Ask HN: What is the best LLM for consumer grade hardware?

Just to motivate your team: a mathematician just became the President of Romania this month - https://www.imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=1571 :-)

idlip · 1d ago

This is nice. You can spread the word to r/bangalore and related subs. But sure small communities sound like more fun than a big one.

Are many of them programmers/techie or academicians?

viveknathani_ · 1d ago

hey thanks! for now, a lot of them have some sort of a tech background

ivan_ah · 1d ago

Nice to see adults (re)learning math. It's one of the rare subjects that are guaranteed to provide "knowledge buzz" and also widely applicable.

<shameless plug>For other adults interested in learning math, check out my (nonfree) book here: https://noBSmath.com/ PDF preview and sample chapter: https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSmath_v5_previe... I also have a longer book that includes calculus and physics (cf. links in profile). </shameless plug>

ivan_ah · 1d ago

Here are the concept maps from the books that might be interesting for anyone learning these topics:

- https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/math_concepts.p...

- https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/math_and_physic...

- https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/linear_algebra_...

thuruv · 10h ago

Kudos., Personalizing problems to familiar places hitting a nostalgic sweet spot for me.. Reminds me how much fun it used to be and creative math gets when you’re bouncing ideas around..

Avicebron · 1d ago

I don't know why but actually rendering the equations (mathjax? didn't check) is such an eye-catching way to see those problems in a feed like that, and having it almost mimic HN with a comment section is awesome. This is super cool!

ping00 · 23h ago

Good luck Vivek, this looks really nice! I was in Bangalore for the first time this Feb and had a great time. You should check out Mecca cafe, it's thoda grimy but a total vibe.

mtts · 1d ago

Super cool! Where did you get the problems from?

trueismywork · 14h ago

Rope in people from TIFR and IISC and ISI, they have a lot of activities going on like this.

ashutosh-mishra · 22h ago

Best! Great way to connect with interesting people!

What's your criteria for letting people in? Like what should be the minimum level of maths skills they should already have?

wanderingmind · 22h ago

Awesome initiative. For people not physically in Bangalore, maybe start a discord and we can asynchronously try to work through problems and get support

nxobject · 1d ago

What a fantastic idea – I know I got the most out of my college math classes collaborating on homework – well, I really only survived because of collaboration. Learning math has been inseparable from collaboration since Ethen.

seanhunter · 1d ago

As someone who is studying maths myself I absolutely love this- What a great idea.

viveknathani_ · 1d ago

hey thanks!

dmd · 1d ago

No matter how many times I do number 20, I end up with 615. Am I wrong, or is the solution sheet wrong?

random_coder · 18h ago

I think you're right and the given answer of 596 is wrong. It's 380 m-w, 190 m-m, 45 w-w handshakes, so 615 in total.

dmd · 14h ago

Yeah. It's not even the only wrong answer on the page, which is troubling.

alecst · 1d ago

Love this. Anyone know of something similar in NYC? Casual, unpretentious math club?

kylehotchkiss · 1d ago

This looks like a really great way to make some new friends and challenge each other. Have fun!!

agcat · 1d ago

Love the idea. All the best!

viveknathani_ · 1d ago

thanks!

tines · 1d ago

Anything like this in Austin?

vivzkestrel · 1d ago

if you guys ever do this in mumbai, i ll happily join ya

viveknathani_ · 1d ago

sure thing, currently figuring out ways to scale, thanks!

dgfitz · 1d ago

Why has this been on the front page all day?

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