JPLeRouzic

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A software thing I built: GPS on a 25MHz 486-SX(forum.vcfed.org)
62 points by JPLeRouzic 14h ago|20 comments
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Teaching an M4 CPU to Tell Stories with XOR, Popcount and SDOT(dnhkng.substack.com)
3 points by JPLeRouzic 5d ago|0 comments
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Tianwen-3 Mars Sample Return Mission Progresses Towards 2028 Launch(china-in-space.com)
3 points by JPLeRouzic 8d ago|0 comments
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by JPLeRouzic 9d ago
I don't think so; prior to 2026, the Russian economy was flourishing, partly due to very high crude oil prices and the existence of a "shadow fleet" of oil tankers. Since 2026, that shadow fleet has been significantly hampere
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by JPLeRouzic 10d ago
I have been consuming dairy products for nearly 70 years and have experienced abdominal cramps after meals, but I hadn't made the connection until recently. In the Western world, 20% of people are lactose intolerant, whereas this figur
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by JPLeRouzic 10d ago
Apparently, the Russian economy is near collapsing; it therefore seems unlikely to me that Russia would be in a position to sustain a war against the EU. On the same issue of the Guardian there is this article: https://www.thegua
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by JPLeRouzic 19d ago
Ah, another "télécommunicant"! I briefly worked on 11F centers back in the 70s and 80s, not E10 family, but in 1999, I salvaged some AM2901 chips from Mitra CPU boards that were headed for the scrap heap. They came from either the
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by JPLeRouzic 20d ago
Thank you!
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by JPLeRouzic 20d ago
In 2020 an interesting article was published: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2388-4 It was titled: Reversing a model of Parkinson’s disease with in situ converted nigral neurons There were some controvers
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French CII's Mitra-15 in SIMH. Work in Progress(github.com)
28 points by JPLeRouzic 20d ago|6 comments
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by JPLeRouzic 20d ago
This is still a pre-Alpha version. If you have memories or documents about the Mitra-15 computer, please can you share them?
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by JPLeRouzic 25d ago
Morrow systems ran on a Unix flavor, could address 16MB all on Z80, had memory protection and could have up to 6 simultaneous users. Micronix was the only Unix-like multiuser system ever to run on an 8 bit processor. https://ia90
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by JPLeRouzic 28d ago
A long time ago, while I am not a scientist nor a MD, I implemented the kind of PSSM* peptide vaccine in PHP and I put the code on Github, then a few years later I removed it. Indeed for the reasons explained in this excellent article it is
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FR LandSpace Zhuque-3 Y2 launch and landing, August 18th/19th 2026 [video](youtube.com)
4 points by JPLeRouzic 29d ago|1 comments
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by JPLeRouzic 29d ago
See also: https://www.china-in-space.com/p/landspace-recovers-chinas-s...
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by JPLeRouzic 1mo ago
Marine Tondelier is right to say that Musk has no right to interfere with French politics, but at the same time she is used a lot of weird extremist stuff. And she is not alone to make bizarre statements in French politics.
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by JPLeRouzic 1mo ago
In China, the organization selling a product that incorporates AI bears responsibility for it; in the Western world, an increasing number of organizations are also concerned about the legal liability associated with AI agents. This seems lo
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by JPLeRouzic 1mo ago
The United States is buying industrial robots from Turkiye? I am delighted for the Turkish people and their ingenuity, but I used to think the United States was "the most advanced country in the world", so to me this is a teaching
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by JPLeRouzic 1mo ago
That's why I won't download that tool.
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by JPLeRouzic 1mo ago
Thanks, this is the most effective advice and probably the least listen to: " The real bottleneck in making a novel medicine is disease understanding "
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The Ones Who Look Outward(centauri-dreams.org)
3 points by JPLeRouzic 1mo ago|0 comments
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by JPLeRouzic 1mo ago
> "that damned the country into a grinding halt for decades" I do not share that impression; I would say that between 1945 and roughly the year 2000, Germany demonstrated remarkable resilience, followed by exceptional capabilit
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Our Moon is two-faced. Science missions unravel its layers(jatan.space)
5 points by JPLeRouzic 1mo ago|0 comments
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by JPLeRouzic 1mo ago
Could it be use of a tainted Claude? For example a user query is transformed to filter the request to and the answer from Claude with a local open source model. Use case: A user asks to find a bug in code, they provide a large piece of code
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by JPLeRouzic 1mo ago
Do they cache results so users can receive already generated answers? If the resellers cache results, how it is done? I am aware it's possible with a KV cache, but those resellers do not have access to Claude's KV memory? If they
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by JPLeRouzic 2mo ago
Please, what does that mean for Maxwell equations? For electromagnetism? (Wikipedia redirects Maxwell's conjecture to Maxwell equations).
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Brain waves once seen as noise could help build a biological model of reality(medicalxpress.com)
3 points by JPLeRouzic 2mo ago|0 comments
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by JPLeRouzic 2mo ago
Ontologies are arbitrary constructs; why should we place more trust in an ontology than in an LLM?
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by JPLeRouzic 2mo ago
> Many of the large plates are more than 1000km across, they’d need to be moving meters per year for that to happen. In reality it’s cm per year. A plate moving one centimeter per year would move over 10,000 km (6000 miles) over a mill
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by JPLeRouzic 2mo ago
> *Orbital rings* I love megastructures, but I think it will take us a thousand years before we possess them (as a species). > *Higher energy density than chemical fuel* That’s true, but it’s a general problem that applies to rockets

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