guyomes

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by guyomes 7d ago
One book cited several times in the preprint of OP is the volume 2 of the famous book series of Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, notably its section 4.6.4. For readers interested in this kind of results, it is a really interesting ga
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by guyomes 2mo ago
> I found that it was an overflow in the glue code (now fixed) that converts the exact rationals coordinates of the output mesh, for which we prove the specification, to floats Preserving the topology of mesh intersections while rounding
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by guyomes 3mo ago
An interesting approach is the dual GPL and commercial license. This is used for example by the CGAL geometry library [1]. In this case, a user of the library has the choice of either paying for the library, or open sourcing the code of the
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by guyomes 3mo ago
Some libraries let you borrow Playstation video games. I wonder if those libraries will have access to a system that allows people to borrow digital video games.
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by guyomes 3mo ago
Beyond the technical aspects, this new technology also leads to fundamental social changes. In particular, until now, mathematics were one of the rare sciences were great scientists could emerge from any country with a good education system
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by guyomes 3mo ago
The data centers can also be used to heat swimming pools [1]. [1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64939558
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by guyomes 3mo ago
> IDK how the custom hardware exploits this; would love to hear any ideas! You might like this article [1], titled "FPGA-based CNN Acceleration using Pattern-Aware Pruning". More context and details can be found in the PhD thes
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by guyomes 3mo ago
> They are a company offering a product and they decided not to offer it to kids. It's not like they are telling you as a parent what you need to do. Fair enough! Indeed that would be a true issue only if the company had a monopoly.
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by guyomes 3mo ago
> They can play with AI at home Actually, in Europe, Gemini is officially not available for kids even at home [1]. In some countries like Germany, the restriction applies until 16 [2]. I find unsettling that even for supervised account,
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by guyomes 3mo ago
This reminds me an interview of the author Patrick Modiano, just after he won the literature Nobel price. The presenter asked him if the money would help. His answer was something like: "well, I don't see how the money will help t
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by guyomes 5mo ago
> How do we handle AI doing creative work? How do we treat AI creative work? How much creative work do we feel comfortable handing over to AI? Just as a good for thought, looking back into history, during the late 1920s, mass production
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by guyomes 6mo ago
You might be interested in a new experimental 3D scene learning and rendering approach called Radiant foam [1], which is supposed to be better suited for GPUs that don't have hardware ray tracing acceleration. [1]: https://r
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by guyomes 6mo ago
In this regard, the subreddit r/NeutralPolitics is interesting: it aims at evidence-based discussions on political issues. Threads are somehow in-between HN and Wikipedia. It is definitely interesting to read, and at the same time, par
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by guyomes 7mo ago
According to the book "A Convergence of Civilizations" from Youssef Courbage and Emmanuel Todd [1], the Iran revolution actually happened at the end of the 70s. And indeed, the political situation is not stable yet. The authors ar
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by guyomes 7mo ago
The flow of ideas goes both ways between AI and economy. Notably, the economist Friedrich Hayek [1] was a source of inspiration in the development of AI. He wrote in 1945 on the idea that the price mechanism serves to share and synchronise
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by guyomes 7mo ago
> They can get rid of 1/3-2/3s of their labor and make the same amount of money, why wouldn't they. Competition may encourage companies to keep their labor. For example, in the video game industry, if the competitors of a
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by guyomes 8mo ago
> You can use a language server perfectly easily with Vim, Emacs, Helix, Sublime, etc. By the way, the language server protocol was originally developed for VSCode [1]. The popularity of LSP in other editors might have contributed to adv
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by guyomes 9mo ago
Here is an overview of related restrictions in other countries [1]. Actually, in many European countries, Google does not grant access to Gemini for people under 16yo [2,3]. [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/articles&
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by guyomes 10mo ago
The best implementation I know of digital ID is the one in Estonia. It comes with a data tracker, such that each citizen can see who exactly has been looking at their data [1]. [1]: https://e-estonia.com/digital-id-protectin
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by guyomes 10mo ago
This reminds me of a hoax from the Yes Men [1]. They convinced temporarily the BBC that a company agreed to a compensation package for the victims of a chemical disaster, which resulted in a 4.23 percent decrease of the share price of the c
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by guyomes 1y ago
I wonder if it works better if we ask the LLM to produce a script that extract the resulting list, and then we run the script on the two input lists. There is also the question of the two input lists: it's not clear if it is better to
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by guyomes 1y ago
> under the same conditions That's a very interesting question. When comparing wildly different computing machines, how to make a fair comparison? At least two criteria comes in mind: the volume and the energy consumption. Indeed we
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by guyomes 1y ago
> Has this always been an issue in academia, or is this an increasing or new phenomenon? The introduction of this article [1] gives an insight on the metric used in the Middle Ages. Essentially, to keep his position in a university, a re
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by guyomes 1y ago
On video game consoles, the concept of taking control away from users seems common. There was some Linux kit for the Playstation 2 for example [1]. On more recent console, the process is not facilitated, to say the least [2]. [1]: https:&#
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by guyomes 1y ago
> Every time someone makes a confident prediction about the future 10 or more years out all I can think of is the Population Bomb book Fortunately, almost twenty years before the Population Bomb book, others such as Alfred Sauvy were alr
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by guyomes 1y ago
> Does Google have similar deals in other countries Wikipedia has pages on antitrust cases against Google in the world [0] and specifically in U.S. [1,2] and in European Union [3]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by guyomes 1y ago
For the form, you might be interested in Ethica, by Spinoza [1]. On the other hand, for fact checking, the key concept seems to be trust in sources rather than logical consistency. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spi
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by guyomes 1y ago
See also the Wikipedia page on the unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics, notably in biology and economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreasonable_ineffectiveness_o...
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by guyomes 1y ago
A generalisation of this idea is known as Taylor model in 1998 [1]. It might even have been known in 1984 as neighborhood arithmetic [2]. The generalisation works by taking a Taylor expansion of the function up to order n, and then by using
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by guyomes 2y ago
My anecdotal tests and several benchmarks suggest that Qwen2-VL-72b [0] is better than the tested models (even better than Claude 3.5 Sonnet), notably for OCR applications. It has been available since October 2024. [0]: https://h

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