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ced

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About ced

Data science freelancer in Montreal.

https://github.com/cstjean/

http://www.hackernewsers.com/users/ced.html

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    Comment #36219060

    To be clear, is this a description of your experience with Asahi Linux?

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    Comment #35866544

    Not sure about Common Lisp, but Julia (which is a Lisp in all ways except surface syntax) definitely does.

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    Comment #32454913

    Maybe I'll just show my algebraic ineptitude, but how do you know that g' restores "everything else"? I get that g g' = I, of course, but g T*g'? Rubik cube algebra isn't commutati…

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    Comment #32133548

    But whether all their basins are connected, or whether there are just multiple equivalent basins, is much less clear. What do you mean by "connected"?

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    Comment #31932230

    Whenever a cheaper Uber would come to my city, I'd drop them within a second. Isn't the stickiness that drivers will only switch if customers use it, and customers will only switch…

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    Comment #31845066

    As an aside, Julia's MacroTools.jl defines pre- and post- code walking in four lines: walk(x, inner, outer) = outer(x) walk(x::Expr, inner, outer) = outer(Expr(x.head, map(inner, x…

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    Comment #31752635

    > In 1973, professor Sir James Lighthill was asked by the UK Parliament to evaluate the state of AI research in the United Kingdom. His report, now called the Lighthill report, cri…

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    Comment #29913714

    Were there lots of other children doing the same? Living in eastern Canada I've never really seen what you're describing.

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    Comment #29877524

    Are there bike paths, or does he ride on the road alongside cars?

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    Comment #29706942

    "Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species" It seems that what Marx called socialism is basically communism. By 1888, Marxists employed sociali…

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    Comment #29368406

    Is there any forecast of where the equilibrium happen? Say, if you're in a 1000-people closed society where cryptocurrency is the only thing used to buy stuff, what's the economic …

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    Comment #29345069

    emacs chords always bothered me I got carpal tunnels a few years back from emacs, which forced me to try https://ergoemacs.github.io/ . I like it a lot, it's more sensibly designed…

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    Comment #29198750

    From the link: The CEO sold his previous company's data before founding DDG. His previous company (Names DB) was a surveillance capitalist service designed to coerce naive users to…

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    Comment #27167989

    He admitted to murdering them. (Which is what a guilty plea fundamentally is.) Isn't the accused sometimes advised to plead guilty (regardless of the truth of the matter) because h…

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    Comment #26865014

    FWIW Wikipedia says: > Prion replication is subject to epimutation and natural selection just as for other forms of replication, and their structure varies slightly between species…

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    Comment #26582478

    We did it for production code installed at client sites, and it has been very easy for us. YMMV

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    Comment #26577800

    Anticipating major industry collapse, the Carrier Alliances showed remarkable discipline in aligning supply with demand as early as February; removing trade capacity from the seas …

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    Comment #26519089

    What do you mean, "map values"? There is [sin(x) for x in vec] map(sin, vec) sin.(vec) which are roughly equivalent? Is that what you're referring to?

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    Comment #26466042

    https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/china?country=~CHN You can add US for comparison. China's emissions have been plateauing for the past 10 years, while the US is going down. P…

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    Comment #26090291

    I 100% believe that legacy finance is a massive hindrance to the sustainability of our species, Could you please expand on that? Why?

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    Comment #26075114

    Wouldn't that (similarity matters) be very useful information to encode in the NN though? Kinda like how you can do non-convolutional deep-learning on images, but it takes exponent…

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    Comment #25890021

    How do you feel about drinking water that went through that?

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    Comment #25643752

    Some of the HN comments here are suspicious as well.

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    Comment #25620652

    > while around 3/4 x faster than CPU rendering My understanding is that for neural networks, the speedup is much more than 4x. Does anyone know why there's such a difference?