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by BenoitP 3y ago
Cost figures are very hard to come by as: * Financing and returns are spread over 60 years for nuclear, which makes it hugely dependent on the interest rate. Which we don't know in advance, and also is at risk of irrational public perc
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by BenoitP 3y ago
From wikipedia [1] > Typical capacity factors of current wind farms are between 25 and 45% Offshore being about 10% higher than on land. Of note is that it is in unconstrained conditions, defined by the weather; when it is needed or when
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by BenoitP 3y ago
> efficiently converts optical power to electrical power Damn, I thought it was just a copper pair going along the fibers. I hope they provide some thick safety glasses with that. I don't know if it'd come out as laser light, b
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by BenoitP 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | Paris, France | Remote-open --------------------------- Machine learning engineer, specialized in Explainable AI / ML. 13 years professional coding experience, 24 years personal. Recent highlights: * Seamless integration
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by BenoitP 3y ago
Machine learning engineer, specialized in Explainable AI / ML. 13 years professional coding experience, 24 years personal. Highlights: * Seamless integration of hand-crafted rules with ML-build rules * Intuitive, visual data/signa
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by BenoitP 3y ago
My rule of thumb has been: enable them strictly in DEV and INT environments, disable in PROD. They can catch schema discrepancies, but can impede ingestion rates. Also some referential errors are sort of ok in PROD, as long as it's onl
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by BenoitP 3y ago
I believe it comes at the exact time -and in opposition to- of the masses coming to terms with the climate change challenge. We have to transition away from fossil fuels, but they are so intertwined with our lives it also means strong degro
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by BenoitP 3y ago
> At some point following the completion of the renovations, the two tanks were found to be missing [...] had not been entered into a company-wide asset management system [...] The tanks are, unfortunately, not in a usable state. They ha
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by BenoitP 3y ago
> I wish there was a study which analyzes what the magic formula of the US is. I'll take a try from the geographical determinism viewpoint, which I believe in 100%: * Have natural resources in vast quantities: temperate arable land
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by BenoitP 3y ago
Seems like their target market is sensitive to betting/gambling prompts.
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by BenoitP 3y ago
You want to be mining at the tip of the blockchain, otherwise you risk losing the block you're mining as others will not include its digest in their header (and not base the blockchain through your block. it'd be just a leaf in th
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by BenoitP 3y ago
Machine learning engineer, specialized in Explainable AI / ML. 13 years professional coding experience, 24 years personal. Highlights: * Seamless integration of hand-crafted rules with ML-build rules * Intuitive, visual data/signa
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by BenoitP 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | Paris, France | Remote-open --------------------------- Machine learning engineer, specialized in Explainable AI / ML. 13 years professional coding experience, 24 years personal. Recent highlights: * Seamless integration
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by BenoitP 3y ago
In France though EDF has become a monopoly recently. I'm pretty sure the government fully intends to sell it as produced to French industries and individuals. Why wouldn't it? It is financed by us, we should reap its rewards. Some
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by BenoitP 3y ago
About 110€/MWh, and also the government is planning the nuclear reactors to produce around 70€/MWh from 2026 onwards.
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MagicTile: Geometrical and Topological Analogues of Rubik's Cube(roice3.org)
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by BenoitP 3y ago
No. Several weeks is the time it takes to learn and master Docker. About two hours is the cumulative time one must cater to the Dockerfile for a 3 weeks project. But it requires institution insisting on reproducibility, and fostering best p
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by BenoitP 3y ago
Even better. Now is the perfect time to ramp up the PR. Some very trivial Google searches will tell you their result is not out of the ordinary.
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by BenoitP 3y ago
Agreed, but IMHO it is sort of justified for Tesla. The size of its hype matches the size of the ICEs entrenchment in its moat. These have outsize influence on our economy, but climate change (and oil depletion) is quite inevitable. It take
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by BenoitP 3y ago
This, especially given the timing. The drama must have quite disturbed the momentum they had, and this piece of prototype-teasing has all to reassure their market. It projects new advancements of untold impact, stoking the greed. And of cou
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by BenoitP 3y ago
What do you think of integrating propositional logic, first order logic and sat solvers in LLM output? ie forcing each symbol an LLM outputs to have its place in a formal proposition. And getting a prompt from the user to force that some p
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by BenoitP 3y ago
Depends on the degree of freedom the governed have. I'm pretty confident a lot of them would get an offer way above average salary at any of the top 50 AI companies. Hell even the French government told Altman he'd be welcome in F
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by BenoitP 3y ago
SpaceX on Twitter: "T-40 seconds and holding. This is a planned hold. Teams are using this time for final checks. All systems continue to look good for today’s flight test"
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by BenoitP 3y ago
There's a direct media stream that VLC can open (with network stream): https://prod-ec-us-west-2.video.pscp.tv/Transcoding/v1/hls/O... ---- Much better quality, slightly better latency. Seems like it com
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by BenoitP 3y ago
I recreated a thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38318763 But it is marked as dupe (HN seems to have already queried it and classified as broken link)
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When (launch window opening) * 5 AM Pacific Time * 7 AM Central Time (local) * 8 AM Eastern Time * 2 PM Central European Time Live Media * Official YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceX * Labpadre: https://
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by BenoitP 3y ago
Seems like the link I posted does not work well. Here is the broadcast link after login redirect: https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1dRKZEWQvrXxB
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Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time(spacex.com)
471 points by BenoitP 3y ago|520 comments
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When (launch window opening) * 4 hours from now * 5 AM Pacific Time * 7 AM Central Time (local) * 8 AM Eastern Time * 2 PM Central European Time Live Media * Official yet channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceX * Labpadre:
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by BenoitP 3y ago
Parquet is columnar, you can read each column independently, and a different compression scheme can be used for each column. You first have to read the beginning of the file to get the layout though (And the end of it as well, according to

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