Pierre Chapuis
@catwell.info
https://catwell.info Software @ https://finegrain.ai/. AI and Distributed Systems. Known as @pchapuis or @catwell elsewhere.
Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds
The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.
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Programmers often talk about ergonomic keyboards, more rarely about ergonomic mice. I use a Cherry MW 4500, if you are prone to tendonitis it is life-changing.
Important: earendil.com/posts/sessio... (About the evolution of LLM inference APIs.)
The Session You Cannot Take With You | EARENDIL
Inference APIs are filling sessions with encrypted reasoning, hidden search results, opaque compaction, and encrypted subagent messages. A growing form of lock-in.
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I can be very efficient when using automatic programming because I know exactly what the agent is doing. I would be able to do it myself, albeit slower most of the time. I have *no idea* how people who have not spent years programming, designing and operating systems will ever reach that point.
Pour se rendre compte de la taille de la commune de Cestas (où j'ai grandi) qui a été évacuée intégralement... Seulement 17000 habitants, mais c'est immense.
Le front de l'incendie arrive exactement où sont morts les pompiers en 1949 (Croix d'Hins - Le Puch). Il se dirige droit vers le monument commémoratif. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incendi...
beej.us/blog/data/ai... Did Fabienne make my favorite scarf? (www.kickstarter.com/projects/fbz...)
On Making
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It's been 8 months and I still get chills every time Svalbard's last song pops up in my earphones. I understand why they stopped, but it's still sad nevertheless. "I will miss you everyday for the rest of my life", huh. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzVR...
SVALBARD - If We Could Still Be Saved (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
YouTube video by Nuclear Blast Records
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As we say in French, "ça c'est ma came" www.keygenchurch.com
Keygen Church - Oscuro Domine
OSCURO DOMINE - The new double single. Released 7/7 at 7pm.
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New TOP 500 list is out. France has 21 entries, like Italy and way behind Germany (41). Germany has N.5, Italy has N.6 and N.8. The first-ranking machine in France is N. 29. Among France's 21, 7 are for CEA, including 3 of the top 6. Sad situation IMO :( top500.org/lists/top500...
TOP500 List - June 2026 | TOP500
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Un risque de la canicule auquel on ne pense pas : la température peut diminuer l'efficacité du tirage d'une chaudière gaz, voire provoquer une inversion. Mon détecteur de monoxyde de carbone en a détecté une ce weekend... Équipez-vous si ce n'est pas déjà le cas.
Good way to put what I've summed up for years as: I have zero reason to thing *we* are anything else than pattern-matching machines. maxleiter.com/blog/weights All that's missing is continuous learning now.
Max Leiter
with apologies to Terry Bisson
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The Emmi AI acquisition comforts me in what I think Mistral is trying to achieve, and I it can be an incredible play if they do. Physics simulation is a very underestimated application for AI.
Comment ferait-on sans l'IA pour répondre aux questions des enfants ? 😂
Controversial opinion: this is absurd and will result in either worse, more expensive phones, or just the good ones not being sold in the EU.
@alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 4mo agoStarting February 18, 2027, smartphones and many portable devices sold in the EU must have batteries that users can remove and replace more easily. That means #Apple #Samsung #Google #Xiaomi etc may need to redesign future devices to meet the new rules www.business-standard.com/technology/t...
I am an absolute fan of Peter (Shanchuan) Lin papers. Always super interesting and straight to the point. This one just came out: arxiv.org/abs/2604.11521
Continuous Adversarial Flow Models
We propose continuous adversarial flow models, a type of continuous-time flow model trained with an adversarial objective. Unlike flow matching, which uses a fixed mean-squared-error criterion, our ap...
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Bonjour à tous.tes Nous avons l'indicible douleur de vous faire part du décès de Séverine Erhel, survenu ce lundi 13 avril 2026 à Rennes. (information diffusée à la demande / avec l'autorisation de la famille)
Controversial opinion: with how good AI has gotten, as an industry it's probably time to stop focusing on Web / application accessibility on the provider end (Sisyphean task) and switch to building great assistive tech on the client end.
apenwarr.ca/log/20260316 This is why good teams right now are a few real seniors augmented with AI. Because a defining trait of seniority is knowing exactly where and when you can cut corners and when you need extra trust. Of course this is not very sustainable...
Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
We’ve all heard of those network effect laws: the value of a network goes up with the square of the number of members. Or the cost of commun...
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Everyone is seeing the same thing at the same time... Here @juldanjou.bsky.social and Stanislas Polu. julien.danjou.info/blog/the-flo... spolu.sh/notes/202603...
The Flow Is Gone — jd:/dev/blog
I used to hold entire systems in my head. Now I hold seven terminals. The trade was worth it, but something real got lost.
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"Open source isn’t dying. It’s being industrialized." (by @juldanjou.bsky.social) julien.danjou.info/blog/open-so...
Open Source After the Extraction — jd:/dev/blog
The old open source deal is dead. What replaces it isn't a fix, it's a transformation. Open source stops being a community and becomes a supply chain.
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