V1ndaar

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by V1ndaar 16d ago
Multiverse Computing is one of the weirdest companies I've encountered here in Europe/Spain. Their product / job application descriptions are just technobabble. Despite my doubts I applied to one of their positions a couple o
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by V1ndaar 4mo ago
Huh, I completely missed that. I've been using python-garminconnect [0] for a few months without issues. I agree though that it's annoying, though not reason enough for me to switch away from Garmin yet. [0]: https:/&#x2F
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by V1ndaar 11mo ago
It's cheap to hide behind a pseudonym here and complain as you do. Given the time scales you mention and how you are complaining, I have a theory under what nick you were present in the Nim community though. If I'm correct, I find
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by V1ndaar 2y ago
I didn't realize Keras was actually released before Tensorflow, huh. I used Theano quite a bit in 2014 and early 2015, but then went a couple years without any ML work. Compared to the modern libraries Theano is clunky, but it taught o
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by V1ndaar 2y ago
Location: Spain (80%) | Germany (20%) Remote: Preferred, but open to hybrid positions in Spain Willing to relocate: Not currently, but open to work-related travel Technologies/Skills: - Languages: Nim, C, C++,
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by V1ndaar 2y ago
I would blame the majority of your criticism on the fact that HN is not the best place to read code. Also, syntax highlighting & basic familiarity with Nim helps. His code is doing a few more things than necessary. The actual algorithm
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by V1ndaar 2y ago
That is certainly true (and why added a general "embed plot data as bitmap into SVG/PDF" option to https://github.com/Vindaar/ggplotnim that works not only for raster heatmaps). But realistically such pl
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by V1ndaar 2y ago
And not only that, in many cases they will tell you (if they reply) "oh, we can't find the source of that plot anymore". Happened to me quite a few times (although in physics). I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one w
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by V1ndaar 3y ago
Thanks your your input. You made me realize I can use my Hetzner storage box for precisely the same. Neat!
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by V1ndaar 3y ago
> The Datamancer data frame library is incredibly robust. Thank you for the kind words! :) Especially given that it's a one-man side-project always makes me a bit worried people will stumble over all sorts of issues.
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by V1ndaar 3y ago
My hope is that thanks to stuff like DLSS frame generation in video games (or maybe AR/VR) that the opinion of a majority of people will change over time. So that eventually maybe... we might actually see movies being filmed in higher
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by V1ndaar 3y ago
I nowhere said impossible! All I say it is tricky and that likely the code you write will have to be adapted in certain cases (compared to current existing implementations of numerical algorithms).
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by V1ndaar 3y ago
I mean that article of yours highlights the difficulties one encounters fairly well, I would say. I don't disagree that this is (generally) a tricky problem! Nim allows you to do a lot, e.g. derivatives of a unitful expression with mea
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by V1ndaar 3y ago
Yeah, unicode characters in Nim code are supported. However, if by `x²` you'd want to square an identifier `x`, that won't work. The Nim lexer parses `x²` as a single identifier. We do have infix unicode operators though. So `x ÷
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by V1ndaar 3y ago
Gaussian elimination in what context even? If your LA library supports generic types, it might work. But generally generic math operations are tricky to get right, because math often does things that from a pure physical perspective don&#x2
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by V1ndaar 3y ago
Whoops, guilty as charged. I did indeed glance over that (both the text and the equation not actually being 1/r²). In this case to get compiler help it's pretty much identical to Numbat. Annotating the "force" variables
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by V1ndaar 3y ago
Or you could just use Nim [0], where this sort of thing can be implemented in Nim's macro system. Then you have a regular programming language combined with CT safe units. :) It even pretty much looks identical to those Numbat snippets
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by V1ndaar 3y ago
> An obvious question when formalising a maths paper is how much the proof needed to change to be formalised: in other words whether there were any flaws in the paper. This question is surprisingly subtle, but a simple summary is that mo
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by V1ndaar 3y ago
Oh, thanks a lot for the clarification! And thanks for the work on the book in general. :) I need to look into the changes then. The spectrum implementation of the 3rd version served as inspiration for an X-ray raytracer I've been work
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by V1ndaar 3y ago
Pretty sure the 3rd edition already contained that, no? At that time (not sure if that's still the case now) the choice was a compile time option, iirc.
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by V1ndaar 3y ago
Evince does the same. It's a great feature, I agree.
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by V1ndaar 3y ago
I mean honestly, the closest language to Mojo really is Nim. In the latest Lex Fridman interview with Chris Lattner [0] when he talks about his ideas behind Mojo it pretty much sounds like he's describing Nim. Ok fair, he wants Mojo to
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by V1ndaar 3y ago
For me it is partially that for sure. There's plenty of stuff I would - in theory - not mind to post publicly. E.g. my personal notes about interesting stuff I stumble on, want to read up on, how to troubleshoot stuff etc. But the issu
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by V1ndaar 3y ago
Honestly, the "golden days" of using reddit for that purpose are over, too. Both the fact that random other crap comes up due to how stuff is linked on reddit and generally most search engines being too lenient with your search te
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by V1ndaar 3y ago
Sure, it's very common to flush a system with dry nitrogen for that reason. But of course if you have to fully open a part of the system you're usually out of luck (also you usually don't have valves at every intersection etc
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by V1ndaar 3y ago
It seems really neat! I recently received a .usdz file and was hoping this would be able to work with it. Unfortunately, that's not the case yet (but there's an issue about it [0]). Compiling the entire OpenUSD framework was a bit
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by V1ndaar 3y ago
For people scared off by C++ and who want faster recompile times, check out the Nim bindings [0]. Check out his Twitter/X account [1] for plenty of cool things it brings to the table. [0]: https://github.com/jmgomez&#x2
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by V1ndaar 3y ago
Check out the paper and not a PR piece [0]. [0]: https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01HA2G716KS9YGAGVY1WBVFJ8Y.pdf
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by V1ndaar 3y ago
Nope, that is the old paper about Hubble measurements of the same planet. The preprint of the Webb based paper is here [0] from here [1]. [0]: https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01HA2G716KS9YGAGVY1WBVFJ8Y.pdf [1]: https:/&#x
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by V1ndaar 3y ago
Damn, I read that book as a teenager in 2006 or 07! I've been thinking about a reread whenever I remember it. It was the book that really made me appreciate the whole technological singularity idea back then.

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