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Each of my kindles so far stopped working in about 2 years. I had 5 or 6.
Re:Fast Factorial Algorithms on Saturday May 23, 2026 @09:12AM (#48247376)
A cached map will do best if you actualy need a fast factorial. There are very little entries before the numbers become pointlessly big.
Re:I Miss Terry Pratchett on Saturday May 23, 2026 @09:05AM (#48247332)
That font is too annoying to read. Probably fine for AIs thou.
Re:Metro stop is Ancient Rome's new attraction on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @09:43AM (#47778869)
In Sofia we have roman ruins everywhere around metro stations https://archaeology-travel.com/bulgaria/serdika-ii-metro-sta...
I think my reaction is mostly puzzlement. I can see a sensible point or several in the article, but I was not always sure how big a point the author was trying to make.

At the narrower level, it seems to be saying that benchmarks are easier to interpret when you know what they really are. That makes sense. If a circuit is known to be a multiplier, that tells you more than if it is just called `c6288`.

That is also why I thought of Python benchmarks. In something like `pyperformance`, names such as `json_loads`, `python_startup`, or `nbody` already tell you something about the workload. So when you compare results, you have a better sense of what kind of task a system is doing well on. But so what? It is just benchmarks. They don't guarantee anything about anything anyway.

What made it harder for me to follow was that this fairly modest point is wrapped in a lot of jokes and swipes about AI and corporate AI language. Some of that is funny, but it also made me less sure what the main point was supposed to be. Was the article really about benchmark interpretation, or was that mostly a vehicle for making a broader point about AI hype and technical understanding?

So I do think there is a real point in there. I just found it slightly hard to separate that point from the style and the jokes.

Re:Airbus is preparing two uncrewed combat aircraft on Sunday March 15, 2026 @12:58AM (#47384497)
I misread “uncrewed” as “unscrewed” and for a moment this became a much stranger, better aerospace story. Not autonomous aircraft, but aircraft apparently liberated from screws. A future of pilotless aircraft is plausible enough; a future of screwless aircraft is much weirder.
Re:Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @11:46PM (#46372550)
That diagram is rather bad at what it tries to do. Those are also historically and phonetically the same: Λ Л Δ Д Κ К The first Cyrillic alphabet was using the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic_script , curiously created by Saint Cyril, but then people found it was too difficult, so someone in the Preslav Literary School in the First Bulgarian Empire mashed up Glagolitic, Greek and Latin to create the new Cyrillic (probably naming it as a sorry to Cyril for butchering his nice unique alphabet).
Re:Immersa: Open-source Web-based 3D Presentation Tool on Saturday December 20, 2025 @10:07AM (#46336702)
You are a presentation tool!
"VMware will end support for version 8.0 of its products on October 11, 2027, just a few weeks after the end of the two-year period Tan mentioned. The Register often hears that organizations contemplating a move away from VMware, or reducing their use of the product, have circled that date on their calendars as a deadline for migration projects to alternative platforms."
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2024) on Friday August 02, 2024 @01:11AM (#41136267)
SEEKING WORK | Sofia, Bulgaria | Remote | Python, Django, C++, Java, SQL, Mathematics, Pandas, Airflow, Web Scraping, PySpark, BigQuery

- Databases - PostgreSQL, Oracle

- Mathematics, Numerical methods, Computational 2D and 3D geometry

I have my own EU VAT registered Ltd. company. Contact ipfr at astrei.com

To be or not to be, this is a serious question.
Re:Piano on Paper on Saturday March 09, 2024 @12:45AM (#39649688)
Where is the file touch_detection_model.h5?
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2024) on Friday February 02, 2024 @12:10AM (#39225290)
SEEKING WORK | Sofia, Bulgaria | Remote Python, C++, Java, SQL, Mathematics, Pandas, Airflow, Web Scraping, PySpark, BigQuery Experience with: - Working with big data

- Creating booking engines for the online travel industry

- Implementing server side logic and mathematics for casino games, creating simulations.

- Programming Bots for monitoring and data collecting

- Databases - PostgreSQL, Oracle

- Data processing, migrations, statistical analysis, machine learning

- Mathematics, Numerical methods, Computational 2D and 3D geometry

I have my own EU VAT registered Ltd. company. Contact ipfr at astrei.com

Re:Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers on Thursday April 13, 2023 @10:35AM (#35556116)
How to remember the word phind? Programming Hints Index maybe.
Re:Fake Books on Monday October 24, 2022 @02:13AM (#33313441)
What actually surprises me is that the author bought 11 paper books from Amazon about NFTs. You really need 11 books to understand or write about a single concept? It is a highly controversial ongoing topic. Those 11 books most likely become obsolete exactly on the day after they were written.

