Thank you for this article. What a refreshment from so many articles about AI… What’s important and complex in Shakespeare plays, is not what it’s written, but what’s left to the interpretation of the director, or even…
This is probably the right place to remind beginners in the study of ramens, that basic knowledge can be acquired from the classic "Tampopo" movie. Just the opening scene is must-know :…
> You cannot name a single politician who is a mathematician. I can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9dric_Villani ( and of course Wikipedia has a list :)…
In the long term we are all dead. (Keynes) Really feels like 1928
It’s like a Facebook feed - I find it strangely addictive to read them Random bits of lives, random thoughts of people you don’t know but that you can somehow relate to - just because they wrote something
I think it’s just poorly worded; it’s about the upward mobility of the _generation born after the Second World War_. This generation lacked opportunities and this created unrest in the 60s and 70s. The previous…
- it’s 3 days not 5 (e.g leaving NYC Wednesday morning arriving SF Saturday evening) - the internet connection is excellent (even in most tunnels) so you can work, have video meetings, etc, not to mention play chess…
> Romania was basically under German occupation through most of WWII. that's not correct. Romania was an independent country, with a king, government, etc. Romania was allied to Germany, and there was a German presence,…
( https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/feb/21/computing... )
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on the contrary let's have fun about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA [IDIOCRACY Opening Scene (2006) Mike Judge]
These letters are indeed jewels... There's one sentence in a letter to Louise Colet has marked my life: L'avenir nous tourmente, le passé nous retient, c'est pour ça que le présent nous échappe The future torments us,…
it's actually shipping ! Leroy Merlin (the French "big box" home improvement chain) is selling a electric screwdriver that use sodium-ion battery, seems to be working well: (French)…
I still don't understand why anyone would use lambdas - except if you 1) trust Amazon blindly, and 2) have no understanding whatsoever of how a server works, and therefore absolutely unable to set one up (even as a AWS…
> the general view in Sweden is that the school is working terrible It's quite universal to find that schools in your own country are terrible :) Having lived (and raised children) in multiple countries, I can tell you…
The business of VCs is to take risk. VCs _know_ that 8 out of 10 of their investment will return zero, zitch, nada. They just expect one of of 10 to make it even -- and another one to make it 20x. So that doesn't mean…
Violin. I can't spend one day without it, as a break every few hours of coding or meeting, it's really great It's quite a lot of work, but really the best way to make your brain two sides work together - as well as your…
Thank you for this article. What a refreshment from so many articles about AI… What’s important and complex in Shakespeare plays, is not what it’s written, but what’s left to the interpretation of the director, or even…
This is probably the right place to remind beginners in the study of ramens, that basic knowledge can be acquired from the classic "Tampopo" movie. Just the opening scene is must-know :…
> You cannot name a single politician who is a mathematician. I can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9dric_Villani ( and of course Wikipedia has a list :)…
In the long term we are all dead. (Keynes) Really feels like 1928
It’s like a Facebook feed - I find it strangely addictive to read them Random bits of lives, random thoughts of people you don’t know but that you can somehow relate to - just because they wrote something
I think it’s just poorly worded; it’s about the upward mobility of the _generation born after the Second World War_. This generation lacked opportunities and this created unrest in the 60s and 70s. The previous…
- it’s 3 days not 5 (e.g leaving NYC Wednesday morning arriving SF Saturday evening) - the internet connection is excellent (even in most tunnels) so you can work, have video meetings, etc, not to mention play chess…
> Romania was basically under German occupation through most of WWII. that's not correct. Romania was an independent country, with a king, government, etc. Romania was allied to Germany, and there was a German presence,…
( https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/feb/21/computing... )
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on the contrary let's have fun about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA [IDIOCRACY Opening Scene (2006) Mike Judge]
These letters are indeed jewels... There's one sentence in a letter to Louise Colet has marked my life: L'avenir nous tourmente, le passé nous retient, c'est pour ça que le présent nous échappe The future torments us,…
it's actually shipping ! Leroy Merlin (the French "big box" home improvement chain) is selling a electric screwdriver that use sodium-ion battery, seems to be working well: (French)…
I still don't understand why anyone would use lambdas - except if you 1) trust Amazon blindly, and 2) have no understanding whatsoever of how a server works, and therefore absolutely unable to set one up (even as a AWS…
> the general view in Sweden is that the school is working terrible It's quite universal to find that schools in your own country are terrible :) Having lived (and raised children) in multiple countries, I can tell you…
The business of VCs is to take risk. VCs _know_ that 8 out of 10 of their investment will return zero, zitch, nada. They just expect one of of 10 to make it even -- and another one to make it 20x. So that doesn't mean…
Violin. I can't spend one day without it, as a break every few hours of coding or meeting, it's really great It's quite a lot of work, but really the best way to make your brain two sides work together - as well as your…