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Re:Are Any Words the Same in All Languages? on Friday September 08, 2023 @01:50AM (#37429882)
And it's not 'tatínek' (which is the 'soft' variant of the word) but táta...
Re:G9.js: Automatically Interactive Graphics on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @12:26PM (#37065047)
They do for me (Android, Firefox).
Re:Linear Programming in Python (2023) on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @06:37PM (#36779971)
* That is intended, the video is an introduction to LP.

* I use Fira Code, which makes certain symbol combinations as ligatures. Looking at it now, this is pretty awful to use on a website and confuses peolpe, I'll disable them.

Re:Linear Programming in Python (2023) on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @04:02PM (#36778349)
Thank you for the kind words, I am happy that you liked it :)!

The best way to support my work is through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/YTomS.

Re:Linear Programming in Python (2023) on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @03:28PM (#36777977)
Author here (and a long time HN lurker), really cool to see someone post this here :). As mentioned at the beginning, the article was created mostly as additional resources for my video about LP (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E72DWgKP_1Y), which I think is definitely worth a watch if you find this interesting!
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @09:02AM (#36599839)
https://slama.dev/

My little corner of the internet, filled with things that I personally find interesting. The posts are a mixture of lecture notes, additional resources for my YouTube videos and random things I didn't want to forget.

Re:DuckDuckGo had another record year on Monday December 27, 2021 @01:29PM (#29705189)
Or exclude it and improve it even further :).
Re:Show HN: Florodoro – A pomodoro timer that grows procedurally gener... on Friday February 12, 2021 @02:03PM (#26117221)
Glad to hear that! :)
Re:Show HN: Florodoro – A pomodoro timer that grows procedurally gener... on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @02:08PM (#26081330)
Hello HN!

I recently put together a small pomodoro timer that grows procedurally generated trees/flowers while you're focused. It is intended to motivate you to create a nice collection of plants by being focused and productive.

It's inspired by Forest on Android and written in Python using PyQt5.

I'd love to know what you think!

Re:Show HN: Grafátko – An interactive graph (algorithms) visualizer on Monday May 11, 2020 @02:05PM (#23145087)
Hello HN!

I just finished (re)writing an app for visualizing graphs and graph-related algorithms (for a Uni course of mine) and thought it was interesting enough to share here. I'd love to hear your feedback!

Re:Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock market on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @05:36PM (#22428198)
Care to explain?
Re:Show HN: Dark Patterns in Game Design on Friday September 13, 2019 @04:59AM (#20960377)
> I don't think there's anything dark about games being addictive. They should be, otherwise they're boring.

I don't think that's the case at all, since you'd be playing the game because you're addicted, not because you're having fun.

Why couldn't you enjoy a game without being addicted to it?

Re:Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye on Thursday August 08, 2019 @05:40AM (#20643013)
N. C
Re:Pirate Party MEP Elected Vice-President of EU Parliament on Friday July 05, 2019 @04:54PM (#20365822)
As a citizen of the Czech Republic, it's quite interesting seeing the outcome of the EU elections, since a lot of the people considered their campaign to be quite vague and overall not very good. I was personally a fan, because the alternatives were quite abysmal.
Re:Ask HN: What stack is your personal blog built on? on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @07:52AM (#19848563)
Jekyll!

Incredibly lightweight and simple to build! Still a WIP though.

www.slama.dev/

Re:Show HN: Graph Visualizer on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @04:41AM (#19672090)
Considering I made them up to be simple to use, that is definitely a good idea! I will take a look at it :).
Re:Robotics Simplified – a website for learning robotics on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @02:34AM (#19141730)
I'm glad you like it!

Yes - as I am a high school student myself, so my target audience is exactly the people you described.

I will look into the browser problem, performance testing is something I haven't payed enough attention to.

There is one interactive visualization in the Drive Control > Arcade Drive article, and I am planning on adding more, but interactive code is an absolutely amazing idea! I will definitely look into it.

Thanks so much for the advice and the bookmark!

Re:Robotics Simplified – a website for learning robotics on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @02:00AM (#19141606)
Hey everyone!

I’m the creator of the website and a former member of the FRC team 1391 (2018 - lead programmer and driver).

The website aims to explain topics from the field of robotics in a simple way.

It offers implementations (in Python) and illustrations of the discussed concepts, interactive visualizations (using P5.js), and is available offline as a PDF. It’s also open-source: https://github.com/xiaoxiae/Robotics-Simplified-Website

IT’S STILL A WIP, so the content is subject to change.

I would love to hear your thoughts on the project!

Re:A Strange Grid Reveals Hidden Connections Between Simple Numbers on Thursday February 07, 2019 @08:20AM (#19105000)
I have been tree and
Re:How Math’s Most Famous Proof Nearly Broke (2015) on Friday December 21, 2018 @07:02AM (#18732837)
That was quite an enjoyable read.

It's so interesting that a problem so simple to explain would require hundreds of pages of proof.

I'm really interested in whether the Collatz conjecture will be proven too.

Re:1K ZX Chess on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @11:44AM (#17918977)
I mean he is right, and it's even said in the article. It is an amazing piece of software, nobody's arguing against that, but it's not chess.