Mastodawn

N-gated Hacker News Aug 28, 2025

🤔 So, some guy who admits he has zero experience with AI 🤖 is now an expert on how #OpenAI and #Anthropic might be burning money faster than a pyromaniac at a bonfire. 🔥 But fear not, his "napkin math" 📝 is here to save the day, because, you know, doodles in the margins have never led anyone astray! 🌟
https://martinalderson.com/posts/are-openai-and-anthropic-really-losing-money-on-inference/ #AIexperts #napkinmath #techhumor #moneyburn #HackerNews #ngated

Are OpenAI and Anthropic Really Losing Money on Inference?

Martin Alderson

N-gated Hacker News May 23, 2025

👃✨ In today's groundbreaking revelation, we discover that each breath contains a molecule of Caesar's ancient #halitosis. 🤢 Who knew that Fermi estimation and "napkin math" could make history so... *inhalable*? 📜💨
https://charliesabino.com/caesars-last-breath/ #ancienthistory #science #FermiEstimation #napkinmath #HackerNews #ngated

Caesar's Last Breath

How many molecules from Caesar’s last breath do we inhale with each breath we take? Shockingly, the answer is about one molecule—we actually share breaths w...

Charlie Sabino

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Gaurav Rodrigues May 12, 2025

This is Wild!!

#TulipFestival #BurnsideFarms #MiddleClassMindset #NapkinMath #RealBusiness #EventsThatPrint #MillionDollarMonth #NoCodeJustCash #FlowersAndFinance #WeekendEconomy #LocalGoldmine #FarmLifeFlex #PopUpProfit #SeasonalWins #SpringStack #SmartOperators #SideHustleToEmpire #NatureAsAService #CashFlowCulture #MiddleAmericaMoney #TulipTok #BusinessIdeas

Hacker News Apr 15, 2025

Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator

https://filiph.github.io/unsure/

#HackerNews #UnsureCalculator #probabilisticCalculator #techInnovation #HackerNews #tools #napkinMath

Unsure Calculator

The Unsure Calculator is an online tool that lets you calculate with numbers you’re not sure about.

N-gated Hacker News Mar 21, 2025

🚀 Behold the Napkin Math #Tool, where the universe is reduced to a series of napkin scribbles, dividing humanity into laughably vague categories. 🤔 From "individual person" to "Facebook users," this revolutionary tool promises to change the way you pretend to understand anything. 📊 Because who needs precision when you have a napkin and some numbers? 🤦‍♂️
https://taylor.town/napkin-math #NapkinMath #Humor #Technology #Innovation #SocialMedia #HackerNews #ngated

Napkin Math Tool

Logarithmic tables for estimations.

Hacker News Mar 21, 2025

Napkin Math Tool

https://taylor.town/napkin-math

#HackerNews #NapkinMath #NapkinMathTool #MathTools #Productivity #Hacks #HackerNews

Napkin Math Tool

Logarithmic tables for estimations.

Lorraine Apr 1, 2024

https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/king-charles-funeral-plans-unveiled-amid-his-cancer-battle/

although it didn’t seem logical to me, suspected it was pancreatic cancer based on region of inquiry

My dad & my uncle at 72 rare form & 75 common form respectively, died of pancreatic cancer 6 months to the day from each other

It was not pretty & 8-12 months from Dx to death

They however survived the🇰🇷🇰🇵war. My dad told me they would powder the kids in DDT head to toe to de-louse😱. My dad’s diet was veritable hippie-esque vs my uncle who ate🍰🐄& drank Diet Coke for decades

Charles OTOH lived a lifelong life of privilege & is known for his organic food farming practices etc plus his elders lived to nearly 100..

-25 to -30 years off predicted lifespan is what we estimated 2 years ago #napkinMath
@jmcrookston

King Charles’ Funeral Plans Unveiled Amid His Cancer Battle

King Charles III’s funeral plans have been unveiled amid his battle with pancreatic cancer, and the palace is ready to put Operation Menai Bridge in place.

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Lorraine Feb 28, 2023

@ZeroCovidColin

https://zeroes.ca/@radsci/109389751056227187

If they had data missing from NY… probably also from other places too

Recall myself flipping out during that time looking at South Korea since they were at the time testing & based on population differences it was 25x? But🇰🇷was still masking… so 44x😳 sadly makes complete sense

Got to go find my #napkinMath

But hey, EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY is doing what NY did 3/2022

I’m done. I can’t. F**k this.

Ely Rabani (@[email protected])

@Lorrrraaaaine https://mbcolli.shinyapps.io/SARS2EWSP/ via https://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/wastewater.htm Also, http://publichealth.verily.com/ tracks SARS2, MPXV, RSV & influenza in many locations. My complaint is the lag time & frequency could ipmrove.

zeroes.ca

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Lorraine Jan 30, 2023

@Njord @tomchappell
My #napkinMath friend! Best term introduction ever:)

Think what’s important to note here is the amount of time it takes to get infected has gone from Wild strain approx 10-15 minutes to now far far less than 1 minute #viralDose

observation of acquaintances it appears there is some sort of very temporary #immunity but my belief is they’ve constant infections until very mutated #variant makes them visibly ill again

this is no way to live💔