🦜 vs 🐟 sur l’échiquier : ChatGPT ou Stockfish, qui gagne et pourquoi ? Mon exposé à la Fête de la Science @INSA_Rennes disponible sur Youtube, avec quelques excellentes questions d'élèves: youtu.be/TtGiT-tWdmE C'est ludique mais technique, accessible aux curieux/connaisseurs. #ChessEveryWhere

Perroquet (ChatGPT) vs Poisson (Stockfish) Qui gagne ? Tester l’intelligence artificielle par les échecs. Retrouvez moi au Village des sciences à l'INSA Rennes le jeudi 9 octobre Plus d'information ici: www.fetedelascience.fr/perroquet-ch...

I presented "Teaching Reproducibility and Embracing Variability: From Floating-Point Experiments to Replicating Research" at ACM REP conference 2025 . Blog post with links to preprint, slides, and raw transcript: blog.mathieuacher.com/TeachingRepr...

The latest generation of reasoning LLMs perform worse at #Chess compared to previous models. o3 & o4‑mini vs weak Stockfish: illegal moves in 88% & 94% of 67 games. o3 breaks rules in 4 moves; both resigned while winning. Worse than GPT‑3.5‑turbo‑instruct (1750 Elo)

#KubeDiagrams just crossed 1K stars on Github. It allows generating Kubernetes architecture diagrams from Kubernetes yaml files (among others). Developed by Philippe Merle from Inria Spirals team .

Les LLM rêvent-ils de cavaliers électriques ? - Thibaut Giraud @monsieurphi.bsky.social at @devoxx.fr Une variante de l'excellent "ChatGPT rêve-t-il de cavaliers électriques ?" avec quelques éléments nouveaux. Quelques pointeurs pour approfondir le sujet #echecs+LLM dans le thread 1/3

Nous continuons avec Monsieur Phi “les LLM rêvent-ils de cavaliers électriques ?”

Interesting comment on my blog post about Stockfish and our study disq.us/p/32uips9

President Macron Highlights Software Heritage at the Sorbonne: A Call for Europe to Embrace its Role in a Global Mission www.linkedin.com/pulse/presid... Highly related to CodeCommons codecommons.org that aims to provide open, responsible, and transparent AI on top of Software Heritage. Let's go!

Real position coming from an online real game in #Chess960 I just played. Is it a draw? -0.3 according to Stockfish, but no clear plan. Chess engines are notoriously bad at resolving/assessing fortress-like position. But is it such a case? What do you think? #ChessEveryWhere

Just watched a great interview with Fields medalist Hugo Duminil-Copin by @scienceetonnante.com. At some point, there's a discussion on the role of AI in discovery. Hugo sees AI as a partner -- amplifying our approximations, filling gaps, sparking ideas. Blog post+transcript below 1/2🧵

Nice talk of Pierre L'Ecuyer about (parallel) random number generation for the 50th anniversary of @irisa-lab.bsky.social lab last week. Slides are here: www-labs.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/myf...

Why Can't We Make Simple Software? Great talk by Peter van Hardenberg about complexity in software engineering (robustness and generalization to inputs, the effects of scale, leaky abstractions, variability and combinatorial explosion, dependencies hell, etc) www.youtube.com/watch?v=czzA...

Comment favoriser la mixité dans les métiers du numérique ? Excellente intervention de Mélissa Cottin, directrice de l'association ESTIMnumérique youtu.be/w5vzyoH7JM0

Metamorphic Testing, Reproducibility & a Curious Chess Engine Mystery We replicated a study that found inconsistencies in how Stockfish (the best engine in the world) evaluates mirrored positions. But the key issue? Depth sensitivity.🧵⬇️

📢 Call for Papers is OPEN! 📢 #SPLC2025, the leading conference on SPL and variability, is accepting submissions! Don't miss the opportunity to submit to the Research Track! 📅Main tracks – 3/4/25 📅Companion tracks – 12/6/25 🌐Info: 2025.splc.net #CallForPapers #CFP

Size coding an impressive graphics demo with wave simulations, sky and water shaders, etc. in 256 bytes. 256 b-y-t-e-s. Using a Rust-like syntax, some clever algos, and Web assembly. It's not my creation, and I found it in a video by @lauriewired.bsky.social. Some notes below

Nouvelle vidéo ! Ça cause de robotique sociale. youtu.be/fJv7-Ya_H5s

According to an AI, I'm "a chess-loving professor and researcher who champions the integration of AI in software engineering, while questioning the hype around AI capabilities" and I'm "diving deep into software variability, from Airbus to Linux" Love it! 👋👍

Bref.2 vient de sortir et c'est l'occasion de faire un petit retour en arrière. En 2014, nous avons étudié par rétro-ingénierie le générateur de vidéos personnalisées de Bref, analysant sa variabilité cachée et les implications en sécurité des systèmes à forte variabilité. 1/2

Keynote of @jmjezequel.bsky.social for starting #VaMoS2025 and #MODEVAR2025 modevar.github.io/program/ In search of languages for realizing variability in code or in models.

#DeepSeek-R1 is exciting, but in #chess it’s shockingly weaker than a 2020-era GPT-2! It made frequent illegal moves, blunders, and lost in fewer than 20 moves. The takeaway? Even cutting-edge #LLMs can fail in specialized domains without proper training. Thread+blog post🧵⏬ 1/6

Nicholas Carlini talking about chess and LLMs at Machine Learning Street Talk youtu.be/n4ipEJ6uJ44?... 😍🥰 Totally related to blog.mathieuacher.com/ChessWinning... blog.mathieuacher.com/GPTsChessElo... or the video of @monsieurphi.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=6D1X... #ChessEveryWhere

Baisse annoncée du budget de la recherche et de l’enseignement supérieur : quel avenir pour la recherche scientifique ? www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

Registration for the 19th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems is closing today: familiar-project.github.io/VaMoS2025/re... Don't forget MODEVAR the 3rd! Amazing program with two keynotes and numerous talks. #VaMoS2025 #variability #software