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amuresan
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About amuresan
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Comment #49087450
Moving to exact predicates on top of floating point numbers would be a big speed boost. CGAL does this.
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Comment #42307678
The link you posted is behind a login, do you have a public profile?
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Comment #41965889
Hi Mihai! This is impressive work! Are you aware of any other computational maths problems where a sufficiently motivated amateur could make an improvement on the state of the art?…
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Comment #39970005
93 is my best score so far
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Comment #39969130
Great game! thanks for sharing
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Comment #39887463
Related to the Coral accelerator, is it usable as a general accelerator outside AI workflows? When I looked into it, there was no general SDK on using the Coral, only an "ingest ML…
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Comment #36325545
Not surprising. It always seemed likely to me that there is model bias if you train your models on model generated data, like a feedback loop (second order effects?). Similar to ho…
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Comment #35492914
Not a direct answer, but last year I got a 13" eink second screen and it's been the best investment I made for my eye health since getting glasses. The difference was noticeable fr…
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Comment #34389341
What do you mean by crop in frequency domain? Low pass filtering i.e. removing higher frequency components?
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Comment #26846912
Thanks, will give them a try. Any advice on what to get?
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Comment #26835689
Getting an eink secondary monitor for my workstation. I use to get pretty bad eye strain that lasted for days from LCD screens. It got so bad I forgot how it feels to wake up witho…
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Ask HN: What are your thoughts on investing in tech?
The growth of tech in the past 6 months seems too high given the uncertainty of recent times (not having a working covid vaccine, the potential of a second wave, medium / long term…
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Comment #23679318
Fair point. At the same time the exact computation paradigm is proof that problems like these can be solved in a rigorous way if you start with the right foundation. By the way tha…
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Comment #23676817
One geometric model that actually handles numerical approximations is called exact geometric computation. It's pretty interesting and starts by explicitly tracking arithmetic error…
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Comment #20970625
At https://www.3dhubs.com we're using Rust to build the geometry processing side of our platform, which is the most computationally intensive custom part. Previously it was in C++ …
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Comment #19651413
It might also be specific to the niche you're hiring for. What's your field of operation? What technologies / technical disciplines are you looking for?
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Comment #19198536
https://adimuresan.com/ Personal website that I've been wanting to turn into a blog about computational (differential) geometry, applied mathematics, performance optimization and d…
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Comment #18794026
Could someone with a better understanding of the topic give a brief example of how this can be used in practice?
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Comment #18665175
Will check it out, thanks!
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Comment #18662508
1. La peste (Albert Camus) - entertaining if you're into French existentialism 2. Linked (Barabasi) - insightful and useful to understand that most phenomenon we see in real life f…
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Ask HN: Pros and cons of working as a freelancer?
Let's do some freelancer mithbusting! Which of the following are true in your experience? 1. Exposure to a diverse set of work environments; 2. Exposure to a diverse set of technol…
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Ask HN: Software engineers earning = 200k€ in Europe, how did you get there?
Share your story. In more detail: How did you get there? What is your field? How long have you been in it? What are you working on now? Where are you located?
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Comment #17793030
Pretty cool! How about turning this into a service where other people can lease their own GPU hardware? Either through your website or by offering it as a sort of turnkey solution.…
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Comment #17638141
Thank you so much for your insightful and educational response.