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by nchagnet 9mo ago
> While LLMs have massive valuations right now. Pretty sure the public has spoken when it comes to the differences you fail to illustrate actually mattering. Are you seriously using market valuation as an indicator of worth?
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by nchagnet 9mo ago
I can see why, when I work/focus, I like to use my computer instead of my phone because that's where my headphones are connected (easy switch for meetings, etc.) and I generally like to be nice to my phone battery.
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by nchagnet 9mo ago
Why would you lose your job for posting about and publishing your personal projects?
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by nchagnet 9mo ago
HN has become my main feed for non-news stories and I quite like it, particularly because it has a higher density of small web tech articles and those are my favourite. It doesn't have to be highest quality or most innovative, but read
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Geometric Hallucination Detection via Directional Consistency in Embedding Space(cert-framework.com)
1 points by nchagnet 9mo ago|0 comments
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by nchagnet 9mo ago
We're using ducklake with data storage on Google cloud storage and the catalog inside a postgres database and it's a breeze! It may not be the most mature product, but it's definitely a good setup for small to medium applicat
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by nchagnet 9mo ago
Sounds like a fun initiative! Mine is https://nchagnet.pages.dev
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by nchagnet 9mo ago
I really like the pattern presented in the article. I find myself guilty of designing errors which are useful to me, but maybe not to my user (which tbh in my area is always a bit of a nebulous entity). I really like the idea of separating
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by nchagnet 9mo ago
This is really interesting, I'm always finding weird bugs in my joins once they grow a certain size and this has helped me understand why. Btw you still have a todo comment in section "Why you should only use ID equality"
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by nchagnet 10mo ago
I generally agree with you on the point that a "good Pokémon team" can be better encapsulated by other attributes, including those you mentioned. I would disagree on assumptions being very wrong, because I am not assuming that the
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by nchagnet 10mo ago
That's a great idea!
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by nchagnet 10mo ago
Thank you for your suggestion, I agree with you (and another commenter) that base stat is not that useful, and availability is actually what I would prioritise on in a next iteration. I tried to keep it simple here, mostly because it was in
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by nchagnet 10mo ago
I do comment on that in the article, I think it's a nice example of how your model can only know what you tell it (the one I used in the article doesn't know about abilities).
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by nchagnet 10mo ago
Absolutely! In general I would expect a better model to incorporate a lot of weighed terms in the objective to choose less "extreme" solutions, but here I was mostly interested in illustrating the method.
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by nchagnet 10mo ago
Oh that's really cool, I didn't know about this! I just linked to the wikimedia-hosted illustration, but that's a good perk too.
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by nchagnet 10mo ago
I was planning in a future sequel/update to do this but with "better" constraints like only including Pokémon available in a game, etc... Maybe even separate it into early/mid/late-game availability since most optim
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by nchagnet 10mo ago
Thank you, you're right! For some reason I always forget mew comes after mewtwo in the pokedex...
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by nchagnet 10mo ago
Good catch! Especially since I ended up drawing y - x = C but didn't update the legend. I updated it!
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Pokémon Team Optimization(nchagnet.pages.dev)
193 points by nchagnet 10mo ago|67 comments
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by nchagnet 1y ago
"QM works in the Hamiltonian picture and I recall from my undergrad days that you get there from a Legendre transformation on the Lagrangian (or something to that effect) so I'm trying to understand the justification of that appro
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by nchagnet 1y ago
Regarding the "why the action is this object" part of the question, I find that the easiest way to think about it is from the Hamiltonian perspective. There you can think of it as minimising energy along a trajectory. From that po
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by nchagnet 1y ago
I generally agree with your point on ease of experimentation, but if we insist on calling it software engineering , then maybe the field needs to adhere to engineering principles, as the GP highlighted.
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by nchagnet 1y ago
Interesting that they just skipped the entire Verstappen dominance era, but decided instead to jump to the budgeoning McLaren Piastri-Norris dominance (about a year old only). Of course with 75 years of history you need to trim it down, but
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by nchagnet 1y ago
I would argue the latter one is quite the interesting project from a US interests perspective. I've personally been hearing and reading a lot about the possible impact of climate change on the artic region in terms of resource availabi
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by nchagnet 1y ago
This is such a cool project! Congrats!
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by nchagnet 2y ago
That'd be a good start. This article is well anchored within geometrodynamics (the theories which attempt to explain all physics as geometry), so maybe making that clear would avoid confusions already.
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by nchagnet 2y ago
Sadly no, most examples I'm familiar with are within research articles. A typical thing done within such articles is to consider a spacetime geometry, calculate its Einstein tensor and map it to some ansatz like that of a perfect relat
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by nchagnet 2y ago
This is what I was trying to convey: this is already how we think about it. In general relativity, mass is not more fundamental than the gravitational field and its curvature. While we generally speak of spacetime curving because of mass, t
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by nchagnet 2y ago
This is already sort of the case. Of course it's not as immediate a comparison, but in the same way that charge sources the divergence of the electric field (Maxwell's equations), mass-energy are sources of the Einstein equations
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by nchagnet 2y ago
The title of the phys.org article is a bit more misleading than the article itself (when are they not). What the authors did is build a unified setup for classical gravity and electromagnetism as the solution of one action, under specific a

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