wayoverthecloud (u/wayoverthecloud)

wayoverthecloud commented on Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business projectionlab.com/blog/we... · Posted by u/jonkuipers

xyzzy9563 · 7 months ago

I only have a product that makes $6k per month, but from my point of view, the validation is how many paying users sign up per day. Even one per day can add up. Hope this helps.

wayoverthecloud · 7 months ago

Could you share what worked for you? Is it B2B/b2c? I guess that matters too for the type of marketing to focus on?

wayoverthecloud commented on Finding Flow: Escaping digital distractions through deep work and slow living ssp.sh/blog/finding-flow/... · Posted by u/articsputnik

wayoverthecloud · a year ago

On a side note, I find that this flow state has it's addiction of it's own. I find myself doing whatever I can to find time for it. I feel like the reason mathematicians, physicists and artists of the past produced such great results is, they found the flow state so addictive, more addictive than balancing your health or family life, and thus dedicated almost entirety of their lives on it. Just have to be careful on that one. After all, our purpose is (I think) is not just working.

wayoverthecloud commented on The Unicorn Boom Is Over, and Startups Are Getting Desperate bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/kjhughes

scythmic_waves · a year ago

As someone working in a niche area, I can confirm. It's shocking how little tech adoption there is in my industry. Plenty of low hanging fruit.

However I still sympathize with the parent comment. The niche-industry-exception state of affairs will become less true over time. And then you're left with the same set of incentives (minus dedicated hobbyists).

wayoverthecloud · a year ago

Without going into too much details, could you share some niche areas? And what kind of tech adoption are missing?

wayoverthecloud commented on Show HN: Turn Screenshots into Designs Instantly getklippy.com... · Posted by u/sidebread

sidebread · a year ago

I actually built it on CustomTkinter in Python, as that was a language I already know.

wayoverthecloud · a year ago

Impressive for CustomTkinter. Well done with the UI design.

wayoverthecloud commented on Ask HN: PhDs/students, how do you come up with viable problems/solutions? · Posted by u/wayoverthecloud

verdverm · a year ago

Is there a paper / technique that interests you from the background research / reading?

Try reproducing it and then working on their future work paragraph

For me, I was at the same guest lecture as my future advisor was at. When I took a class with him, I asked him what research he did. After rattling a bunch of things off and seeing my lack of interest, he asked me "did you see the talk about evolving equations, want to work on that?" I replied "yes" and "yes!"

After spending a couple of years trying to reproduce and scale these systems (my advisor worked in related things), I grew frustrated with the prevailing techniques. So we set about trying to solve the same problem with the restriction that it should be a deterministic algorithm. This set me on my path to novel research and results

wayoverthecloud · a year ago

Thanks. Yeah there are papers that I am interested on, in fact, I am interested on too many things at once which doesn't help. Also, I think I am always thinking of solving bigger problems where it's hard to make progress on.

Also, since you mentioned scaling systems and equations, are you by any chance working on numerical linear algebra stuffs like iterative solvers etc.? MPI/HPC etc? If so, I am in HPC as well.

wayoverthecloud commented on Italy's privacy regulator goes after DeepSeek politico.eu/article/italy... · Posted by u/thm

wayoverthecloud · a year ago

Considering EU is so far behind on AI and tech as a whole, I hope they see this an opportunity to develop something of their own with better data privacy or whatever suits their boat(I don't know how though). I am really rooting for EU and their economy to bounce back. The world desperately needs a balance from all sides.

wayoverthecloud commented on C is not suited to SIMD (2019) blog.vmchale.com/article/... · Posted by u/zetalyrae

woooooo · a year ago

Not in the article, but I've read that the way C does pointers, a single address with length implicit, makes it hard for compilers to assert that 2 arrays don't overlap/alias and this is an obstacle for generating SIMD instructions.

wayoverthecloud · a year ago

In C++ there is the align_alloc specificier. https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/memory/aligned_alloc

Not sure for C

wayoverthecloud commented on Emotional support across adulthood: A 60-year study of men’s social networks psypost.org/men-lose-half... · Posted by u/clockworksoul

wayoverthecloud · a year ago

I am doing my PhD and occasionally my supervisor and I come across papers that don't have any meaningful results/statistics but you gotta publish somehow. Like, they conclude with "We observed that the latency can be reduced by 2x-300x." I feel like the group that did this research spent a decade, and their supervisor was like, well, we gotta publish something. Choose an age interval that fits the whole data. 30-90.