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amuresan

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About amuresan

Hello, my name's Adrian. More about me here: https://adimuresan.com/

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    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.