northernskys30

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by northernskys30 3y ago
There is better open source availability than 20 years ago, I think, let say JUMP in Julia. But I would say the culprit as to why mathematical optimization is not hyped and not as open sourced is the fact that to the layman, mathematical op
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by northernskys30 3y ago
I meant sexy in the sense of fashionable. People are impressed if you can solve TSP for a few nodes with a NN, but they don`t really care if you can solve for 100k of nodes with good ol' branch-and-cut.
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by northernskys30 3y ago
Concerning combinatorial optimization, for what it is worth, I've been working in that field for the last three years! Mainly on public transport optimization algorithms. It is less "sexy" than ML, and paid less, but I find i
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by northernskys30 3y ago
That would be Knights of the Old Republic 1 for me. The story is really good, and it has the best BIG REVEAL of any game I played. I used to replay it two times every year, one full evil run and one full lawful good.
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by northernskys30 3y ago
Feels like Inscryption ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inscryption ).
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by northernskys30 3y ago
Hydro quebec pays a yearly dividend to its sole shareholder, the government of Quebec. For 2022 : "In light of these results, Hydro-Québec will be able to pay a dividend of $3,418 million to the Québec government, its sole shareholder
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by northernskys30 4y ago
It compiles to a sort of byte code that is executed by a stack based virtual machine.
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by northernskys30 4y ago
I did my CS degree at umontreal and this was an assignment in a second year class. This was a pretty interesting introduction to compilers, and even if this is a toy subset of C, this was challenging, at least for me. We would get 0 if ther