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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corv%C3%A9e

It's nice to be rich.

This space is very active. I work at the French mapping agency, and we're currently building MCPs to work with our data.

See: https://github.com/ignfab/geocontext (French) Beta MCP instance: https://geollm.beta.ign.fr/geocontext/mcp

Unrelated, but also take a look at the nice high-density LiDAR point data we have! https://visionneuse-lidarhd.ign.fr/?px=4441970.281583222&py=...

Something something AI

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/theres-more-to-...

Super cool! I did something similar (in terms of visualisation) a few years back, a map of cities by their birthdate on wikipedia: https://cpa.github.io/wiki-cities-birthdates/

For those wondering what it's for: it's basically NumPy + a JIT compiler with standard Haskell syntax (you mostly just need to change the type signatures, not the code).

It can vectorize, parallelize on the CPU, or offload to the GPU automatically.

It's a very mature project, maybe 10+ years old.

Pretty cool!

I've spent a lot of time wrapping my head around monads; whenever I thought I "got it," I would come across some exotic monad that completely blew my mind. The best way to understand them is not to rely on analogies but just follow the rules—everybody says that, but it took me a while to truly realize it.

See, for example, the Tardis monad or the Cont monad: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/446d13/exotic_mona...

I thought it'd be the male version of https://www.thehairpin.com/women-laughing-alone-with-salad/

Top comment of a frontpage post, you're not doing that bad at marketing.

Interesting, but how is the trust signal measured? I couldn’t find this information

As member of OSCE, they have observers although it’s fairly light.

https://odihr.osce.org/odihr/elections/usa/580111

Another good read: https://www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/business-ethics/resou...

Pretty cool to have a first-class tracing mechanism. Obviously... it's a monad! Haskell has had a MonadTrace monad for a long time, that can be switched on or off depending on your environment.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/tracing-0.0.7.4/docs/Con...

It reminds me of when I used to write lisp, where code is data. You can abuse reflection (and macros) to great effect, but you never feel safe.

See also: string interpolation and SQL injection, (unhygienic) C macros

To add to sibling comment, if you have streaming data you have to update the whole index every time with r/kd trees whereas with H3 you just compute the bin, O(1) instead of O(log n).

Not rocket science but different tradeoffs, that’s what engineering is all about.

The big reason is that H3 is data independant. You put your data in predefined bins and then join on them, whereas kd/r trees depend on the data and building the trees may become prohibitive or very hard (especially in distributed systems).

Absolutely true. It's even the subject of many memes! search for "c15 memes".

Am I reading an AI trying to trick me into becoming its subordinate?

Companies don’t have a legal obligation to publicly disclose revenue in many countries, so if you’re selling business insights you’re always on the lookout for indicators that can be used as a proxy to revenue.

In the same vein 4chan.org/b/ used to make every so often "This iw now a Hacker News thread", which were hilarious.

See: https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/48696148 Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9788317

Chrome?

The cloud-native version of "Nobody gets fired for buying IBM"

I don't think 2 is true: when OpenAI model won a gold medal in the math olympiads, it did so without tools or web search, just pure inference. Such a feat definitely would not have happened with o1.

It helps against this kind of stuff (2015) https://blog.fox-it.com/2015/04/20/deep-dive-into-quantum-in...

The people working inside the company may be both judge and party to the issue, it’s not always a bad idea to call in consultants. Do you prefer independent and somewhat misinformed or stakeholder to the issue and knowledgeable?

Yes!

Apple has RCS, compatible with Android, at least in the EU. You don't get the blue bubble though.

The sun can mean different things to different people. We usually think of it as the physical star, but for some ancient civilizations it may have been seen as a person or a god. Living with these different representations can, in a very real way, shape the reality around you. If you did not have a word for freedom, would as many desire it?

I got the French version and was really confused, since it randomly mentioned autonomous vehicles on the page. Turns out, Age Verification = AV = Autonomous Vehicle.

That's why you do quality control on AI-generated content :^)