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Re: Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators

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Post by adi_hn07 »

noduerme wrote: post #28

This is great. I really think that having a theme to iterate on is the best way of revisiting coding/math skills and learning new ones. And building things from scratch is so much more rewarding than snapping parts together. My free time right now is trying to rewrite 90s screensavers down to the rasterizer level, without consulting anything for how to do stuff like antialiasing. One little note, just checking out yo…

Thanks a lot for the feedback! I have fixed the issue, please let me know if you want any further changes.

Re: Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators

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Post by adi_hn07 »

pkdpic wrote: post #99

Just a side question but "while the rest of the world builds ai systems" makes me curious about what rough percentage of software engineers out there are working directly on building AI systems, even just on a front end level. Assuming there's not an easily access exact percentage, just curious what people's perceptions are.

Yup, I'm curious about this as well, although on social media it seems as if everyone is working on AI Agents or I'm in an AI bubble.

Re: Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators

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Post by adi_hn07 »

kjhughes wrote: post #97

Suggestions: - Fix your certs to not lose traffic when Chrome (at least at the default security level) puts up a scary "Your connection is not private" warning for net::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID and requires an override to proceed to your site. - Fix whatever reputation damage has caused you to be classified as a phishing site: https://phish.opendns.com/main?url=www.calcverse.live

This is really strange, what can I do to resolve this? My SSL cert is valid. My site doesn't collect or store any sensitive information at all.

Re: Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators

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Post by amonith »

pkdpic wrote: post #99

Just a side question but "while the rest of the world builds ai systems" makes me curious about what rough percentage of software engineers out there are working directly on building AI systems, even just on a front end level. Assuming there's not an easily access exact percentage, just curious what people's perceptions are.

Probably less than a year before although be aware that "ai systems" in this context most likely also means so called "gpt wrappers" (RAG systems, integrations etc.). Small data point: the software house I work for created a lot of those in 2024 because a lot of clients asked for it. However, clients quickly realized that it is not as quick and cheap as promised by AI companies and it requires a lot of work on their side to clean their data.

Re: Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators

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Post by RandomDistort »

adi_hn07 wrote: post #104
kjhughes wrote: post #97

Suggestions: - Fix your certs to not lose traffic when Chrome (at least at the default security level) puts up a scary "Your connection is not private" warning for net::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID and requires an override to proceed to your site. - Fix whatever reputation damage has caused you to be classified as a phishing site: https://phish.opendns.com/main?url=www.calcverse.live

This is really strange, what can I do to resolve this? My SSL cert is valid. My site doesn't collect or store any sensitive information at all.

I doubt the cert issue is on your end, it appears whenever OpenDNS (Cisco Umbrella) tries to intercept any site when it blocks it.

Re: Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators

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Post by anshumankmr »

4887d30omd8 wrote: post #93
megadata wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To anyone thinking of starting running but either doesn't know where to start or thinks he can't do it, look up "couch to 5k". It's a free NHS audio program that guides your phase so that in 9 weeks you can do a 5k run.

I can second this. That's the program I started with. I'm now training for a half marathon using https://www.baa.org/races/baa-half-marathon/train/leveltwo and I've shaved like a minute off my mile pace while increasing my milage from 6 mile runs to 12 mile runs. There's lots of programs for running and most of them seem good for improving performance.

No strength training in this?? I have been training legs for years along with runs (treadmill runs/uphill runs etc)... only problem my timing for the half marathon has gone down from 2h35 to 2h38 and then I had an accident last year which made me unable to run most of the second half of last year which has made things a lot tougher for me to train :(

Re: Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators

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Post by jgorn »

I have a question about calculator building, if anyone has a suggestion. My industry revolves around quite complicated calculators, with anywhere from 10 to 50 data inputs - and the result are large projection tables and charts.

These still live in excel, but I would love to move then into a web app.

Is there a best practice way to go about this? I've tried basic html forms that pass to python for the number crunching (there are optimisations and Monte Carlos). But it gets so messy as the number of input fields increase. Does a tool exist to simplify this process?

Re: Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators

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Post by robertclaus »

jgorn wrote: post #109

I have a question about calculator building, if anyone has a suggestion. My industry revolves around quite complicated calculators, with anywhere from 10 to 50 data inputs - and the result are large projection tables and charts. These still live in excel, but I would love to move then into a web app. Is there a best practice way to go about this? I've tried basic html forms that pass to python for the number crunchin…

Something like Dash or Streamlit might be useful to manage an App like this.
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