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Dominik Peters

@dominik-peters.de
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CNRS researcher (Paris) on computer science & voting theory. I travel by train a lot. From 🇩🇪, studied in 🇬🇧, worked in 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇦, now live in 🇫🇷. Side interests in urbanism, effective altruism, theme parks, roller coasters, U.S. appellate law.

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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 23/03/2025
Résultats 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/
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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.
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 24/02/2025
Der Grund, warum der Bundestag in letzter Zeit angewachsen ist, ist der fallende Zweitstimmenanteil der CSU in Bayern (wobei die CSU bei den Erststimmen weitenteils stärkste Kraft geblieben ist). Aber nur 3 der 23 Wahlkreise ohne Direktmandat befinden sich in Bayern!
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 24/02/2025
Die Wahlkreise ohne Direktmandat sind genau diejenigen, die am meisten umkämpft sind, häufig mit einem Kopf-an-Kopf-Rennen, wie hier in Frankfurt, wo der CDU-Kandidat knapp gewonnen hat, aber dann doch kein Direktmandat zugeteilt bekommen hat. Das wirkt problematisch.
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 24/02/2025
Um Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Heidelberg, und Mannheim gibt es eine Ansammlung von Wahlkreisen ohne Direktmandat -- in diesen Städten haben Bürger also keine Bundestagsmitglieder, die speziell für sie zuständig sind. Link zur Karte: www.datawrapper.de/_/bsCzu/
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 24/02/2025
Das 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. 🧵
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 24/02/2025
The underlying reason why the number of Bundestag members was rising in recent years was the falling popularity of the CSU party in Bavaria (in terms of % but not in terms of districts won). But only 3 of the 23 districts without a representative are in Bavaria!
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 24/02/2025
The unrepresented districts are those where the local representative got the lowest % of votes, which tend to be the most competitive districts, such as this one in Frankfurt where the CDU candidate narrowly won -- but then actually lost and got no seat. This seems problematic.
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 24/02/2025
There is a sort of cluster where this happened around Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Mannheim, and Heidelberg -- major cities where people will not have a local representative in the Bundestag that they can call. Link to map: www.datawrapper.de/_/H6dRv/
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 24/02/2025
The 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
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 23/02/2025
Feels 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.
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 16/02/2025
They put palm trees all over Place de la Concorde — Paris Plage in February!
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 16/02/2025
How 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.
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 04/02/2025
That vegan meal sounds pretty good! Better than the previous veggie burger (pictured) for sure
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 03/02/2025
It will definitely be possible from January 2026: the tickets for UK visitors are already on sale. Quite a bit pricier than what it cost in prior years without Epic Universe! ukstore.universalorlando.com/park-tickets
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 25/01/2025
Not a one-off either, last week I posted an issue at 23:41 and they marked it as fixed at 1:55.
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 25/01/2025
16:31: 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 👏🔥
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 23/01/2025
New application for LLMs: if you generate a list of counterexamples, you can ask it which one is the nicest looking.
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 17/01/2025
Some nighttime photos
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 10/01/2025
Academics are slowly starting to get back to work, judging from how often they check the documentation of TikZ (a figure drawing package for LaTeX)
Chart showing how often people click on links to tikz.dev from Google Searches, showing a long big drop over christmas and new years
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 17/12/2024
Glad you're back! It was indeed your longest ever hiatus:
Bar chart showing the gap in days between successive episodes. The latest episode had a gap of 82 days. The next highest gap was 60 days, attained in late 2021.
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 15/12/2024
Amazing that there is still a pharmacy in the same place as back then in 1877, even if the signage is less tasteful nowadays.
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 15/12/2024
In May, I was on the first train to ever depart from this station.
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 15/12/2024
La Défense Grande Arche
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 15/12/2024
Today, 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.
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 13/12/2024
Also might work from Krakow, or more comfortably boarding that train is Wroclaw with departure 07:13.
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 12/12/2024
Gemini 2.0 now has an actually functional code interpreter!
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 03/12/2024
It's 420 m from the park entrance to the edge of the lake. I drew some other paths of the same length to compare. Feels like Fantasia Gardens / Hotel / Main Street USA / Hub is a lot more exciting than Front Lot / World Premiere / Adventure Way, but let's hope it'll turn out better than expected!
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 02/12/2024
My YouTube channel with oral argument audio of the U.S. supreme court has reached 1000 subscribers! 🥳 www.youtube.com/channel/UCuX...
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 29/11/2024
“Vitalik” is now following me twice! And Bluesky isn’t fast at handling reports of impersonation.
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 25/11/2024
Feels reminiscent of the Democrats nominating Biden. www.dw.com/en/germany-s...
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Dominik Peters @dominik-peters.de · 18/11/2024
Peter 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.
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