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iNaturalist 4 months ago

Did not realize that they publish their code. Very cool. Thanks!

iNaturalist 4 months ago

Does anyone know how they make their map so performant? Showing all those pins is mind blowing to me coming from leaflet maps. Marinetraffic is also a map that blows me away every time i see all the icons and how smooth and fast the loading is when zooming in. Would love to make a similar map at some point for my hobby but leaflet just does not cut it when you want to render 10million plus pins on a global map.

Tech blogs or pointers would be great

I have a friend that works on physically based renderers in the film industry and has also done research in the area. Always love hearing stories and explanations about how things get done in this industry.

What companies are hiring such talent at the moment? Have the AI companies also been hiring rendering engineers for creating training environments?

If you are looking to hire an experienced research and industry rendering engineer i am happy to connect you since my friend is not on social media but has been putting out feelers.

Mistral Small 3 1 year ago

Thanks a lot for this eval!

One question i have regarding evals is, what sampling temperature and/or method do you use? As far as i understand temperature/ method can impact model output alot. Would love to here you're thoughts on how these different settings of the same model can impact output and how to go about evaluating models when its not clear how to use the to their fullest

Any blogs or other writing about this topic you can recommend? I worked with gurobi in the past but haven't been keeping up with the trends and performance gains.

Love this field of CS!

Wow this is the first time i hear about such a method. Anywhere i can read up on how the temperature multiplier works and what the implications/effects are? Is it just changing the temperature based on how many tokens have already been processed (i.e. the temperature is variable over the course of a completion spanning many tokens)?

The reason is probably because, in the EU, passenger rail transport is prioritised over cargo. For example in Switzwerland rail cargo is mainly transported during the night because thats the only time the network isn't working at it's limit for the passenger trains.

In Canada, to my understanding, it's the other way round where passenger trains have been reduced because of the need for more cargo train trips. The USA might be similar.

https://chat.quazel.com teaches languages through speaking and having specific goals on where to steer the conversation. It's actually pretty nice. Has many language combinations to learn, ex. French speaker learning German. They seem to use LLMs and text to speech for now but I'm sure they'll get there with this tech progressing so fast. Duolinguo is from yesteryear in my opinion, learning by speaking is way better.

It seems like you have never been to a well connected and dense city, that has good public transport and bicycle infrastructure. Bikes and public transport can be at least twice as fast if not faster. Everything can be built closer together because you don't need all the wasted parking space and huge streets that cars require. I can really recommend the Youtube channel "Not Just Bikes". It has made me hate cars for all the useless space they take up, all the pollution (noise, air, rubber) they create, and the danger they present to anyone not in a car.

I suggest you watch this video[1] by the awesome channel "Not Just Bikes". Bakfiets are a dutch cargo bike you can literally use for 99% of all your errands. People in a city do not need personal cars. And even Cargo bikes are only useful for 10-20% of occasions, depending on if you have big shopping tours or kids. For the 1 or 2 occasions a year where a car is needed, car sharing is the way to go.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQhzEnWCgHA