viscousviolin

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by viscousviolin 20d ago
If someone has an old GPU laying around, say a GTX 1080 with 8 GB of memory, would that be enough to get a (small?) local model running?
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Origami research takes top prize at 2026 Regeneron ISEF competition(snexplores.org)
2 points by viscousviolin 2mo ago|1 comments
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by viscousviolin 2mo ago
The software that won the competition seems to map the configuration space of an origami crease pattern using techniques from statistical mechanics - pretty snazzy! More technical details here: https://isef.net/project/
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by viscousviolin 5mo ago
Does it usually get taught in the undergrad maths curriculum?
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by viscousviolin 5mo ago
Seems like Katex from the scripts getting loaded. I love the design too, kinda medieval-chic.
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by viscousviolin 5mo ago
Today I learned there's a CSS property for styling the first letter of a paragraph, neat. ( https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/i/initial-letter/ ) --edit: The font used for those initials is ca
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by viscousviolin 6mo ago
Thank you!
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by viscousviolin 6mo ago
Is there a notification channel you can subscribe to / look at if you want to stay up to date on compromised PyPI packages?
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by viscousviolin 6mo ago
That's a great find. My personal favourite so far from Dust is "Laboratory Conditions": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N25e4Ss34Q
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by viscousviolin 6mo ago
That's a lovely bit of automation.
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by viscousviolin 7mo ago
I've never read up on the republic of Venice, but after quickly scanning the Wikipedia article on its election procedure... that is a strangely large number of voting rounds and lotteries.
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by viscousviolin 7mo ago
Agreed, I'm not sure if it can be made to work either. I have an inkling of a thought that instead of an egalitarian society being required for lottocracy to work, an egalitarian society can be created using lottocracy. But it's j
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by viscousviolin 7mo ago
It's a potentially big problem for sure. It reminds me of stories I've heard about the public education system in some of the Scandinavian countries. From what I remember off the top of my head, Finland has a system where private
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by viscousviolin 7mo ago
I heard about lottocracy/sortition for the first time not long ago and I quite like the idea. The last time was when I heard a professor talk about it, and I was recommended reading the book "Lottocracy: Democracy Without Election
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Introduction to Formal Real Analysis(alexkontorovich.github.io)
1 points by viscousviolin 8mo ago|1 comments
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by viscousviolin 8mo ago
Lecture recordings available here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs6rMe3K87LHu03WWh9rE... And the interactive tutorial server can be found here: https://adam.math.hhu.de/#/g/alexkontorovic
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by viscousviolin 8mo ago
Something I'd love to see is a Europe-hosted mirror of software repositories like pypi, juliahub, and the like. It feels pretty essential to have these be available no matter what, but I haven't found any such mirrors.
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by viscousviolin 8mo ago
It's amazing to hear it's visible in such a big city. I don't have a good intuition for all the metrics that describe how strong this storm was/is, but when put like this it hits home. Nice to hear earth weather apps als
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by viscousviolin 8mo ago
Could you see it from the inner city or only closer to the edges?
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Lean Game Server(adam.math.hhu.de)
2 points by viscousviolin 8mo ago|0 comments
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Linear Algebra Game(adam.math.hhu.de)
2 points by viscousviolin 8mo ago|0 comments
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An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm(bbc.com)
185 points by viscousviolin 8mo ago|180 comments
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by viscousviolin 8mo ago
The first time I heard of it was in this Matt Parker video where he helped do this with a school-sized group of kids [0]. An "AI player" made of matchboxes, run by schoolkids, is a fantastically fun idea. [0] https://ww
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by viscousviolin 10mo ago
Thanks! I'll go give it a look.
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by viscousviolin 10mo ago
Sounds like a fun topic to dig into. Do you have any papers or books you'd recommend?
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by viscousviolin 1y ago
3blue1brown has a great series of videos on the central limit theorem, and it makes me wish there were something similar covering the generalised form in a similar format. I have a textbook on my reading list that covers it, unfortunately I
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by viscousviolin 1y ago
I'm no security researcher, but this hits close to home for me personally.
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Enumerating All Fractions(math.stackexchange.com)
2 points by viscousviolin 1y ago|0 comments
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Second Godot Engine Newsletter(godot.news)
3 points by viscousviolin 2y ago|0 comments
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by viscousviolin 2y ago
Version control is fantastic, and you can get quite creative with it too. Git scraping for example ( https://simonwillison.net/2021/Dec/7/git-history/ ). But as nice as Git is, people who are not trained t

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