentals, but it was a fun course. There were a couple interesting course projects, one of which was using linear algebra to balance a (simulated) 2D robot.

Show HN: Sveddy – Collaborative Filtering for PostgreSQL

https://github.com/RobbieGM/sveddy

After finishing an intro to ML course, I felt inspired to implement a collaborative filtering algorithm right where it'd be most useful - in the database itself. As of now Sveddy implements only one algorithm: UV decomposition (similar to SVD, which inspired the project name). It also implements continuous learning to efficiently update a model as users express their preferences about items....

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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023) on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @01:15AM (#37748213)

  Location: Ann Arbor, MI
  Remote: Yes, or hybrid/in-office
  Willing to relocate: Maybe
  Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript, C++, Python, Java, Git, React, Next.js, Node.js HTML, CSS, SQL
  Résumé/CV: https://robbiegm.github.io/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbie-moore-7217b9175/ (resume with references available upon request to protect their privacy)
  Email: [email protected]
I'm a University of Michigan 3rd year undergrad student looking for a summer 2024 internship. I fell in love with programming 9 years ago, and have been aiming to make maintainable, user-friendly software ever since. Outside of school, I've built my programming skills by creating a number of side projects, working freelance, and doing two summer-long full-time internships at Domino's. At the University of Michigan, I've taken courses covering machine learning, robotics, computer microarchitecture, data structures & algorithms, technical communication, and more.
Re:Piano Emulator in Your Terminal on Thursday August 10, 2023 @10:37AM (#37076722)
There are some really good piano samples available for free--why put in the work for the physical modeling approach?
Re:Any Deep ReLU Network Is Shallow on Thursday June 22, 2023 @01:36PM (#36435799)
Do you have any further information or a source for this? As someone unfamiliar with ML, this sounds crazy to me.
Re:The Fertilizer Shortage Will Persist in 2023 on Friday February 03, 2023 @08:45PM (#34650467)
Do you have a more sustainable way to produce meat in mind? Ethics aside, the addition of another trophic level makes meat production necessarily less efficient than that of an equivalent amount of plants.
Re:Why are online recipes always so long-winded? on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @06:03PM (#34619351)
I like his channel but he's far from perfect. There's a sponsored product in most of his videos

Ask HN: Internships working on C or C++ FOSS software?

I'm a second year college student and admittedly I've started applying to internships pretty late. In my past experience, professional or otherwise, I've done mostly web dev and want to move away from that. I've used C++ and, more recently, C in uni projects and would like to use those skills to contribute to some interesting FOSS projects, e.g. the Linux kernel, LLVM, PostgreSQL. Unfortunately...

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Re:Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu? on Sunday January 29, 2023 @09:14PM (#34575085)
For anyone interested in trying it know there is one major downside: most Linux binaries won't run on it because dynamically linked libraries work strangely on NixOS
Re:In Praise of FFmpeg on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @02:45PM (#33181241)
If you then distribute that modified software, users don't have the freedom to modify it in turn since your source code would be unavailable.
Re:58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere on Sunday September 25, 2022 @02:54PM (#32974682)
Isn't it more readable not to have really long lines?
They absolutely should get that control though. The only thing preventing them from having it, often, are artificial limitations. Don't place too much faith in "the market" to fix problems.
Re:From a WebAssembly Perspective on Thursday August 25, 2022 @05:36PM (#32600250)
The interface types proposal seems to have been dead for a while, unfortunately.
So, let's force that "value" on every user rather than let them build the experience they actually like?
Re:Discord Switching to React Native for Android App on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @03:07PM (#32322956)
--ozone-platform=WAYLAND ?
Re:I miss the programmable web (2021) on Monday August 01, 2022 @11:47AM (#32307737)
Almost nobody is doing this, and almost nobody ever will because it breaks accessibility and a whole host of other features. I would save the alarmism for another day.
I find the ones on lichess quite useful. As for whether they work for ads, I'm not sure, IIRC you'll need to have your browser open or at least running in the background to get push notifications, so my hunch is that they wouldn't be good for that.

Ask HN: What does the front end dev world need to make better applications?

I finished a side project web app recently and am about to come upon a chunk of free time before uni starts again. It struck me how difficult it was to do things like:- Make an animation performant (lots of CSS properties trigger paint or layout unexpectedly) - Make components with good keyboard accessibility (not just tabbing), common mobile gesture support, etc. - Do styling properly (CSS...

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Re:Instagram is shifting to videos – users aren't happy on Thursday July 28, 2022 @11:25AM (#32265597)
> Is it greed?

What did you expect from Facebook?

There are disputes about the accuracy of telomere length as a marker of aging, but it's great to see this kind of research advance.
Re:The CSS Behind Figma on Sunday July 24, 2022 @12:12PM (#32214808)
I'm pretty sure lichess doesn't do that. Even the chess board is done in the DOM.
Re:Ask HN: Is Google trying to frustrate Safari users? on Friday July 22, 2022 @01:17AM (#32188779)
Pages can only close windows they opened, so this is probably a browser bug. It seems unlikely anyway that Google would try to get you to switch browsers through strange intentional glitches rather than clear messages.
Re:Show HN: I'm building a browser-based DAW on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @03:21PM (#32170853)
> "Do it in a browser" is not interesting enough.

I disagree. DAWs are huge pieces of software to begin with and doing high-performance audio work in the browser would be very impressive.

Re:An SPA Alternative on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @12:40PM (#32154325)
Without any real restrictions? JavaScript is very restricted in what it can do. Most APIs that you'd expect to be gated behind a permission are gated behind a permission.
As stupid as the idea is I'm hoping it happens for this reason. Maybe people will realize the importance of truly owning their devices. It would be pretty ironic if that were to happen over TikTok, though.
Re:Snapchat for Web on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @10:07AM (#32151661)
Sure, but can it be done in software, or will it require a scanning tunneling microscope?
Re:Is WebAssembly magic performance pixie dust? (2021) on Thursday July 14, 2022 @06:33PM (#32102202)
That difference is what I'd be interested in anyway as a developer who focuses on PWAs (where the cost of chrome is paid for already). I'm trying to work out whether a WASM stack would help runtime performance, memory usage, and startup time, but based on these numbers it doesn't look so inspiring.

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