Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator
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Re: Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator
#2brilliant work, polished ui. although sometimes give wrong ranges for equations like 100/1~(200~2000)
Re: Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator
#3brilliant work, polished ui. although sometimes give wrong ranges for equations like 100/1~(200~2000)
Can you elaborate? What is the answer you’re getting and what answer would you expect?
Re: Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator
#4I perused the codebase but I'm unfamiliar with dart:
https://github.com/filiph/unsure/blob/master/lib/src/calcula...
I assume this is a montecarlo approach? (Not to start a flamewar, at least for us data scientists :) ).
Re: Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator
#5I perused the codebase but I'm unfamiliar with dart: https://github.com/filiph/unsure/blob/master/lib/src/calcula... I assume this is a montecarlo approach? (Not to start a flamewar, at least for us data scientists :) ).
Yes it is.
Re: Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator
#6This reminds me of https://www.getguesstimate.com/ , a probabilistic spreadsheet.
Re: Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator
#7Feature request: allow specifying the probability distribution. E.g.: ‘~’: normal, ‘_’: uniform, etc.
Re: Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator
#8This is terrific and it’s tempting to turn into a little python package. +1 for notation to say it’s ~20,2 to mean 18~22
Re: Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator
#9brilliant work, polished ui. although sometimes give wrong ranges for equations like 100/1~(200~2000)
How do you process this equation ? 100 divided by something from one to ...?
Re: Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator
#10Smol Show HN thread a few years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22630600