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mahalexon The Rising Sea: Foundations of Algebraic Geometry Notes

“Notes” is short for “lecture notes” and has nothing to do with size.

mahalexon Architecting large software projects [video]

Is there an active community of people using Python 2 and building things with it? Meanwhile, there are plenty of actively maintained compilers for C89.

mahalexon Architecting large software projects [video]

> languages like Python & Javascript have been around forever, support for them isn't going away

??? Python 2 went out of support five years ago.

mahalexon Standard Ebooks

Modern versions of e.g. Tolstoy's "War and Peace" could not be in Standard Ebooks. So easiest to not carry any translations?

mahalexon Standard Ebooks

> Most (nearly all?) religious texts of major world religions were originally written in languages other than English, and so if SE were to try to host those texts the site would have to make an editorial call about which translations of those texts are the "best."

The site already hosts a number of works that were originally written in languages other than English, and yet it had no problems making an editorial call about which translations of those texts are the "best." The obvious solution would be to just allowing multiple translations of foreign-language books.

mahalexon Ask HN: Top 10 Timeless Software Books That ChangedLife as Software Engineer?

Right, because ChatGPT is never wrong.

mahalexon What does and doesn't matter about Apple shooting their October event on iPhone

> they decided that the iPhone 15 Pro was going to be used to film the keynote for the iPhone 15 Pro

And they didn’t do that: as far as we know, the keynote for the iPhone 15 Pro was not shot with iPhone 15 Pro.

mahalexon A linear algebra trick for computing Fibonacci numbers fast

Note that “Oren and Patashnik” is one person named Oren Patashnik.

mahalexon TypeChat

As with anything output by “AI”: you don’t.

mahalexon TypeChat

That’s what makes it even more embarrassing.

mahalexon TypeChat

So, it's a thing that appends "please format your response as the following JSON" to the prompt", then validates the actual response against the schema, all in a "while (true)" loop (literally) until it succeeds. This unbelievable achievement is a work of seven people (authors of the blog post).

Honestly, this is getting beyond embarrassing. How is this the world we live in?

mahalexon Tell HN: 2^4 == 4^2, extended to rationals

I wouldn’t call it extremely complicated; it is much simpler than the proof of FLT.

mahalexon Tell HN: 2^4 == 4^2, extended to rationals

Because Catalan’s conjecture.

mahalexon Tell HN: 2^4 == 4^2, extended to rationals

If we exclude 0, the only solutions are 2^1 = 1^2 + 1 and 3^2 = 2^3 + 1