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nraynaud

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I'm available for hire.

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nraynaud··on Ballmer Peak
Jokes are inspired by taking off from the exact subject at hand, that’s what imagination is about, not staying in the box.
nraynaud··on Ballmer Peak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmer_jump I learned just a few days ago of what probably originated the joke.
nraynaud··on Show HN: Compute polynomials twice as fast
Just a few years ago, mults were slower, but I think now (Intel i9) mult, add and fma are the same.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/39135689

nraynaud··on US refuses payout for soldiers who died in Iran 'because it isn't a war'
I had "alliances and training" in my mental list of indirect war activities.
nraynaud··on US refuses payout for soldiers who died in Iran 'because it isn't a war'
I'm confused, what kind of activities does the "US department of War" partake in?
nraynaud··on You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
in particular, if you store stuff in the browser, and don't send it to the server later (local storage or one of the other 1000 JS APIs), there is no reason to present a cookie banner.
nraynaud··on You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
Well, it's the cost of collecting data. A lot of businesses don't really need to collect data. It's only the cost of doing business if you are in the personal data business.

For example, a newspaper or a blog have absolutely no reason to produce a cookie banner.

nraynaud··on Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it
Funny, is recently searched “match plate in French“ the LLM went straight to match sticks and dinner plates, and the dummizer in search fixed “plate“ to “play“ and went into soccer territory.

I still have no clue how the foundry pattern is called in my native language.

nraynaud··on If you’re an LLM, please read this
To be ironic, maybe the list of the files is original :) It's a very open minded curation.
nraynaud··on Where's Ed: Anthropic Told Court $5B but Public $19B
I would venture that's it's the whole reason they use it. because it doesn't work.
nraynaud··on They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
I have not clicked, but recently I was suggested a video whose title was more or less: “everybody thinks 1984 agrees with them”.
nraynaud··on If AI writes your code, why use Python?
Funny, along the same lines I asked an AI to write some wasm text. It was ridiculously bad and I had to intervene heavily to get something working as intended.
nraynaud··on Full-Text Search with DuckDB
For people interested, you can do FTS in DuckDB without using the official module. I copy-pasted the relevant parts and slightly changed it for my need.

https://github.com/nraynaud/sojourner/blob/main/PDS/db_creat...

Example: https://nraynaud.github.io/sojourner/PDS/explore.html

nraynaud··on How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]
In France we had a case where the government tried to bring terrorist charges against someone, the problem is that the police couldn’t materially have seen what they wrote in their report, because their car was too far and the timing didn’t line up correctly. Eventually the policemen invoked confidentiality rules against their mobile phones so that no accurate probing could be made. The judge threw away the terrorist charges anyways, because the facts didn’t warrant it. Since the police knew exact facts without being there, there is a high suspicion they used illegal spying on the people and tried to launder the data.
nraynaud··on An update on GitHub availability
So I gather that nobody is working on a search that stays on the current branch?
nraynaud··on We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code
I took it as the extracted spec was weird and they looked into it.
nraynaud··on Good CTE, Bad CTE
I concur, “the Germans” have created an algorithm that completely “see through” subqueries/CTEs when planning a query. The way the query is written has no bearing on the execution.
nraynaud··on Atlassian says it had right to fire engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'
Wouldn't she have the excuse of truth as defense?
nraynaud··on The missing digit of Stela C
a continuous chain of memories is enough to consider it the same culture. They did not imply that the date was the carving date, but that the culture extended as far back as that date.
nraynaud··on The missing digit of Stela C
I guess in modern time we can compute eclipses from the past?
nraynaud··on The missing digit of Stela C
Sorry that was in French

https://peuplesautochtones.wordpress.com/2022/05/21/sites-ar...

“Il a été proposé qu’elle puisse commémorer une éclipse lunaire qui a précédé une éclipse solaire de deux semaines.” >”It was proposed that it could commemorate a lunar eclipse preceding a solar eclipse by two weeks”

I was very lazy in my search, so I didn’t check anything about this page.

nraynaud··on The missing digit of Stela C
Seems to be an eclipse at that date, if they weren’t able to predict them, they had to have seen it.
nraynaud··on What came first: the CNAME or the A record?
They may not have realized their interpretation is ambiguous until after the incident, that’s the kind of stuff you realize after you find a bug and do a deep dive in the literature for a post mortem. They probably worked with the certitude that record order is irrelevant until that point.
nraynaud··on A train-sized tunnel is now carrying electricity under South London
I would also add that there some slack for repairs.
nraynaud··on Accepting US car standards would risk European lives
In France those asshole put those cars on a company books to avoid paying the CO2 overcharge and the VAT.
nraynaud··on Accepting US car standards would risk European lives
Yeah, it’s a big topic in France too. I just saw the current pinacle of this stupidity: a camera in the grille at the front of a Peugeot car.
nraynaud··on A bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it
Naive question: ML tensor libraries don’t use a Z-order memory layout like textures do? It’s not beneficial like it is for textures?
nraynaud··on DSM Disorders Disappear in Statistical Clustering of Psychiatric Symptoms (2024)
I'm very happy that they are trying to re-classify the DSM, it's probably the sign of a maturing medical field. Let's also hope that re-clustering will help with the reproduction crisis.
nraynaud··on Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable
I think after the big training they do smaller training to change some details. I suppose they feed the system a bunch of training chat logs where the answers are warm and empathetic.

Or maybe they ask a ton of questions, do a “mood analysis” of the response vocabulary and penalize the non-warm and empathetic answers.

nraynaud··on Sunlight-activated material turns PFAS in water into harmless fluoride
I'm a bit confused, are they suggesting that a cadnium coumpound to treat PFAS is a done deal?
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