Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 12/06/2025My first PhD student just graduated with an amazing dissertation. It was a great pleasure working together and to watch Théo pick up all the skills to be a great researcher. Excited for the future! 031
Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 23/03/2025Résultats de la votation de la Ville de Paris ("Pour ou contre végétaliser et rendre piétonnes 500 nouvelles rues dans Paris ?") par arrondissement. www.datawrapper.de/_/2HKVf/ 000
Reposted by Dominik Petersarxiv cs.GT @arxiv-cs-gt.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Christian Kroer, Dominik Peters Computing Lindahl Equilibrium for Public Goods with and without Funding Caps arxiv.org/abs/2503.16414 021
Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 17/03/2025@dividedargument.bsky.social @williambaude.bsky.social @epps.bsky.social Was just relistening to an old episode and it turns out to include a timely side discussion about auto pen. 000
Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 24/02/2025Das deutsche Wahlrecht gibt jedem Wähler zwei Stimmen: für einen Direktkandidaten und eine Liste. Aber das Wahlrecht wurde für dieses Jahr geändert, um den Anwuchs der Sitze im Bundestag zu stoppen. Das führt aber dazu, dass 23 Wahlkreise diesmal kein Direktmandat erhalten. 🧵 100
Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 24/02/2025The German election system lets people vote for both a local representative and a party. But it changed this year: to stop the number of Bundestag members from fluctuating, some candidates that would've become local representatives lost if their party got too few votes. This happened in 23 districts 100
Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 23/02/2025Feels so good to be able to vent to someone wise and well-read and who tends to agree with you. I have been procrastinating returning this page proof for months now because I get pissed off everytime I open the PDF. 000
Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 16/02/2025They put palm trees all over Place de la Concorde — Paris Plage in February! 010
Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 16/02/2025How many conversations I have with different LLMs, per month. Peaks in months where I've paid for the plus versions (e.g. 2024-04 for Claude 3 Opus, 2024-09 for o1-preview, 2025-01 for o1). Surprising that there is no clear growth since Summer 2023. 120
Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 25/01/202516:31: I notice a pedestrian signal facing the wrong way, open an issue in the Paris DansMaRue app. 18:36: The city emails me a photo of having fixed it. @paris.fr 👏🔥 100
Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 23/01/2025New application for LLMs: if you generate a list of counterexamples, you can ask it which one is the nicest looking. 010
Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 21/01/2025There are too many computer scientists who don't know essential optimization concepts like Farkas lemma and KKT conditions. These seem to not be part of the standard CS undergrad curriculum, but should be. 010
Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 10/01/2025Academics are slowly starting to get back to work, judging from how often they check the documentation of TikZ (a figure drawing package for LaTeX) 011
Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 06/01/2025If you want your ideas to become more influential, it seems worthwhile to post translations of articles and papers in many languages. Then they end up in the training corpus of LLMs multiple times, and the copies are expensive to filter out. Plus you get broader accessibility to humans. 120
Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 22/12/2024I just published my own digitized version of the FSI French Basic course from the 1960s and 70s. Super boring but quite effective, and now much easier to use thanks to audio files synced to the textbook. dominik-peters.de/fsi/dominik-peters.deFSI French Basic CourseEnhanced digital version of FSI French Basic course, with audio, text, and exercises. Available free on the web or as a podcast. 020
Reposted by Dominik PetersMarco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Rennes's first metro line (9.4 km) was quoted at €449 million in 1995 which is €2023 700 million -> €75 m/km. Line b (14 km) cost €1.3 bn or approx €2023 1.5 bn -> €107 m/km. Part of the difference is related to the higher standards of line b: longer platforms, wider trains, bigger stations, etc. 1415
Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 15/12/2024Today, the €5bn RER E extension in Paris took up full service, after its first 7 months only having limited shuttle service. I went yesterday to enjoy the last day of seeing a brand-new massive station completely deserted in the middle of the afternoon. 120
Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 12/12/2024Gemini 2.0 now has an actually functional code interpreter! 000
Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 02/12/2024My YouTube channel with oral argument audio of the U.S. supreme court has reached 1000 subscribers! 🥳 www.youtube.com/channel/UCuX... 010
Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 29/11/2024“Vitalik” is now following me twice! And Bluesky isn’t fast at handling reports of impersonation. 000
Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 25/11/2024Feels reminiscent of the Democrats nominating Biden. www.dw.com/en/germany-s... 030
Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 24/11/2024Reviewing for the AAMAS conference; for all 5 of the papers in my batch, all three reviews recommend reject. I hear similarly dire impressions from colleagues. Something happened to AAMAS or is it some quirk of the reviewer assignment? 110
Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 23/11/2024@epps.bsky.social fyi in S3 E7, 44:20, Will bets you dinner that the Dobbs leaker will be known by January 2025. 010
Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 22/11/2024French has the great advantage that years 2022 onwards can be pronounced in just 4 syllables ("deux mille vingt deux"), and easy syllables too. English needs 5-6 ("two thou-sand twen-ty two", "twen-ty twen-ty two"), German needs 6-7 ("zwei tau-send zwei-und-zwan-zig", "zwan-zig zwei-und-zwan-zig"). 000
Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 18/11/2024Peter Thiel in Jan 2020 vs Nov 2024. Is he an Ozempic fan or did something else happen? Sorry for shallow tweet, just found it striking. 010
Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 08/11/2024The German parliament was planning to change the constitution to make it more difficult to mess with the constitutional court. That's possible as extremist parties are at < 1/3 of seats. But if there are new elections before it is passed, it could be too late. www.tagesschau.de/kommentar/am...tagesschau.deKommentar: Unabhängigkeit des Verfassungsgerichts muss gesichert werdenDer Schutz des Bundesverfassungsgerichts vor Einflussnahme ist ein zentrales Projekt, das die Parteien unbedingt noch abschließen sollten, meint Frank Bräutigam. Nach der Neuwahl könnte es zu spät sei... 000
Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 09/10/2024Wegovy (semaglutide) finally entering the French market, but unfortunately restricted to people with BMIs above 35, requiring a prescription from a specialist doctor, and without any insurance coverage. www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-radio...francetvinfo.frObésité : le médicament Wegovy arrive en France, il permet "15% de perte de poids et 15% de réduction du risque cardio-vasculaire"Le médicament anti-obésité Wegovy arrive en France dès mardi, mais sera disponible seulement dans un parcours de soins précis. Etienne Tichit, le directeur général France de Novo Nordisk, indique que ... 030