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mrdmnd
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About mrdmnd
Views expressed in HN comments are my own.
mttrdmnd@gmail.com
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Comment #41523544
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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Comment #39850635
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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Comment #34223285
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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Comment #23707048
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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Comment #21939928
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…