BenoitP

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   by BenoitP 3y ago

   ITAR [1] Not that the Chinese are perfectly capable of building the same network on their own. Albeit with electronics' performance a transistor node older. Which is to say: almost the same. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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   by BenoitP 3y ago

   Well APL is great but it is write-only. Also naming is hard, but in APL it is very easy: you just don't do it. What does the following do? program ← {⊃1 ⍵ ∨.∧ 3 4 = +/ +⌿ ¯1 0 1 ∘.⊖ ¯1 0 1 ⌽¨ ⊂⍵} Libraries in other langua
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   by BenoitP 3y ago

   Time independence begs the question of failure recovery (and the associated at least once and at most once recovery basic options). This kind of problem is more suited to solutions like 'closure-persisted lambda functions'. Flink&
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   by BenoitP 3y ago

   You may have a point for strings. But this is about guarantees for more convoluted expressions in other languages. If you include validating SQL being injection-free, this is waaay less verbose. Also this is about enabling a _system_ of tem
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   by BenoitP 3y ago

   I'd love to have whole history movements explained through geography. Not the event spikes, but the large scale movements setting the trend. I believe much of history is the result of geography. Examples: * Why was Rome, Rome? Well, Ro
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   by BenoitP 3y ago

   Indeed. This coupled to the fact that female fertility is easier when younger (easier to become pregnant, fewer complications, better physical shape, not menopaused, etc.), is IMHO the number one factor in a lot of male/female statisti
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   by BenoitP 3y ago

   Having children will do that to you. Before, I considered a good time a lengthy amount of geeking something out. Wether it was a scientific topic or even just a video game. Now I have a small entity of continuous entropy generation, who is
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   by BenoitP 3y ago

   So, something between parquet/ORC (a bit more compressed) and arrow (very CPU scan-friendly) I wish we could specify what we intend to do to data, craft a cost model, and let a 4th gen system optimize around that. Something that would
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   by BenoitP 3y ago

   Waiting on the whole async dead-end to come to terms to cheap threads here. It's going to take a long time, but let's not kid ourselves: the TCO-driven accountants hold the roots of true power.
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    by BenoitP 3y ago

    Backwards compatibility prevents from removing constructs that have not aged well. But the (implicitly recommended) way of programming in Java is with an IDE. IntelliJ will softly shame you into getting rid of older classes and constructs (
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    by BenoitP 3y ago

    Is that a plea to help bring trains as an alternative? Because taxing air travel is often discussed as a way to develop train.
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    by BenoitP 3y ago

    Java? * Type system is even accidentally Turing complete * Very good perf, but language doesn't help by being indirection-friendly. Value types will help a lot. * SOTA GCs * Ecosystem big * Cheap threads now. Don't do async! Just
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    by BenoitP 3y ago

    Lifetimes complicated. Having a proof of them at compile time is difficult. You can't prove everything for starters. A lot of patterns are just a no-go. Why not defer that to the runtime, and just observe which variables stick around (
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    by BenoitP 3y ago

    Good stuff coming from them and that lab! From a researcher's personal page[1], they're working on cashing in that GS stuff: estimating pose dynamics by regularizing Gaussians’ motion and rotation with local-rigidity constraints [
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    by BenoitP 3y ago

    I wish these articles would publish an energetic tally. It's pretty tough to remove CO2 from the atmosphere (an inert and pretty stable molecule at trace quantities), but that becomes easy with infinite energy. Does the energy for mini
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    by BenoitP 3y ago

    But upvotes and downvotes are a form of regulation (global same enforcement for everyone), and not a form of market liquidity. They'd be market-liquid if HN learned an embedding of who-upvotes-what and created a bubble for each user wh
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    Call for Discussion: New Project: Babylon(mail.openjdk.org)

    1 points by BenoitP 3y ago|1 comments
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    by BenoitP 3y ago

    TL;DR(mine): Proposal to extend reflective programming in Java, enabling easier analysis and transformation of code; at compile and runtime. The general motivation being to broaden Java to nontraditional domains. Should help enabling: * LIN
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    by BenoitP 3y ago

    explicable.ai The frontpage is done, demonstrating the product. ML pipeline is ready. It lacks the CRUD backend though. -- please review the site before comparing to my goals below, to see if it matches -- It brings insights (with nice pixe
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    by BenoitP 3y ago

    An actual positive in my book. If you consider back propagation of constraining types wrt the derivative of developer effort you get smooth gradients. Program works and is correct, but developer gets yelled at by its IDE (IntelliJ does) unt
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    by BenoitP 3y ago

    Loops have an implicit ordering, and thus are inherently non parallelizable at face value. map can enable easy parallelization, wether with SIMD or threads or GPU warps or Spark nodes. It's just a construct that specifies less about ex
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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. Recent Highlights: * Seamless integration of hand-crafted rules with ML-build rules * Intuitive, visual data&#x2
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    by BenoitP 3y ago

    Or compute right next to the memory with dumb cores, and have a bigger core for mixing the results.
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    by BenoitP 3y ago

    It sure can. Large parts of the whole stack have been developed with trading off developer velocity vs performance. But hardware still has plenty of runway. The third dimension is barely beginning. Also customizing the hardware to the workl
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    by BenoitP 3y ago

    I sort of agree with the author's hypotheses, but reach diametrically different conclusions. Price goes to zero at highest solar production within the day, ergo nuclear will suffer from this. Counterpoint: if electricity is sold at spo
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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. Recent Highlights: * Seamless integration of hand-crafted rules with ML-build rules * Intuitive, visual data&#x2
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    by BenoitP 3y ago

    Also, for learning by example this website is gold: https://www.shadertoy.com/
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    by BenoitP 3y ago

    That's still a rung lower in the added value chain. Minus the additional transportation. Minus slanted negotiation by China and India. Also oil extraction is quite capital-intensive. A well will output most of its potential in the firs