pedrosbmartins

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by pedrosbmartins 19d ago
"That is a lot to ask of one number. Here is how it fits into one. Built one decision at a time." it sure sounds like Claude.
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by pedrosbmartins 2mo ago
Pretty interesting how DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 has such disparate (and cheap!) results. I would never guess they come from the same model and prompt.
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by pedrosbmartins 5mo ago
> What is the probability that you are sharing the same birthday with people around you? > What if I told you that in a room with only 23 people there’s already a 50% chance for two of them to have matching birthdays? I guess it'
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by pedrosbmartins 7mo ago
I've been working on a surfing game on my spare time for the past year. The idea is to keep it closer to the real sport, focusing on pumping, carving, nose-riding, etc. I shared a video of it on the Unity3D subreddit[1] and the feedbac
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How the NYT Made Its Tiny, Animated Olympic Athletes(nytimes.com)
1 points by pedrosbmartins 8mo ago|0 comments
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by pedrosbmartins 8mo ago
KSPS was my favourite surfing game growing up. What I dislike about it though is the infinite/perfect waves (always a truck-sized barrel opened, you can do tricks anywhere, almost no differentiation between waves) and the focus on impo
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by pedrosbmartins 8mo ago
I believe realistic fluid dynamics in the scale of a full breaking wave is unheard of for real time graphics, there's just no way to do it in 30-60FPS (I could be wrong tho!) What I do instead is to transform a procedural plane mesh in
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by pedrosbmartins 8mo ago
I'm working on a (somewhat) realistic surfing game. Tired of arcade-style games, I decided to try my hand at something closer to the real sport, focusing on realistic breaking waves, speed generation and carving, rather than impossible
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by pedrosbmartins 1y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Neutral networks are pretty good statistical learning tools, and in this kind of application you'll need some stochastic learning, regardless of using a laptop or a supercomputer. It's not
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by pedrosbmartins 1y ago
First time I came across integer programming (and mathematical programming generally) was when studying hydroelectric power generation planning, for a masters I ended up not pursuing. Then, when selecting a masters in CS, I ended up working
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by pedrosbmartins 1y ago
what kind of sick, twisted, inhuman comment is that?
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by pedrosbmartins 2y ago
Sebastian Lague is one of those content creators that show what a delight the internet can be when the content is high-quality. I particularly enjoy how he presents his implementation thought-process, eventual dead-ends, and possible future
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by pedrosbmartins 2y ago
cool project! E-mail seems like a good channel for small chunks of language-learning content + reminders. If I may ask you, how do you plan on building vocabulary from these e-mails? Do you use anki or some other method?
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KSA, the Kerbal Space Program Replacement from RocketWerkz(old.reddit.com)
4 points by pedrosbmartins 2y ago|0 comments
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by pedrosbmartins 2y ago
Not this time, only the payload fairing.
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Show HN: Bookmark Pruner – a low-effort extension for dealing with bookmarks(github.com)
1 points by pedrosbmartins 2y ago|0 comments
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Private space-junk probe snaps historic photo of discarded rocket in orbit(space.com)
54 points by pedrosbmartins 2y ago|16 comments
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by pedrosbmartins 2y ago
Nicely done! I've been wanting to build something similar, but as a tool to assist in my history studies. Oh, and if you are into timelines and their history, you might enjoy Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline by Daniel
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Show HN: The History Chronicle – daily historical facts in newspaper form(pedrosbmartins.github.io)
4 points by pedrosbmartins 3y ago|1 comments
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Saturn's moon Mimas might harbor a hidden ocean(sciencenews.org)
4 points by pedrosbmartins 3y ago|0 comments
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Swiss startup raises $23M to build nuclear power plant based on thorium fission(thenextweb.com)
2 points by pedrosbmartins 3y ago|0 comments
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Downtoearth: Visualize astronomical scales by using geographical intuition(pedrosbmartins.github.io)
1 points by pedrosbmartins 3y ago|0 comments
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NASA mission lines up to 'touch the Sun'(bbc.com)
2 points by pedrosbmartins 3y ago|0 comments
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by pedrosbmartins 3y ago
Thank you! And you can change visualizations in the dropdown, there is a special one for Pluto's eccentric orbit :)
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by pedrosbmartins 3y ago
Shameless plug, but if you're into astronomical scales you might like this little visualization tool I've built recently! https://github.com/pedrosbmartins/downtoearth
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by pedrosbmartins 3y ago
Those are great ideas! It's relatively simple to build both of them using the project's custom JSON schema. I'll give it a go when I have some time.
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Show HN: Downtoearth – astronomical scales through geographical intuition(github.com)
2 points by pedrosbmartins 3y ago|2 comments
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by pedrosbmartins 3y ago
Weird, I've been using Ubuntu for quite a few years now, both in my work laptop and personal desktop, and have never even heard the terms "Ubuntu Pro" or "Expanded Security Maintenance for Applications."
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Decision Diagrams: Overcoming Replication and Fragmentation in Decision Trees(pedrosbmartins.github.io)
1 points by pedrosbmartins 3y ago|0 comments
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by pedrosbmartins 3y ago
Algorithms Illuminated by Tim Roughgarden really helped me understand algorithm design and analysis. Used it to prep for a masters in computer science, with no previous degree in the area. https://www.algorithmsilluminated.org&#x

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