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by Loic 3y ago
I am French, living in Germany. From my experiments with ChatGPT (I have access to GPT-4), the French is not going to be perfect, but so good that anyway nobody will ever notice the errors. ChatGPT is a wonderful tool to improve your knowle
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by Loic 3y ago
CD: Certificate of Deposit.
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by Loic 3y ago
The suffering patient is not the customer. The customer is the health insurance. This is why most of the health systems have issues now, because the patient is not the customer, the patient is only a vehicle to extract money out of the heal
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by Loic 3y ago
Effectively, Apple infringe on the trademark of the apple producers to give the feeling that the electronic devices they provide are healthy and good for you.
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by Loic 3y ago
Someone commented here somewhere that ChatGPT closed the gap between native and non native speakers. As a good non native German speaker, the ability to send a piece of text to a good LLM for review and correction is incredible. I do not ne
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by Loic 3y ago
This is why you have many people working in Luxembourg and living in France, Germany or Belgium.
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by Loic 3y ago
For laser printer, it is specified on the plug. It protects only against power surge coming from the utility provider. It does not provide power to the printer, this is just a protection if your house is hit by lightning.
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by Loic 3y ago
My UPS has a plug for the printer. It does only surge protection. This is convenient to have the full IT equipment of the office protected with just one box.
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by Loic 3y ago
As a French living in Germany, the German sentence structure has the interesting side effect that it is way harder to start answering before the speaker finishes his sentence. In French, you basically listen to 3/4 of the sentence, c
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by Loic 3y ago
I can raise only one half of a hand as I started without punch cards, but we had cards at home because my mother "recycled" the unused one she add at the office to take notes.
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Fast GPT-2 inference written in Fortran(github.com)
83 points by Loic 3y ago|13 comments
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by Loic 3y ago
I contacted you on your email address from your personal website.
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by Loic 3y ago
For Fortran, it is really a niche. This is a part of what I am doing for a living. For the first time, I proposed my service on the traditional "who is hiring/looking for work/freelancer" to see if some people reacted to
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by Loic 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | Germany | Remote Small shop (2 people [0]) doing high performance computing for scientific software. We know how to make your models easily available to your end users (web based or desktop app). We have extensive experience
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by Loic 3y ago
The report[0] is short and we'll written. What I like are the disagreements from the reviewers. I write a lot of Fortran[1] and I tend to agree with most of the points. Even the disagreements are all good because they take different
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by Loic 3y ago
It is making money now. The really big difference with respect to all the other search engines, cat pictures websites, etc. is that the current users expect to pay and pay to have access to the API. This is for me the key difference bet
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by Loic 3y ago
It is not sweating, it is the salt cristals which are drawing the water/humidity and at saturation it creates this little water droplet.
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by Loic 3y ago
It would be applied to the end-user, so it would change nothing up to you paying the extra at the end of the line. VAT is not a sales tax but a tax for the full chain of added value.
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by Loic 3y ago
Two heat exchangers, one big for the hot water, one smaller for the heating. Heat comes in the form of water at 10bar/75°C. Everything is packed in a box having the a size of 1m (H) x 50cm (L) x 30cm (D). Isolated delivery pipes are al
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by Loic 3y ago
Highway tolls in France have been doing it for something like 20 years.
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by Loic 3y ago
I was able to build a very nice desk[0] for my wife using wood from one provider[1] in Germany. It was CNC cut extremely precisely. I requested all the plates and used my wood tools to do all the small cuts, holes, etc. But you can ask them
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by Loic 3y ago
People breaking the toothbrush are stupid, you should perforate it to keep the size and save weight! /s
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by Loic 3y ago
SQLite, I register specific functions written in Go if I want to not load the stuff in memory.
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by Loic 3y ago
We do "family" hiking (3 kids, 9 to 15) with up to 110km through the mountains with maximum 20 km and about 1000m up and 1000m down on a "hard" day. I fully agree with you: - start slow to get the body to find itself (an
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by Loic 3y ago
By the way, the way farmers destroyed McDonalds in France in the 2000's created a wake up call for the company to adapt its offers to the local markets. Afterwards France was the fastest growing market and the "recipe" was th
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by Loic 3y ago
Yes, but noise would be a problem.
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by Loic 3y ago
Most databases allow you to write extensions in your language of choice, this can be a good middle ground where you write domain specific DB extension in the language of your application, this way, you can share logic between your database
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by Loic 3y ago
The only reason I am using an Android phone and not an iOS one is because of F-Droid to install the open-source app I like and need. I would definitely switch to iOS if I could have this freedom there. I hate that with Android I trust that
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by Loic 4y ago
With proper filtering , the problem here is that in a typical refinery, you do not filter the kind of compounds released by these new plastic handling processes. You filter out mercaptan, H2S, CO2 using post processing gas treatment like a
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by Loic 4y ago
For me, the most interesting part is the statistics on all the models. These show that 8 bit quantization is basically as good as the full model and 4 bit is very close. This is the first time I see such table across a large number of model

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