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by fouronnes3 10mo ago
That's great feedback, thanks! I agree with you, but I don't want to flip the default because this is an experiment I made for fun, and the whole point is to lean in to the chaos a little bit. In a serious product the UX would def
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by fouronnes3 10mo ago
You can do this with bidicalc already! You just have to model the problem correctly. If you expect the ratio to remain constant, what you actually want is a problem with a single free variable: the scale. A1 = 1.0 // t
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by fouronnes3 10mo ago
Interesting, thanks! I had never heard of this. Yes, bidicalc is much more advanced. You can update any value of an arbitrary dependency graph of cells.
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by fouronnes3 10mo ago
Why do you think that 6+8 is a better solution than 7+7?
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by fouronnes3 10mo ago
The actual heuristic used to pick a solution from an infinite solution subspace is a bit too complex to explain in a comment. I really need a blackboard :D The main goal was actually to find a solution, any solution at all, and fast. I wan
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by fouronnes3 10mo ago
I wasn't aware of this chapter, but I did use constraint propagation for the solver (among other things), thanks!
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by fouronnes3 10mo ago
You can do it and it is explained, actually. Use # as a prefix to indicate a constant, e.g.: #50 will be a constant and not a variable. In the future I'd like to support more user input constraints, in particular domain constraints for
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by fouronnes3 10mo ago
Jokes aside, let's say someone does figure out how to break RSA over a weekend project. The evil options are easy to come up with, but what is the actually responsible, ethical, thing to do? Never tell anyone?
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by fouronnes3 10mo ago
Never used any of those, so I don't know! I'd be curious to read a comparison from anyone who knows about them. I think what's pretty unique about the bidicalc solver that I made is that it does not depend on the previous inp
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by fouronnes3 10mo ago
Yes! I'd really like to make something graphical in this same idea space next. See g9.js for example, or parametric CAD software like FredCAD which kinda does what you said.
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by fouronnes3 10mo ago
That's an interesting example I hadn't thought of. Probably? I'll need to try it. Thank you for the suggestion! I think one issue will be that trig functions are kinda weird because they are non-injective. So they work but th
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by fouronnes3 10mo ago
Interesting. Note that the backwards solver of bidicalc does not use the previous input values of variables at all.
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by fouronnes3 10mo ago
You can actually solve fifth order polynomials with bidicalc! But it's a numerical solution, not an algebraic one, so no Fields medal.
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by fouronnes3 10mo ago
Currently the solver does not use the previous values of inputs at all when solving. But it could use it in some cases as a heuristic I guess, yes!
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by fouronnes3 10mo ago
Constants are supported, use # as a prefix, e.g.; #50. I'd like to add more constraints in the future like a domain constraint for variables.
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by fouronnes3 10mo ago
I do like g9! It was a strong inspiration for bidicalc actually!
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by fouronnes3 10mo ago
I made this mostly as a fun challenge :) You are right that there is some arbitrariness involved when picking a solution, however it's a bit more subtle than that. Let's say our problem has N free variables. Step 1 is finding the
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Bidicalc: A Bidirectional Calculator(victorpoughon.github.io)
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by fouronnes3 10mo ago
I want to read a short scify story set in 2150 about how, mysteriously, no one has been able to train a better LLM for 125 years. The binary weights are studied with unbelievably advanced quantum computers but no one can really train a new
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Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards(victorpoughon.github.io)
252 points by fouronnes3 10mo ago|116 comments
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by fouronnes3 10mo ago
Not sure why the FSF or any other organization hasn't released a license like this years ago already.
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by fouronnes3 11mo ago
Surely in this case the problem is a technical one, and with more work towards a better security model and practices we can have the best of both worlds, no?
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by fouronnes3 11mo ago
I guess the true endgame of AI products is naming them. We still have quite a way to go.
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by fouronnes3 11mo ago
Tomorrow on HN: Polishing the moon surface
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by fouronnes3 11mo ago
I don't see how the yearly tech support I do with my parents at Christmas will not one day converge to an outright ban of the internet. I am now demoing the level of sofistication of AI powered scams, telling them that it is now entire
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by fouronnes3 11mo ago
Very cool! This is also known as signed distance function in computer graphics, or implicit form equations in maths.
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by fouronnes3 11mo ago
I'm pretty sure they know, and that's what makes it funny. There's an entire genre of internet humor based on using incorrect (because of homophone/homograph words) english-to-french translation. For example saying &quot
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by fouronnes3 11mo ago
Excel is a good one, another one is World of Warcraft macros which depend on the client language because Blizzard is too good at i18n and they translated spell names which are used as spell identifiers in the UX lua code.
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by fouronnes3 11mo ago
Yes we do this while learning programming. Then it quickly becomes a sign of being a novice programmer that we look down on.
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by fouronnes3 11mo ago
As a native french speaker, I feel so uneasy reading source code in french. It feels very very uncanny. I've often wondered if English native speakers feel the same when reading normal source code which is always in English. They proba

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