Author Archives: manik

SFourmi on the web using Emscripten

Posted on Saturday March 25th, 2023 by manik

The SFourmi project is now running directly in the web browser, being compiled from C++ into WebAssembly using Emscripten. Try it here but be patient, it is very slow to load (explanations below) You can then use mouse and keys more »

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(Français) Plastiphages

Posted on Tuesday April 5th, 2022 by manik

Sorry, this entry is only available in French.

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CARMEN collective – Consciousness, Attention and MENtal Representation

Posted on Saturday July 3rd, 2021 by manik

Works of CARMEN collective on Consciousness Continue reading →

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SFourmi – Super Ant

Posted on Thursday February 27th, 2020 by manik

SuperFourmi (SuperAnt) a multi-agent ant simulator from the last millenium (!) – Github link History It was the first C++ project I developped in highschool (Michel Tran Ngoc, Manik Bhattacharjee for conception and code, graphics by Tristan Millner and some code more »

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Tracing an old train track in OpenStreetMap’s Umap

Posted on Monday September 3rd, 2018 by manik

From 1901 to the beginning of the 1950’s there was a train line between the french village of Egreville and the larger city Sens. Because I have some with a village on the track I wanted to learn more about more »

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setGID, ldd and library not found

Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2015 by manik

Today I was bewildered by a very unusual problem. Maybe this will help someone else with the same problem ! I was running an executable as myself and it was working perfectly. I had to run it as root to more »

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Virtual tour of Louis-le-Grand high school (1996-1998)

Posted on Sunday September 6th, 2015 by manik

Project LLG I decided to dig up an old project, a virtual tour of my highschool in 1997-1998 and to convert it to a html5/javascript/css web project to learn more about these languages. At the beginning, this was about visiting more »

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Ubuntu 15.04 : Adding a ppa behind a proxy

Posted on Thursday July 23rd, 2015 by manik

To install a new PPA (for example the KDE backports to have the latest stable KDE on Kubuntu 15.04) on a connection using a proxy for http/https access : export http_proxy=http://myProxy:port export https_proxy=http://myProxy:port sudo -E add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backport The “-E” allows more »

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Gitlab behind a reverse proxy with SSL termination

Posted on Wednesday July 15th, 2015 by manik

I needed to install a git server with a web interface. I decided to install Gitlab Community Edition. But I had some trouble using it behind a reverse proxy that does SSL termination I added a new virtual machine (VM) more »

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Sciences en Marche 2 : Grenoble-Lyon

Posted on Sunday October 5th, 2014 by manik

On october 4th 2014, Sciences en Marche militants from Grenoble went biking from Grenoble to Lyon. Sciences en marche – Grenoble -> Lyon par m_b_38 Here is a map of what I did : – In red, Grenoble-Rives on my more »

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