madlag

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by madlag 3y ago
Stability is actually defined by having a lower energy level. That explains why energy can only flow from a less stable system to a more stable system : the more stable system does not have available energy to give.
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by madlag 3y ago
Yes, it's Unity based, so quite easy. There is another version on Quest too, so running on Android : https://www.meta.com/fr-fr/experiences/6113695908674751/ .
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by madlag 3y ago
I love the idea, that's the future. However you should be aware that the explanation of second law of thermodynamics generated by the LLM you used in your app store screenshot is wrong: the LLM has it backwards. Energy transfers to les
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by madlag 4y ago
May I add another method: block fine-pruning of transformers (pruning while fine-tuning) ? https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.04838 Using blocks allows to keep good performence on GPUS, while giving some flexibility in the pru
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by madlag 4y ago
Thanks for the pointer, I will definitely have a look at this format, I was not aware of this.
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by madlag 4y ago
Thanks! Yes, that’s the way to go. There is only a compromise between code simplicity/specialization and compression performance. And another point is the ability to use the format in memory without too much decoding or overhead when o
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by madlag 4y ago
Thanks for the kind words! Yes, file size for live action or shipping directly in an app is always an issue. I may actually contribute some code, my file format is no rocket science, just a bare set of floats with some metas, not even some
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by madlag 4y ago
Thanks for this! I have been working on something similar for an upcoming education app, record a course and play in the same app with a compact file format (1MB per minute, could be much less with some tricks). You can see a demo here : h
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by madlag 6y ago
Efficiency of solar panels on satellites is about 40%. That means ~ 700W/m2 if correctly oriented. That's quite a lot of power, even if you stay 50% of the time in night while orbiting Earth. So no need for huge panels usually. (U
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Show HN: Pytorch_block_sparse: smaller, faster neural networks(twitter.com)
6 points by madlag 6y ago|0 comments
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by madlag 7y ago
OpenAI just announced it will port its sparse libraries to PyTorch, so exciting times ahead! You can read more here about this (OP here) : https://medium.com/huggingface/is-the-future-of-neural-netwo...
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by madlag 7y ago
I don't think you have the right numbers in mind talking about the compute you need for AI. The prices are getting lower and lower of course, but you still need tons of money to train the kind of networks that make the news.
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by madlag 9y ago
What a pity they did not call it Rama ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama
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by madlag 10y ago
Reminds me a bit too much of Interstellar's Blight. http://interstellarfilm.wikia.com/wiki/The_Blight
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by madlag 10y ago
There is no such thing as a dumb rocket : to get down, they are using almost exactly the same stuff they use to get up, weight wise: they use the gimbaled engines, and the nitrogen attitude thrusters. The only additional devices are the gri
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by madlag 11y ago
It reminds me so much of my young years on Atari #8bitnostalgia ;-)
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by madlag 11y ago
Yes, that's one of the method that was used: from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9284226 : > The first round was cross-domain JavaScript, stopped with an "alert()". Second round was cross-domain &lt
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by madlag 12y ago
My daughter has been playing it since she was 7, it's really cool to teach the basics of programming, and more generally to improve accuracy of spatial and time reasoning.
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by madlag 12y ago
So you choose to suffer the bad sides of the government without taking any advantage from it ? You are free to do so, but is it really the wisest solution when you are just looking for a solution to survive ? And isn't it a form of chu
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by madlag 12y ago
Yes, of course, no paperwork at all would be perfect, you don't want to waste your time on anything but your job, but the benefits are really worth it. And to answer you, I had to do some reporting, yes.
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by madlag 12y ago
I can assure you that you will want the government to help, especially when you don't have any money to start your business. You should ask a few entrepreneurs about this.
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by madlag 12y ago
You don't have to make some profit to benefit it, as you get employer taxes back for R&D employees, which can be very important, something like 40% of employee cost. It lowers a lot cost per employee.
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by madlag 12y ago
Wow, that's a great deal of french bashing in such a short comment. I agree that the immigration laws must be a real pain for some people. But for the rest, you must have been out of luck : - tax reduction schemes are a no brainer, you
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by madlag 12y ago
Nice landing page, I really can't wait to test the app !
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by madlag 12y ago
You can have fused information from CoreLocation, with some smoothing and so with lower time resolution, but you can have too raw data from the gyro / accelerometer.
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by madlag 12y ago
You're welcome and thanks for the encouragement ! Actually, when you get the timings ok you don't need anymore some "runtime" adjustments, everything is fixed in advance. You just have to get the calibration data for eve
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by madlag 12y ago
Hi srean ! One of the author of steady speaking. Hyperlapse tech looks like a lot Steady, because when you are using the same gyro data, you're quite bound to follow the same maths to compensate the camera shake. About the gyro stream
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by madlag 12y ago
It looks like that if you turn the device, the recording interface switch to 16/9, so you can do both.
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by madlag 12y ago
Nice stuff ! I am wondering how we could use it to improve some of our stuff with this ...
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by madlag 12y ago
It's usual for CCD sensors in space to have such artifacts, due to energetic particles. It's true for a camera on Mars too, as the atmosphere is way too thin to protect from solar particles. http://www.eso.org/~oha

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