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by somethingsome 1y ago
In Belgium... It is already extremely difficult to get the books you want to buy if they are not the popular ones.. I need to import many of my books from America by resellers and pay many duties.. Sometimes a book at $20 is sold >$200..
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by somethingsome 1y ago
Belgium is worse and worse, news laws all the time, very oppressing ones, much more surveillance and way less liberties.
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by somethingsome 1y ago
Aaah I wanted to try the infinite napkin, and see what happens with maths book, it should be interesting, but I didn't find a way to upload the pdf, and I don't have an API key.
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by somethingsome 1y ago
I think both kind of applications should exist in parallel. I generally dislike current trend in professional softwares that try to be easy to use, at the cost of less power or more clicks to do a simple action. Professional apps should sta
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by somethingsome 1y ago
Struggle is very good for learning, I remember as a child enjoying very difficult interfaces because I was proud of being able to navigate the software when I finally get there, becoming very efficient with it, and I learned way more about
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by somethingsome 1y ago
I find papers nowadays contain way less content than before, yes the writing is easier to read, but the page count didn't increase, that means that there is less information per page now. A scientific paper is written for a specific au
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by somethingsome 1y ago
But the data changes very often in place with the functions calls on it. I agree that would be a good solution, despite that my data is huge, but it assumes the data doesn't change, or doesn't change that much.
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by somethingsome 1y ago
I have many functions written by many scientists in a unique software over many years, some expect a data format the others another, it's not always the same function that is called, but all the functions could have been written using
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by somethingsome 1y ago
That's exactly the problem, in the software I have in mind, the conversions are actually very slow, and I can't easily change the content of the functions that process the data, they are very mathematical, it would take much time
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by somethingsome 1y ago
It's because you aim for a false objective! There is no a 'proper' way to do it! It goes like this, you change it, if it looks good, well, good job, if not, ask yourself why, and try your best to take that into account next t
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by somethingsome 1y ago
I'm curious about what you think about something, Supoose you make two simple types one for Kelvin K and the other for Fahrenheit F or degrees D. And you implement the conversions between them in the types. But then you have something
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by somethingsome 1y ago
Part of the value of a university is exactly that. It builds momentum and incentives. Self paces lectures can be available, but it's extremely hard to follow them if you don't have a good evaluation at the end, or if you don'
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by somethingsome 1y ago
Mmmh I'm deeply skeptical of some parts. > One explanation for why this game works is that there is only one way in which things are related There is not, this is a completely non transitive relationship. On another point, suppose y
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by somethingsome 1y ago
Thank-you both, that was what I was missing. I didn't use signals in programming in many many years, and the 'catching' of signals was the most bothering to me.
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by somethingsome 1y ago
Oh please, say more, it seems very interesting. I didn't really get the last two bullet points
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by somethingsome 1y ago
I work at many levels and on many different projects, so usually I give a very simple explanation of the most interesting one, in very simple terms, and add, 'that's a small part of my job'. People that are interested can ask
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by somethingsome 1y ago
Thanks! I missed that
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Solve high degree polynomials using Geode numbers(tandfonline.com)
19 points by somethingsome 1y ago|2 comments
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by somethingsome 1y ago
While I agree overall, LLMs are pattern matching in a complicated way. You transform your training data in a very strange and high dimensional space. Then when you write an input, you calculate the distance between that input and the closes
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by somethingsome 1y ago
The colors are reading writing operations ;) You have global memory and shared memory, the global is slower. You read in rows in the global memory (faster than reading columns) You write in columns in the shared memory (slower than in rows,
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by somethingsome 1y ago
Oh that could be useful as well!
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by somethingsome 1y ago
Take a triangle, put a different color on each vertex, tri-interpolate
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by somethingsome 1y ago
I find that gradient are really badly handled usually in svg softwares, I hope this can improve it. In inkscape you can make only a one direction gradient, never a gradient with more than 2 points, I don't know if it is a limitation of
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by somethingsome 1y ago
Hey, if you have working (shearable) material that you use for teaching interns, I would be interested!
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by somethingsome 1y ago
Mostly because I can't personally compare, I wasn't comparing in the first place, I just didn't agree with one point of the article. I don't use much the Healthcare system in Europe, but I knew someone that had a very ra
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by somethingsome 1y ago
I actually work in close relationship with hospitals, there is a lack in quality of life for doctors, most of their salary is extremely taxed, they are extremely overworked and with very bad working conditions. They often move out of the co
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by somethingsome 1y ago
> The European mindset, on the other hand, prioritizes collective well-being and ensuring a high quality of life for everyone. Sounds completely false to me, people are not happy in general (maybe only previous generations), and even les
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Quiver for Commutative Math Diagrams(q.uiver.app)
1 points by somethingsome 1y ago|0 comments
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by somethingsome 1y ago
Honestly, in academia you have good hands too, just not every lab. As in business, you also have not so good businesses. Giving it to academia can 10x the result, but yes research is risky, that's why it's important it is founded
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by somethingsome 1y ago
I like the idea of having a dataset for physics, but those entries are very basics, most of the physics happens with very complicated maths and it will be difficult to make an entry for a lot of physics. For example, imagine the entry for t

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