emil-lp

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by emil-lp 4mo ago
I don't know which field you're talking about, but in general, math and cs journals do not have page limits. By the way, one of my favorite pastimes is to download the latex source for papers on arxiv and read all the commented-ou
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
Friction or flywheel car. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friction_motor
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
I'd buy it and put it in the Drawer of Dreams aka unfinished projects.
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
You mean ... Like a Beowulf cluster of those?
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
To save people the bother: An LLM read a paper and concluded it was a top 1% paper. Everyone involved were happy.
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
This is possibly related EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197131
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
The kidney exchange problem isn't bipartite matching but a cycle packing problem (or disjoint cycle cover).
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
I forgot the `/s` and now my Karma is gone...
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
I've embraced it, and I'm coding faster than all my colleagues, some days I open more PRs than the rest of my team combined.
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
Here's what I would need: the ability to position five nodes in a circular fashion, so that they are evenly spaced.
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
2n choose n is just: you must move East 20 times and South 20 times. Hence any solution looks like a permutation of 20 Es and 20 Ss. Now, only look at the indices for the Es. There are 20 of them. Out of 40. 40 indices, pick 20. Those are E
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
I observe that you have strong feelings. There are exercises that help increase emotional granularity.
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
Isn't it well-known that Nash equilibria of games are highly sensitive to the modelling? And that seemingly benign modifications can lead to much worse outcomes? Eg Braess' paradox, Induced traffic/demand, strategic voting, e
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
Surely the roots go back to Turing, Gödel, Hilbert, Frege, Leibniz, Aristoteles.
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
I think you can post more or less whatever you want. Whether it gets upvoted depends on a lot of things. For example, I will upvote this submission, but not your comment.
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
Reader mode, man ... Never stops improving web pages.
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
I recommend Code the Classics' clone, Substitute Soccer. A free pygame implementation that can be found on GitHub. Ps, I modified it to work with a set of joysticks/USB controllers I had. It's quite fun!
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
Also, every alternative containing a semicolon was the correct one.
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
A ship can carry a boat, but a boat cannot carry a ship.
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
What are these things you have that makes Emacs a modern editor? I have cua-mode and don't show startup message. What else do I need to modernize Emacs?
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
Obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/ and the survey https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1317227
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
Related. 31 days ago Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15 265 points, 130 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077924
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
Using LaTeX makes sense because that's what all journals and conferences expect. I'm writing two books, both in LaTeX. I really don't get what the problem is.
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
> It's a lot more practical to navigate than Emacs' undo, too. What the heck are you talking about? Emacs undo is simply the State monad over a zipper into a persistent tree of buffer states. I can't see how you could ma
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
I have a similar RCE for Midnight Commander. 1. Download my virus 2. Open Midnight Commander 3. Launch virus via MC.
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
My apologies for not being clear about my point. I try to do some napkin math of what it takes to start a company serving an LLM to customers. I thought maybe 10,000 users sounded like a reasonable number. I'd like also to compare it t
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
I reran the numbers, break even after four years. 10k users. Minimum upfront: about $15M Comfortable upfront: $20M–$25M Monthly revenue needed: $900k–$1.5M Required price per 10k individual customers: $99–$149/month API-equivalent outp
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
Since you couldn't answer, I asked ChatGPT. It said: upfront investment: $3M to $6M. Customers should pay $25k per month. Checks out
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
I didn't find the answer there, that's why I asked. What hardware is needed, how much of it, cooling, and what does it all cost you? Or are you saying I can take my old desktop and serve Deepseek v3.2 to 10k users simultaneously a
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by emil-lp 4mo ago
Remember that OpenAI is subsidized from here to the highway. A better way to model this, since you seem interested is the following: How much would it cost you to start such a service for, say, 10k users? Any other internet service has had

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