J'ai synthétisé les 560 pages de la Commission Gallant sur la transformation numérique de la SAAQ et l'ai comparé avec 7 autres projets similaires effectués à l'extérieur du Québec : open.substack.com/pub/vtherrie...

Les fiascos informatiques de la SAAQ étaient évitables

Quand bien même que ça coûterait 50 M$, 100 M$, 200 M$ de plus...

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Got curious about why exoplanet positions make up that weird shape so I made this youtu.be/yarWar-8p8A?...

Why the Exoplanet Map Looks Like This

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Do they actually believe their note-taking apps are gonna save them from the permanent underclass or

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Plan pour un Réseau scolaire commun

Nous proposons de créer un réseau commun qui mettra les écoles publiques et les écoles privées conventionnées à l’abri du marché scolaire.

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Intellectual property is the water we are swimming in. It's so ingrained in how businesses operate and how we express ourselves that it's hard to imagine alternatives and foresee how it could change in the future. That's what I tried to do. youtu.be/yDlKxVjzYvU

To Own Ideas

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Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95

ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

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Talking about applications of GPUs to 3D graphics. youtu.be/VP-q4jFdU8c

Why GPUs Are Good at Graphics

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"Archaeologists discovered that people have known about popcorn for millennia [...] Between 2007 and 2011, evidence as early as 4,700 BCE for popping corn were discovered as macrofossil cobs" (yes I read the Wikipedia page on popcorn while eating popcorn) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn...

Popcorn - Wikipedia

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Talking about wildfire predictions with numerical simulations and machine learning models. What I found the most interesting during my research is how ecosystems have adapted to fire and how indigenous communities developed controlled burns to modify their environment. youtu.be/3mawXsPqdbs

Wildfires and the Limits of Computers

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They've run out of names

List of worker owned tech cooperatives github.com/hng/tech-coops

GitHub - hng/tech-coops: A list of tech coops and resources concerning tech coops and worker owned cooperatives in general.

A list of tech coops and resources concerning tech coops and worker owned cooperatives in general. - hng/tech-coops

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I know I'm basic but cooling off in a lake after playing beach volleyball is a 10 / 10 experience

I knew that nitroplasts could fix nitrogen but I somehow didn't know about lightning, this is really cool

I have found a new Wikipedia page to fuel my optimism: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

I wanna talk about copyright. I got comments in my video about monopolization in the GPU market pointing out that large companies weaponize patents to get rid of competitors. And with AI taking space in creative careers, it seems like copyright laws should be updated or dropped. A few thoughts 🧵

This is the sequel to the video I made in March about how complicated GPU programming can get. Here, I tried to figure out WHY it is so inconvenient and how it can evolve in the future. youtu.be/oaOxMdKlJTc

Why GPU Programming Is Chaotic

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They've been selling assistants since the IBM PC! With just one keystroke, you could open a calculator, a notepad, and even a calendar! archive.org/details/byte...

Je comprends de moins en moins la logique d'augmenter les salaire au public coûte que coûte et d'espérer de meilleurs résultats, Biron gagne plus que des ministres élus et imputables mais elle sert juste à rendre le système moins transparent theconversation.com/des-salaires...

Des salaires toujours plus hauts, une reddition inexistante. Le dilemme de la gouvernance à Santé Québec

Comment évaluer la performance des dirigeants publics ? À l’heure où les salaires s’alignent sur le privé, la logique des résultats doit suivre le même chemin.

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Je suis tombé sur le budget participatif de l'Île-de-France (www.iledefrance.fr/participer-l...) qui permet centralise des propositions citoyennes pour des projets écologiques. Ça me semble beaucoup plus efficace que des projets pilotes à la carte.

Budget participatif écologique

Vous souhaitez créer un projet écologique et solidaire ? Soumettez vos idées aux votes des Franciliens pour bénéficier d’une aide financière.

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J'ai entendu une chanson de France Gall à la pharmacie alors je réécoute toute sa discographie

J'ai commencé à écouter la commission Gallant pendant que je fais le ménage à la place de mettre de la musique www.cesis.gouv.qc.ca/audiences-pu...

YouTube me laisse même pas ajouter de pistes audio dans d'autres langues MAIS il a essayé de me générer du doublage automatique (ça a planté, quel système incroyable). Je vais ajouter la piste en français quand ils vont rendre la fonctionnalité disponible pour ma chaîne.

My new video explains my various grievances about the ambient AI discourse. We often run in loops discussing the same things ("will we lose jobs", "when will AGI happen"), I try to avoid speculations to focus to current and real problems. youtu.be/5GjeJ8kQST4

AI Singularity Is A Smokescreen

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Nature made a list of the 10 most cited paper of the 21st century. 4 papers are in machine learning, 3 are in health sciences / biology, 2 are in psychology, and 1 is in chemistry (more precisely, a crystallography computer program). 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: the most-cited papers of the twenty-first century

A Nature analysis reveals the 25 highest-cited papers published this century and explores why they are breaking records.

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HOW DO YOU NAME THAT THING DADDY LONGLEGS One was taking a stroll across the wall so I decided to translate it, English ended up having the worse (best?) name

NEW DWARF PLANET ALERT - 2017 OF201 is 700 km wide (smaller than Ceres, bigger than Vesta) and takes 25000 years to orbit the Sun. Its discoverers say that makes "planet X" even less likely to exist (other astronomers disagree). Article not peer-reviewed yet skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

Another Dwarf Planet in Our Solar System?

A newly discovered object in the outer solar system, 2017 OF201, is the largest found in more than a decade.

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I had to use VBA for the first time in my life to modify an Exc*l sheet and it made me feel like I had been shot in the legs

Un rapport de HEC Montréal rapporte "un lien négatif robuste [...] au Québec entre la rémunération et l’offre de services médicaux" qui semble se généraliser aux autres provinces. J'espère juste que le rapport ne servira pas à alimenter la démagogie envers les médecins cjp.hec.ca/wp-content/u...

1. As almost every research shows, young men have NOT turned to the right — compared to older men. In fact, they moved slightly to the left compared to older men. Young WOMEN have turned to the left compared to older women. Recent graph on Trump approval provides good example.

My favorite bug is the 2015 Dreamliner overflow. If you don't power cycle the airplane within 248 days (2^31 centiseconds), the electrical power straight up shuts down. Apparently it has been fixed by now. www.i-programmer.info/news/149-sec...