johan_felisaz

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by johan_felisaz 1y ago
Nitpick of the nitpick... Temperature is actually an intensive quantity, i.e. combining two subsystems with the same temperature yields a bigger system with the same temperature, not twice bigger.
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by johan_felisaz 2y ago
The anthropologist Philippe Descola with his main work Beyond Nature and Culture has been trying to classify the nature/culture relations by studying comparatively several societies.
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by johan_felisaz 2y ago
The section on comp time is written in a way which makes you think that zig invented the concept. It slightly irritated the lisper in me... Great article apart from that.
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Artificial Life Course(vassi.life)
3 points by johan_felisaz 2y ago|0 comments
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by johan_felisaz 2y ago
Coming from a quantum physics point of view, it is very strange to see the term "topological fields" in this context ! Do you have recommended references about these grammatical constructs ?
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by johan_felisaz 3y ago
There is an expanding field of study looking at machine learning with statistical physics tools. While there is still a lot of work to do in this area, it yields interesting insights on neural networks, e.g. linking their training with the
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by johan_felisaz 4y ago
I feel like it would have been nicer to have a perfect match with orgmode syntax (e.g. they use square brackets instead of chevrons for time stamps). It would make migration easier... Really impressive project nonetheless!
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by johan_felisaz 4y ago
I would recommend this: https://m.youtube.com/user/CBaggers/featured This is a real project, this guy wrote a compiler, to convert common lisp to GLSL (I'm not talking about a simple DSL with code generatio
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by johan_felisaz 4y ago
Does it come from somewhere or you just made that up ? I have a really strong feeling of déjà vu but cannot figure out from where.
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Ask HN: Best Way to Search for Lyrics?
3 points by johan_felisaz 4y ago|1 comments
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by johan_felisaz 4y ago
Could you explain a bit more what do you mean by "cyberphysical artsystem" ? I have no clue what this is, but the name sounds cool
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by johan_felisaz 4y ago
https://jfelisaz.eu Nothing fancy, just a static page with CV. But writing a crude org mode -> HTML generator in AWK was fun
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by johan_felisaz 4y ago
I am too young to have played Morrowind at its release date, so I am not biased by nostalgia. Honestly, with a couple graphics enhancing mods, it can still look beautiful today. Of course not the NPCs, but the artistic direction for the lan
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by johan_felisaz 5y ago
Genuine question, what would be the idiomatic way of doing an impure operation multiple times in J/APL ? (e.g. if writing an interpreter loop) I was wondering if it's doable without the while. and other constructs (which honestly
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by johan_felisaz 5y ago
I'd advice reading the famous article "More is different" by P. W. Anderson. It takes condensed matter physics as a counter example that knowledge is a pyramid, and that e.g. biology is just applied chemistry, which is just a
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by johan_felisaz 5y ago
Seeing this really makes me want to do a LateX code generator in Lisp
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by johan_felisaz 5y ago
Talking from my experience, despite its undeniable advantages to fight climate change, the general hostility of the public opinion towards fission (or nuclear in general) refrained me from pursuing this path...
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by johan_felisaz 5y ago
Totally out of topic, but I highly recommend it ... (Not technically a spoiler) I really liked the parallel betweens the bad guys' language, which was manipulative to the extreme, and the good guys' language, which was of course l
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by johan_felisaz 5y ago
I'm curious, sources ?
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by johan_felisaz 5y ago
I am surprised that they are serious when saying "even a single person being offended is one too many". Not want to start yet another flamewar on CoCs, but how is such a rule even practically enforced ? Given it's impossible
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by johan_felisaz 5y ago
Depends on what you do. I've been glad to use pencil in the past, since it is water resistant compared to pen. Useful when you spill coffee on your notebook, or leave your hiking journal in the rain like me ...
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by johan_felisaz 5y ago
Indeed. Given the fast startup time of Python, I've always just restarted the session (which is most of the time faster than typing "import importlib; importlib.reload()" haha)
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by johan_felisaz 5y ago
Of course, these packages are fantastic, they do help a lot for more experienced users. But for a pure beginner, there is a high risk he will give up Julia after 10s of Plots.jl compilation, way before we would hear about these. (and tbh, e
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by johan_felisaz 5y ago
I think most of the criticisms against Julia come from the fact that people see it as a Python competitor. In its actual state (even if the last version improved compile time a bit), it is not really usable as an exact python replacement (s
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by johan_felisaz 5y ago
How is it working exactly ? Since it is a change in the algorithm, could it be put on a GPU to go even faster afterwards, or is it too sequential for that ?
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by johan_felisaz 5y ago
Probably out of topic, but are there real examples of compiler attacks due to bootstrapping ? I did not hear about them before reading the scifi classic Accelerando by C. Stross
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by johan_felisaz 6y ago
I'm curious, what are your other reasons for SD ? Battery / data savings ?
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A Grammar of Ithkuil, a constructed philosophical language(ithkuil.net)
3 points by johan_felisaz 6y ago|0 comments