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I try to contribute to things getting better, with sourced information, OC and polite rational skepticism.
Disagreeing with a point ≠ supporting the opposite side, I support rationality.
Let’s discuss to make things better sustainably.
Always happy to question our beliefs.

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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • Reminds me of a first year of middle school personal anecdote. At the beginning of the school year, our literature teacher asked us to do research about a subject and present the results.
    It was the beginning of internet at home, so almost everyone came back with literal web pages printed, thinking they had done well. The teacher was furious about this “demonstration of laziness” and started to go through the students one by one and handling 0/20 grades for the assignment, like a gardener carefully pulling weeds one by one, savoring each wilt. Occasionally she would praise the few students that took time to manually write down their research.
    I was in the back of the classroom, so analyzing the situation quickly and sweating, I started to furiously handwrite to a Seyès ruled paper the Wikipedia page I had printed (with the help of my father), cut the one picture and glue it to the paper. I managed to escape the culling with a good enough grade.
    Her last name was that of a fearsome wild animal. It was her final year before retirement, and as the year went on, we realized she was actually a very conscientious and caring teacher.












  • Ca me semble plus productif que les LLMs perso. On devrait grandement gagner en efficacité énergétique sur des problèmes sérieux comme la recherche de médicaments ou l’optimisation de chemins grace à l’exploitation de propriétés physique plus fondamentales, plutôt qu’en construisant des centres de données toujours plus titanesques. L’obsolescence du chiffrage classique est une conséquence négative, mais elle a déjà ses solutions comme expliqué dans l’article. Par exemple, mon VPN chez Mullvad supporte déjà le chiffrement post quantique par défaut depuis pas mal de temps.
    En outre, l’informatique quantique pourrait aussi améliorer les technologies de protection de la vie privée en permettant de garantir si un message a été intercepté ou non (la moindre observation perturbe un système quantique), par exemple lors de l’échange de clefs de chiffrement.




  • Agreed, but adding that tech companies often provide the choice between Windows and Mac, both being very locked-down of course. The only place where I was able to work with desktop Linux were research laboratories and early stage startups that are too young to bother with all the IT locking down and would rather give their engineers whatever they prefer, which serves as a cheap benefit compared to big companies.