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

#32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Explained in a terrible way, it's integrals for interest if "compound daily/monthly/yearly" was an estimation using discrete intervals

you didn't really improve by hiding behind "integrals"; this is why so many kids are afraid of calculus.

The explanation worked for me. I learned basic calculus but didn't know about continual compounding interest.

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

#34

One calculator I’ve come to love over the years is Numi. I keep it open all day every day and it does a pretty good job of bridging the gap between the typical skewmorphic calculator app and scilab or python. It’s a text based calculator that allows you to declare variables and do unit and base conversions and save and load your work. No graphing though unfortunately and i dont think it really has much in the way of…

I also love numi on my mac! a similar online alternative is https://numbr.dev/

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

#36
A suggestion for your speed converter: different sports use different units which your converter could support as well.

A few examples:

Running usually measures pace in minutes per kilometer or mile. That will be extra fun for you since it wouldn't be 4.33333 min/km but would be written as sth like 4:20 min/km.

Swimming uses min/100m or sec/100m.

Rowing uses min/500m.

If you add these then I'd be using this a lot!

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

#39
post #3

While the world does AI I learn assembly

I really feel this, and I wonder whether it's us humans trying to reaffirm our higher reasoning, or whether it's a regression to trying to recapture a simpler age.

Both, probably.
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