guyomes

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In the sector of computer chips manufacturing, ASML [0] is a pretty big European tech company. Also, if we think in term of people instead of companies, many big tech companies have offices in Europe or buy European companies. They employ E
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> The initial point (and randomness) has more influence on the solution time than almost anything else. On that remark, a theoretical tool to choose the initial point is the Newton Polygon. For univariate polynomials, this leads to some
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I understand how competition can be seen as variable reward dressed up. On the other hand, in an attempt to classify games, separating the two components competition and chance is still useful. I think that chance is to be understood as a c
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> I realize that variable reward is a key component of fun Actually, Roger Caillois wrote a famous book on the different forms of play [1]. He uses four forms of play to classify games, and the one you are referring to is chance (Alea in
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If you like these kind of pictures, you can also find very nice pictures showing the density of the eigenvalues values of integer matrices in the Bohemian matrices gallery [1]. [1]: http://www.bohemianmatrices.com/gallery&#x
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This reminds me of this 1947 documentary [1] in French that imagined smartphones. Many scenes are surprisingly accurate. [1]: https://youtu.be/ZKfOcR7Qbu4
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Note that LIPICs [1] publishes the conference ECOOP chaired by Jonathan Aldrich. It is a very interesting alternative to ACM for conference proceedings: it hosts some great conferences and it has lower APCs. It does not publish journals tho
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I found that ipe [1] is a nice alternative to inkscape. It has less features than inkscape, however the latex integration is better for math formula. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipe_(software)
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> My most favoritest feature so far is that it converts tables AND equations to markdown and latex perfectly. You might be interested in Texmacs [1]. It is has a wysiwyg interface, and it handles nicely tables and mathematical equations.
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> I believe that overpopulation is the root of the sustainability crisis This has been studied long time ago by scientists such as Alfred Sauvy [1], who concluded that overpopulation is not the cause of sustainability crisis, and that gr
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One interesting application of taking the value appearing in majority, or more generally taking the median, is to remove noise or people from a sequence of several photos taken from the same point of view. This idea is to superimpose all th
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> That seems like almost fundamental emergent idea that is behind all the intelligence in the World. That is indeed quite nice, yet intelligence seems much more diverse in biological organisms and not always reduced to nodes and edge str
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From what I understand, Gene Regulatory Network [1] works very differently from Biological Neural Circuits [2]. Finally, Perceptron used in computers [3] is based on arithmetic operations and is again different from any of those two biologi
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Not sure if that counts, there is also the lua game engine Moai [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai_(software)
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Writing square root of two as a continuous fraction leads to a periodic sequence of coefficients. More generally, a continuous fraction is periodic if and only if the number it represents is a quadratic number, that is, a linear combination
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The Association for Professional Observers maintains a list of observer deaths and disappearances [1] that is also disturbing. [1]: https://www.apo-observers.org/observer-safety/misses/
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> you don't learn any transferable skills Actually, playing video games is an activity that let you practice real-time thinking. Other activities with real-time thinking include music instruments, sports and social interactions. By
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Slight correction, Mistral.AI was funded by two people from Meta (Guillaume Lample, Timothée Lacroix) and one from Deepmind (Arthur Mensch). For new technologies, what matters most might be the universities where people are from, rather tha
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That makes sense. I did observe significant speed up using this technic for evaluating a polynomial on several values. I used Hörner algorithm and indeed the number of registers is very small in this case. If the lack of registers is really
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I wonder if this code could be even further speed up, by taking into account the througput versus the latency of the FMA operator. If the latency is 4 cycles and the througput is 0.5 cycle for example, that means that doing n dependent oper
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Another indicator is the rate of citizen un prisons. The laws on gun ownership doesn't prevent the US government to have high rate of citizens incarcerated [1]. On the other hand, US is a state of law, and in theory, US incarceration d
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Olvid [0,1] seems interesting too. [0]: https://olvid.io [1]: https://github.com/olvid-io/olvid-android
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The smart approach in 1975 was to use Parsons code, which was also turning songs into hashes, computable in your head. You could then find your song back as simply as looking a word in a dictionary. Hopefully this idea won't die any ti
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Actually the link between economy and neural network is quite strong historically. Friedrich Hayek is an economist who invented the word catallaxy to describe "the order brought about by the mutual adjustment of many individual economi
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Another derivation-free optimization algorithm is the Cross-Entropy Method [1]. The main idea is to use a random generator to sample 100 points for example. Then take the 20 points with maximal evaluations. Finally adapt your random generat
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Marc Laidlaw, who worked on the game's story of Half-life and Half-life 2, published a script online [1] that could have been the outline of the plot of Episode 3. That could be sufficient for a serie. [1]: https://combineov
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Voxel files could be a simpler step for 3D images.
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No idea about the future of the Moore's law precisely. Yet recent research results show that there is still room for faster semiconductors, as discussed on HN [0]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38201624
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In math, the job of writing a comprehensive summary is usually done in other places. Some of them are even accessible for free, such as zbMATH [1], a big database of comprehensive summaries of math articles. [1]: https://zbmath.o
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You have great search engine skills! Out of curiosity, what was the exact input you used, and on which search engine? I tried "adventure book girl named gedanken and grandfather on einstein theory" on Google and didn't get th

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