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> I found that it was an overflow in the glue code (now fixed) that converts the exact rationals coordinates of the output mesh, for which we prove the specification, to floats Pre…

An interesting approach is the dual GPL and commercial license. This is used for example by the CGAL geometry library [1]. In this case, a user of the library has the choice of eit…

Some libraries let you borrow Playstation video games. I wonder if those libraries will have access to a system that allows people to borrow digital video games.

Beyond the technical aspects, this new technology also leads to fundamental social changes. In particular, until now, mathematics were one of the rare sciences were great scientist…

The data centers can also be used to heat swimming pools [1]. [1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64939558

> IDK how the custom hardware exploits this; would love to hear any ideas! You might like this article [1], titled "FPGA-based CNN Acceleration using Pattern-Aware Pruning". More c…

> They are a company offering a product and they decided not to offer it to kids. It's not like they are telling you as a parent what you need to do. Fair enough! Indeed that would…

> They can play with AI at home Actually, in Europe, Gemini is officially not available for kids even at home [1]. In some countries like Germany, the restriction applies until 16 …

This reminds me an interview of the author Patrick Modiano, just after he won the literature Nobel price. The presenter asked him if the money would help. His answer was something …

> How do we handle AI doing creative work? How do we treat AI creative work? How much creative work do we feel comfortable handing over to AI? Just as a good for thought, looking b…

You might be interested in a new experimental 3D scene learning and rendering approach called Radiant foam [1], which is supposed to be better suited for GPUs that don't have hardw…

In this regard, the subreddit r/NeutralPolitics is interesting: it aims at evidence-based discussions on political issues. Threads are somehow in-between HN and Wikipedia. It is de…

According to the book "A Convergence of Civilizations" from Youssef Courbage and Emmanuel Todd [1], the Iran revolution actually happened at the end of the 70s. And indeed, the pol…

The flow of ideas goes both ways between AI and economy. Notably, the economist Friedrich Hayek [1] was a source of inspiration in the development of AI. He wrote in 1945 on the id…

> They can get rid of 1/3-2/3s of their labor and make the same amount of money, why wouldn't they. Competition may encourage companies to keep their labor. For example, in the vid…

> You can use a language server perfectly easily with Vim, Emacs, Helix, Sublime, etc. By the way, the language server protocol was originally developed for VSCode [1]. The popular…

Here is an overview of related restrictions in other countries [1]. Actually, in many European countries, Google does not grant access to Gemini for people under 16yo [2,3]. [1] ht…

The best implementation I know of digital ID is the one in Estonia. It comes with a data tracker, such that each citizen can see who exactly has been looking at their data [1]. [1]…

This reminds me of a hoax from the Yes Men [1]. They convinced temporarily the BBC that a company agreed to a compensation package for the victims of a chemical disaster, which res…

I wonder if it works better if we ask the LLM to produce a script that extract the resulting list, and then we run the script on the two input lists. There is also the question of …

> under the same conditions That's a very interesting question. When comparing wildly different computing machines, how to make a fair comparison? At least two criteria comes in mi…

> Has this always been an issue in academia, or is this an increasing or new phenomenon? The introduction of this article [1] gives an insight on the metric used in the Middle Ages…

On video game consoles, the concept of taking control away from users seems common. There was some Linux kit for the Playstation 2 for example [1]. On more recent console, the proc…

> Every time someone makes a confident prediction about the future 10 or more years out all I can think of is the Population Bomb book Fortunately, almost twenty years before the P…

> Does Google have similar deals in other countries Wikipedia has pages on antitrust cases against Google in the world [0] and specifically in U.S. [1,2] and in European Union [3].…