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Kite is saying farewell and open-sourcing its code
Kite is saying farewell and open-sourcing its code
Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
I'll start. For me, I think the most impactful thing I've ever built was an internal application for a FX trading desk that eventually went on to handle billions in daily trades.<p>It didn't use any fancy frameworks, just plain old CRUD on Java.
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Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?
Sometimes it takes a book or a course (or explanation from a mentor) for a topic to finally click for you that you were struggling with for a long time.<p>For me, it was Stanford's EE261 course that made Fourier Transform click for me. Here is the link: <a href="https://see.stanford.edu/course/ee261" rel="nofollow">https://see.stanford.edu/course/ee261</a><p>Similarly for deep learning it was fast.ai courses.<p>For programming it was How to Design Programs at www.htdp.org.<p>Your topic of choice may be anything, not necessarily CS.
Crypto exchange AAX suspends withdrawals
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FTX to file for U.S. bankruptcy, CEO resigns
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Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
Meta lays off 11,000 people
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Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang
Yitang Zhang, the mathematician behind the 2013 breakthrough on bounded gaps in primes, posted to the arxiv today a result which (if correct) comes close to proving the nonexistence of Landau--Siegel zeros: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.02515" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.02515</a>.<p>To give a sense of the scale of this claim: If correct, Zhang's work is the most significant progress towards the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis in a century. Moreover, I think this result would not only be a more significant advance than Zhang's previous breakthrough, but also constitute a larger leap for number theory than Wiles' 1994 proof of Fermat's Last Theorem (which was, in my opinion, the greatest single achievement by an individual mathematician in the 20th century).<p>Some discussion / explanation of Siegel zeros and Zhang's claim can be found here:<p><a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/y93a86/eliundergraduate_the_hype_around_yitang_zhangs/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/y93a86/eliundergradua...</a><p><a href="https://mathoverflow.net/questions/433949/consequences-resulting-from-yitang-zhangs-latest-claimed-results-on-landau-sieg" rel="nofollow">https://mathoverflow.net/questions/433949/consequences-resul...</a><p>An account of Zhang's remarkable story (and his previous breakthrough) can be found here. Famously, prior to his breakthrough, he worked at Subway and lived in his car:<p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty" rel="nofollow">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty</a>