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by BenoitP 4y ago
I'm wondering since GPUs keep getting more performant, is there a middle ground between CPU and GPU that would still get performance increases? In my understanding GPUs do mostly parallel worloads: SIMD with limited code size, operatin
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I'll go against the question since I believe this is about elevating one's thinking and not merely about books. Just like learning the math theorem is practically worthless without doing the exercises (at least to me), I'll a
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> What I didn't like is reactive > Helidon Nima might be a saviour to me Well, Helidon Nima is getting a Loom-based implementation; so you'll get to keep performance without the reactive headaches.
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Thanks for this resource!
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Winding numbers using a Cauchy integral, with WebGL(benoit.paris)
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SEEKING WORK | Paris, France | Remote --------------------------- Machine learning engineer, specialized in Explainable AI / ML. 13 years professional coding experience, 24 years personal. Recent Highlights: * Implementation in Spark&#
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by BenoitP 4y ago
Machine learning engineer, specialized in Explainable AI / ML. 13 years professional coding experience, 24 years personal. Recent Highlights: * Implementation in Spark/Scala of treeinterpreter, currently used in production * Parti
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> If you do any kind of dynamic SQL it can get pretty gnarly though This can be addressed with typesafe SQL-builders like jooq [1]. I got an OLAP application with plenty of gnarly SQL broken up in individual business rules. The best is t
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by BenoitP 4y ago
To all people scared of density on here: Paris is one of the highest density cities in the world [1], and we're doing just fine. We even have a lot of room for tourists. A large portion of us don't even have a car, and don't
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by BenoitP 4y ago
> No it is not much about the rate of disruption I believe it is. The rate at which iso-climate lines are moving north is faster than a lot of species can move. Most fauna could be ok by that criteria alone, but most flora can't mov
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by BenoitP 4y ago
I came here from Feedly. > Ask HN: Is RSS dying? Or coming back? Feedly has about 30mn of downtime now and then; I'd say once a year. /s It's not dying, thus it doesn't have to come back. > Is RSS still actively de
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You're mixing electricity production vs energy. We don't use oil for electricity production at all in France for example, we do for individual heating though. Most of the gas you see for France is for industrial heating: making ce
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And also deal with the harm done by coal mining; rehabilitate the Hambach mine landscape for example
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Nice! Is it still interpreter only, or will we have C1 and C2 JIT support as well?
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Surely having a shared memory model increases the design space? Or is this about memory management performance? A benchmark should settle things in that case. Maybe it will be a draw! Erlang's almost-no-op deallocation vs Java's w
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by BenoitP 4y ago
> which means it can suspend your green thread at ANY instruction True. Out of curiosity: what's the use case for this? Surely side-effects-out-of-your-system is enough?
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With Loom incoming, Go's only unfair advantage (shared with Erlang) may be gone soon. I guess we'll have the answer in a few years. Will the next WhatsApp be written in Java?
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SEEKING WORK | Paris, France | Remote --------------------------- Machine learning engineer, specialized in Explainable AI / ML. 13 years professional coding experience, 24 years personal. Recent Highlights: * Implementation in Spark&#
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Machine learning engineer, specialized in Explainable AI / ML. 13 years professional coding experience, 24 years personal. Recent Highlights: * Implementation in Spark/Scala of treeinterpreter, currently used in production * Parti
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> has been described as the perfect storm The conspiracist in me thinks the French state actually finds it very convenient. Just when it needed to announce new reactors to be built it finds the perfect justification. To me it might even
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by BenoitP 4y ago
The conspiracist in me tells me big software groups actually like piracy quite a lot. Sure they want to extract as much as possible from the ones who can pay, but they'd be pretty pissed that the others go to the competition. Piracy is
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TIL. Well, color me surprised. I even found a source mentioning crude oil: > Oils: Includes crudes and other refined residuals that are heated to acceptable levels to enable the needed viscosity for gas turbine combustion. https:/&
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It is an emergency lasting at least 8-10 months starting now so as to not deplete the reserves. I don't think the turbines can last that long without regular heavy maintenance. Also, I highly doubt some of these can run on crude oil.
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One upside of this crisis, is that the holy German liberal process of economic-politics will self-regulate: After the next winter's gas prices and lack thereof, there will not be any money left going into lobbying. It is a shame that i
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> it is hard to control the output in a short amount of time Well, France has been doing it just fine for the last 33 years: > [...] flexible operation of nuclear reactors is possible and has been applied in France by EDF’s 58 reactor
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If Germany had kept its nuclear plants, it would not be wasting currently 5GW of gas for electricity (and burning much less lignite coal as well): https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE > one of the largest exporte
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> We may Here it is. We just don't base the immediate future of the underlying infrastructure of our whole economies on a 'may'. We do it with proven, existing, scalable tech.
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> nuclear is gone and has been replaced by renewables years ago This only works because Germany is still burning ungodly amount of coal, to fill the gaps when there is no wind or sun (about 60% of the time) Is this the meme you're t
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Fukushima caused exactly one death from ionizing radiation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_di... Fossil fuel air pollution cause one fifth of premature death worldwide: https://www
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This is to be understood under the high oil and gas prices and supply shortage. Germany has a huge industrial organic chemistry complex. In comes the oil and gas, which get vapocracked, distilled into base molecules; out goes fertilizers, p

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