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mrdmnd

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About mrdmnd

Matthew Redmond - Data Engineer, Linear Algebraicist, and Computational Geometer. Executor all sorts of shenanigans at Google X.

Views expressed in HN comments are my own.

mttrdmnd@gmail.com

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    Yeah, I think this is the goal - remember; there are some problems that only need to be solved correctly once! Imagine something like a millennium problem - you'd be willing to wai…

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    I've been doing some reading on LLMs for protein/RNA structure prediction and I think there's a decent amount of work on SO3 invariant transformer architectures now

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    Comment #34932718

    ex-Loon engineer reporting in. Can confirm, I'm having a good chuckle.

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    Comment #34255078

    When new players learn Go, they're told to "lose their first fifty games as fast as possible."

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    Location: San Francisco, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C++, Rust, Python, Java, Scala, Lua, PostGIS, SQL, all the standard geospatial data science stuff Résu…

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    Comment #32870491

    I bet the folks at Skydio would want to talk to you.

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    Comment #32870466

    this reminds me a bit of Cockatrice - hope your version ends up cooler though!

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    Comment #32130554

    I can't believe anyone else remembers this game but my best friend in elementary school and I used to spend our entire sleepovers playing Oni. What a legend.

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    Comment #29975495

    Good note; thanks! If a mod wants to change the link to that one, it'd be great.

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    Ask HN: Would you show up to an adult math circle?

    Traditionally, math circles are a group activity where a bunch of young students get together to discuss mathematics that they might not have otherwise seen in school. I'm a mid-ca…

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    Comment #27217849

    Looking at the datasheet, it looks like there's one qubit with quite a bit worse error/noise than the others - anyone know why this might be?

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    Comment #26254912

    Somewhat relatedly, this reminds me of the instruction I learned about recently: the PEXT instruction. https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/documen...

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    Comment #25139282

    This is the best comment I've ever seen describing the actual practice of mathematics.

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    Comment #24273751

    (as a historical aside, the name is "Quipper" because I kept trying to pronounce the project name (ChromeOS-Wide Profiling, or CWP) and ended up quite liking "Quip". The internal a…

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    Comment #24273691

    Fun fact, I wrote the first version of this code as a Google Intern. Imagine my surprise when I saw that they're still using it, and it's been developed and fleshed out!

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    This is an interesting look at how transit is shifting around public Micromobility options like scooters and bike share. Notably, commute hours seem to be drifting away from bimoda…

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    Comment #23023843

    I think Bayesian Optimization is what you're looking for here. There's an internal tool at google ("Vizier") for which a white paper has been published that solves this exact probl…

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    Location: San Francisco Bay Area Remote: Yes, flexible. Willing to relocate: no Technologies: C, C++, Python, Scala, Mathematica, Matlab Resume: Contact me directly Email: mttrdmnd…

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    Comment #17668957

    Just remember, http://funroll-loops.teurasporsaat.org/

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    Comment #17667593

    I saw an article on here a few days ago that suggested you could detect isotopes present in "more recent" forgeries that came about as the result of the nuclear testing age that wo…