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by ogrisel 7y ago
A simpler alternative to get carbon negative buildings is to use Cross-Laminated-Timber (CLT) to build both the frame and the walls themselves.
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by ogrisel 7y ago
Lime production is carbon intensive (heat + chemical C02 release from the limestone) and the hempcrete curing will take 50 years to fix back the second part. So it can be carbon negative (by fixing the carbon of the hemp itself) but only on
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by ogrisel 7y ago
> A bit like sticking a magnet on an engine block and getting loads more horsepower ! Typical motors used in electric cars are a lot more powerful and efficient than their internal combustion engine counterparts ;)
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by ogrisel 7y ago
The BLAS & Lapack subset of the API of the Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL) is very well implemented in open source projects such as OpenBLAS and BLIS: https://github.com/flame/blis Both are well optimized for AMD C
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by ogrisel 7y ago
The blog post highlights specifically usability improvements so they do pay attention to the usability. Rather that state vague generic complaints, please be more constructive and be specific by highlighting the most important usability iss
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by ogrisel 7y ago
The gallery of rendered images and videos is probably the quickest way of getting an idea of what this software project can achieve: http://taichi.graphics/gallery/
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by ogrisel 8y ago
Li-ion batteries are mostly useful to shift the load by a couple of hours, that is to be able to sell cheap to produce solar power in the evening when the demand is highest and therefore the gross price for electricity the highest. So just
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by ogrisel 8y ago
Plastic micro-particles are found in tap water in most places around the world: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/06/plastic-...
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by ogrisel 8y ago
If I remember correctly, I believe the JetBrains / IntelliJ / PyCharm brands of the sponsor were very visible when taking the survey. That might have influenced significantly in the selection of the Python users taking the survey:
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by ogrisel 8y ago
Panel cleaning can be done by robots, no?
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by ogrisel 8y ago
Putting a blog post would already be a positive contribution. Then reference it a bit, for instance by answering relevant questions on stackoverflow and linking to it to give more comprehensive details. Over time your page will naturally ge
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by ogrisel 8y ago
It's published in Nature Machine Intelligence: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-018-0002-3 But at least this article seems to be available as Open Access. I am not sure if this is temporary or not.
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by ogrisel 8y ago
There are other alternative technologies to store energy as heat, in particular molten silicon: - https://reneweconomy.com.au/mit-team-gains-ground-on-molten-... - https://1414degrees.com.au/ (which looks l
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by ogrisel 8y ago
I believe the molten salt technology used for thermal energy storage is not directly related to molten salt nuclear reactors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_energy_storage#Molten_... (sodium nitrate, potassium n
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by ogrisel 8y ago
Are you sure sunamp is molten salt? To me, molten salt is to store energy at a very high temperature in insulated containers. I thought sunamp is some kind of room temperature phase change material that does not require heavy insulation.
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by ogrisel 8y ago
The public is also afraid of nuclear technology because of nuclear weapons used to destroy the cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a single bomb each time.
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by ogrisel 8y ago
Maybe, but why would EV owners would ever shop at a gas station if they can charge their car at home, work or while shopping at other regular shopping venues.
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by ogrisel 8y ago
We will have to find a way to stop using fossil fuels because of climate change.
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by ogrisel 8y ago
And Ionic Materials ( http://ionicmaterials.com ) which also received investment from big industrial companies over the last year.
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by ogrisel 8y ago
You can do k-NN in the feature space of the network (activation of one of the last layers) to generate partial "explanations" of the neural network decisions.
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by ogrisel 9y ago
You can write very efficient Cython code but it's true that in this case, you tend to adopt a lower level code style that is very close to C/C++. Basically, you need to think about the C/C++ code that will be generated by Cyt
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by ogrisel 9y ago
I was confused. This is a hosted colaboraty service. But the new google drive / jupyter integration is called jupyter-drive: https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter-drive
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by ogrisel 9y ago
It's basically a demo of their native code sandbox technology: (P)NaCL https://developer.chrome.com/native-client This new online notebook system is probably the successor of: http://colaboratory.jupyter.org
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by ogrisel 9y ago
About manicuring a public image and fake niceness, for some reason, I find the following funny take on his public image quite authentic :) https://twitter.com/BasedDrWorm/status/913282180280934400
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by ogrisel 9y ago
Breaking with regen makes EV use the physical breaks less often as compared to combustion engine vehicles. Using breaks also emits particulates although I am not sure how it compares to the volumes of particulate emissions by combustion eng
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by ogrisel 9y ago
Furthermore, adding more EVs on the roads means more EVs on home charging stations at night and when parked at work during the day. In turn this means more opportunities to develop large scale demand side management for the power grid and t
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by ogrisel 9y ago
Thanks for your feedback. I am glad I could help you.
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by ogrisel 9y ago
The pickling implementation of joblib has support for memory mapping numpy arrays nested in arbitrary data structures such as pandas dataframes. Save the dataframe in a folder that can be accessed by the gunicorn worker: import joblib
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by ogrisel 9y ago
In the benchmarks reported in the article, both through-put and latency were significantly improved by the new thread pool system.
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by ogrisel 9y ago
To be more factual: a majority of papers published by researchers at DeepMind do not cite any result from the neuroscience literature in their bibliography. Instead they cite other papers from the Machine Learning community.

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