BenoitP

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by BenoitP 3y ago
Well, in conformal/stereographic geometry it can be. The south pole becoming the infinite circular line at the horizon. Distances are not preserved though.
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by BenoitP 3y ago
TLDR at the end > Companies have said that the cost of building wind farms has soared because of rising inflation and interest rates, while the maximum price they can charge for the electricity they generate has been relatively low. Ther
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by BenoitP 3y ago
And it accounts for about 5% of the marginal electricity cost in raw (25% when fully transformed)
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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
One could argue it is more about physics than math. GA has simpler expressions for a lot of physical topics.
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by BenoitP 3y ago
I'm not versed at all into the Hodge star operator but it feels like Maxwell's equations expressed in both systems[1] might locate the answer. With Hodge star: dF = 0 d * F = J Expressed in GA: ∇F = J The eye
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by BenoitP 3y ago
Earlier on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38067314 https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
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Why can't you multiply vectors? [video](youtube.com)
115 points by BenoitP 3y ago|87 comments
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by BenoitP 3y ago
This post was brought to you by the Geometric Algebra gang. Join us at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60z_hpEAtD8 https://bivector.net/ https://enkimute.github.io/ganja.js/examples&#x
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by BenoitP 3y ago
I've heard this version: "what Andy giveth, Bill taketh away" (Intel vs Microsoft CEOs) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law Henry Petroski probably said it first though
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by BenoitP 3y ago
* or so they claim
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by BenoitP 3y ago
> that allow extending React websites with plugins powered by the community So you are you talking about user-provided plugins? Sort of like web browser extensions, but talking to the React API?
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by BenoitP 3y ago
Video summary (from yt): A whirlwind tour of the history of our system of vector algebra — including applications from art, science, and programming — leading to a plea that we trade it in for something even better: Geometric Algebra.
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"From Geometry to Algebra and Back Again: 4000 Years of Papers" by Jack Rusher [video](youtube.com)
2 points by BenoitP 3y ago|1 comments
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by BenoitP 3y ago
A recent paper by the author: "A Flexible Type System for Fearless Concurrency" pdf[1]. In which is discussed a technique for creating memory regions that a compiler can use for proving there are no race condition; with less cerem
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"Programming Distributed Systems" by Mae Milano [video](youtube.com)
5 points by BenoitP 3y ago|1 comments
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by BenoitP 3y ago
Toyota is the top company in global market share [1]. They are way more affected by global systemic issues than others. This means: * They can't retreat into a niche * Their bread and butter is efficiency, accumulated through tears and
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by BenoitP 3y ago
It replaces the massive amounts of coal that is used. It changes from (simplifying) 2 Fe2O3 + 3 C → 4 Fe + 3 CO2 to Fe2O3 + 6 H2 → 2 Fe + 3 H2O At the moment emissions are: 1.4 kg CO2 per kg of steel produced. And wester
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by BenoitP 3y ago
Pricing for pg should be easy to compute 20M vectors @768 is about 62GB, for 32bit, not even quantized. AWS RDS will put it at 83USD/m (db.t4g.small, 2vcpu 2GB RAM). But that's not with egress, backups, etc Seems acceptable at lea
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by BenoitP 3y ago
> it never actually addresses why the French changed their minds! I'll take a try as a French. * Our exiled government was located in the UK, which as strong ties to the US * France never saw any Russian troops, and a big event of t
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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
I loved his antimemetics series, which you can buy a book of on Amazon: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub
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by BenoitP 3y ago
Good on Portugal for the effort but nothing out of the ordinary, in terms of CO2 this is average performance: (select Portugal, emissions over the last 12 months) https://app.electricitymaps.com/map Gas still accounts for
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by BenoitP 3y ago
https://github.com/google/jaxonnxruntime
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by BenoitP 3y ago
Feels like the field is testing an changing lots of parameters right now. Hell, we were doing volumetric NeRF not long ago. It's going to be very interesting to where it converges. I would not be surprised to see volumetric wavelets at
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by BenoitP 3y ago
> But since the splats aren't a surface, they don't exactly have a "behind". Spherical Harmonics apply to the whole sphere, splats can learn a SH color for their "behind". But by definition there is no data
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by BenoitP 3y ago
Very interesting that this comment comes from you (pron is the guy giving the talk). Is this something you know someone is working on? Maybe at Oracle? Or just a general thought? I follow the loom-dev mailing-list and haven't seen this
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by BenoitP 3y ago
Exactly! It's like ads on TV. It's like a catalog for the highest margin products. Also often for products that can hack us through instinctive reactions (appeal to status: cars/makeup, fear: insurance, etc)

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