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New comment by jeremyscanvic in "Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search"

jeremyscanvic — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:09:03 +0000

I always found this funny as well. We say ginger cats (chats roux) in French too!

New comment by jeremyscanvic in "Yes, and"

jeremyscanvic — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:52:36 +0000

Would you mind sharing some of the insights you gained on reading code? It could be useful for the more junior of us!

New comment by jeremyscanvic in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

jeremyscanvic — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:57:27 +0000

I'm reading singer song-writer Lily Allen's 2019 autobiography My Thoughts Exactly. I really liked her last album West End Girl (2025) and I wanted to know more about her and her creative process and inspirations. She tells about lots of different things having happened in her life, her relationship with her parents, how she grew up like. Really enjoyable read so far!

New comment by jeremyscanvic in "37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it"

jeremyscanvic — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:56:02 +0000

Neat! I wonder how they deal with people using possibly different map projections?

Artificial Intelligence in Research

jeremyscanvic — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:57:02 +0000

Article URL: https://tmodrzyk.github.io/blog/2026/artificial-intelligence-in-research/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49809436

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jeremyscanvic in "Time complexity of operations on Python's built-in types"

jeremyscanvic — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:30:37 +0000

Worst case can mean two things. For fixed n, worst list content and worst k, which gives you the less fine-grained O(n). For fixed n and fixed k, worst list content, which gives you the fine-grained O(n - k).

Edit: Another example of that is the complexity of convolutional filtering, which is O(n min(log n, k)) for a signal of length n and a kernel of size k.

New comment by jeremyscanvic in "The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead"

jeremyscanvic — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:02:36 +0000

I'm interested in the context surrounding his statement but I could not find where it originates from. Do you have a link to it?

New comment by jeremyscanvic in "My Images Are Dithered"

jeremyscanvic — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:55:54 +0000

I'm only vaguely familiar with dithering/half-toning. What does "component" refer to here?

New comment by jeremyscanvic in "How My Images Are Dithered"

jeremyscanvic — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:53:00 +0000

It's a somewhat active inverse problems research subfield https://github.com/MenghanXia/ReversibleHalftoning

New comment by jeremyscanvic in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

jeremyscanvic — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:35:45 +0000

Do you have tips to start using notebooks instead of marking books? I personally like to underline stuff in my books, when I start a new novel it's often people, places and events. I'm not sure what would be the notebook equivalent of that. Writing down what I would underline? It seems tedious and you loose context and the sense of proximity between words.

New comment by jeremyscanvic in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

jeremyscanvic — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:26:43 +0000

I was once telling a friend about a book I had just finished. They were curious about it and asked me to borrow it. I politely accepted knowing very well they could never read my copy for it was embarrassingly covered in the messy marks I had enjoyed making during my read. Fortunately neither of us ever brought the subject again and I now think twice before messing up my books!

New comment by jeremyscanvic in "A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample"

jeremyscanvic — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:04:26 +0000

Ah right this makes a lot of a sense - thanks!

New comment by jeremyscanvic in "A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample"

jeremyscanvic — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:46:32 +0000

> Also, from the fundamental theorem of algebra, once the Jacobian polynomial {\mathrm{det} DF} is non-zero, it must be constant.

I wouldn't have guessed this is true. I'm wondering what the proof looks like!

A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample

jeremyscanvic — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:09:25 +0000

Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/a-digestion-of-the-jacobian-conjecture-counterexample/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998362

Points: 336

# Comments: 138

New comment by jeremyscanvic in "Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst"

jeremyscanvic — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:27:58 +0000

Is ggplot2 considered to be a nice interface to plot things compared to say matplotlib in Python? I'm asking out of curiosity, I haven't touched R much

New comment by jeremyscanvic in ".gitignore Isn't the Only Way to Ignore Files in Git"

jeremyscanvic — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:07:40 +0000

I knew about .git/info/exclude and ~/.config/git/ignore but not about git-check-ignore(1). Neat!

New comment by jeremyscanvic in "French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation"

jeremyscanvic — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:16:31 +0000

That's wild I didn't expected the plagiarism to be that blatant. Extra shocked as a French who enjoyed listening to many of his talks

New comment by jeremyscanvic in "Typst 0.15.0"

jeremyscanvic — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:39:37 +0000

I've switched form LaTeX to Typst for all my informal/semi-formal writing and it's a delight to work with. I hope I'll be able to use it for more formal documents in the future (conference/journal papers, slides for high stakes presentations)

New comment by jeremyscanvic in "Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)"

jeremyscanvic — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:01:40 +0000

In France some people do and some people don't but it's definitely a thing

New comment by jeremyscanvic in "PyTorch Landscape"

jeremyscanvic — Tue, 19 May 2026 08:36:39 +0000

I work on one of the projects featured in the PyTorch Ecosystem [1] and I really recommend it to anyone working on a PyTorch library. Their team is really responsive and they even offer promotion on their blog & social media.

[1] https://github.com/deepinv/deepinv