Good catch on the one fake book! But I am surprised it was only one. Maybe the author started from that one and will write about the others later.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2020) on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @12:54AM (#24046730)
SEEKING WORK | Sofia, Bulgaria | Remote Python, C++, Java, SQL, Mathematics, Jupyter notebook, Pandas Experience with:

- Creating booking engines for the online travel industry

- Implementing server side logic and mathematics for casino games, creating simulations.

- Programming Bots for monitoring and data collecting

- Databases - PostgreSQL, Oracle

- Data processing, migrations, statistical analysis, machine learning

- Mathematics, Numerical methods, Computational 2D and 3D geometry

- Creating Windows software for the metrology industry

I have my own EU VAT registered Ltd. company. Contact ipfr at astrei.com

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2020) on Monday June 01, 2020 @01:51PM (#23381450)
SEEKING WORK | Sofia, Bulgaria | Remote Python, C++, Java, SQL, Mathematics

Experience with:

- Creating booking engines for the online travel industry

- Implementing server side logic and mathematics for casino games, creating simulations.

- Programming Bots for monitoring and data collecting

- Databases - PostgreSQL, Oracle

- Data processing, migrations, statistical analysis, machine learning

- Mathematics, Numerical methods, Computational 2D and 3D geometry

- Creating Windows software for the metrology industry

I have my own EU VAT registered Ltd. company. Contact ipfr at astrei.com

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (February 2020) on Monday February 03, 2020 @02:12PM (#22227789)
SEEKING WORK | Sofia, Bulgaria | Remote

Python, C++, Java, SQL, Mathematics

Experience with:

- Creating booking engines for the online travel industry

- Implementing server side logic and mathematics for casino games, creating simulations.

- Programming Bots for monitoring and data collecting

- Databases - PostgreSQL, Oracle

- Data processing, migrations, statistical analysis, machine learning

- Mathematics, Numerical methods, Computational 2D and 3D geometry

- Creating Windows software for the metrology industry

I have my own EU VAT registered Ltd. company. Contact ipfr at astrei.com

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2019) on Monday December 02, 2019 @10:43PM (#21689735)
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, C++, Java, DB, mathematics, Linux

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ivan-peev-63482a101

Email: ipfr at astrei.com

Experience with:

- Creating booking engines for the online travel industry -

- Implementing server side logic and mathematics for casino games, creating simulations.

- Programming Bots for monitoring and data collecting

- Databases - PostgreSQL, Oracle

- Data processing, migrations, statistical analysis, machine learning

- Mathematics, Numerical methods, Computational 2D and 3D geometry

- Creating Linux and Windows software for the metrology industry

Have an EU VAT registered company.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (December 2019) on Monday December 02, 2019 @10:42PM (#21689731)
SEEKING WORK | Sofia, Bulgaria | Remote

Python, C++, Java, SQL, DB

Experience with: - Creating booking engines for the online travel industry

- Implementing server side logic and mathematics for casino games, creating simulations.

- Programming Bots for monitoring and data collecting

- Databases - PostgreSQL, Oracle

- Data processing, migrations, statistical analysis, machine learning

- Mathematics, Numerical methods, Computational 2D and 3D geometry

- Creating Windows software for the metrology industry

An EU VAT registered company. Contact ipfr at astrei.com

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2019) on Saturday November 02, 2019 @04:50AM (#21426592)
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, C++, Java, DB, mathematics, Linux

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ivan-peev-63482a101

Email: ipfr at astrei.com

Experience with:

- Creating booking engines for the online travel industry -

- Implementing server side logic and mathematics for casino games, creating simulations.

- Programming Bots for monitoring and data collecting

- Databases - PostgreSQL, Oracle

- Data processing, migrations, statistical analysis, machine learning

- Mathematics, Numerical methods, Computational 2D and 3D geometry

- Creating Linux and Windows software for the metrology industry

Have an EU VAT registered company.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (November 2019) on Friday November 01, 2019 @01:37PM (#21421569)
SEEKING WORK | Sofia, Bulgaria | Remote

Python, C++, Java, DB

Experience with: - Creating booking engines for the online travel industry -

- Implementing server side logic and mathematics for casino games, creating simulations.

- Programming Bots for monitoring and data collecting

- Databases - PostgreSQL, Oracle

- Data processing, migrations, statistical analysis, machine learning

- Mathematics, Numerical methods, Computational 2D and 3D geometry

- Creating Windows software for the metrology industry

An EU VAT registered company. Contact ipfr at astrei.com

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