"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...

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

They've run out of names

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

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

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...

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.

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

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...

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...

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...

What fascinates me the most about this is how presumably competent CEOs jump into AI hype so easily. And they are the ones running the economy! Still, 25 % is pretty high in my eyes. I wonder how it compares to other technologies.

I've just been accepted to volunteer at a Roller Derby competition, I'm so excited!

Trying to demystify the cache in this video. Cache-oblivious matrix multiplication is not the only time that knowing the workings of the cache is useful, it also comes in handy when optimizing other algorithms and avoiding bugs. youtu.be/ZrnsE9tyR5s

COCONUT CRAB INFODUMP: they (1) live up to 60 years, (2) are among the few animals that can crack coconuts open, (3) are the largest terrestrial invertebrate - 4.1 kg / 91 cm, (4) can drown in water, (5) like to fall off trees instead of climbing them down en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut...

Tried Julia for the first time today! I wanted to run computations on GPU and so I used AcceleratedKernels.jl, which supports multiple backends. Reminded me of Triton - a high-level GPU interface for a high-level language. I put the code in my GPU repository: github.com/Vincent-Ther...

Google found liable for "willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power" in advertisement markets (duh). Always happy to see antitrust laws doing something for once. www.reuters.com/technology/u...

My new video presents the main steps of a whole-genome sequencing project and explains how DNA analysis programs work. My favorite part is the discussion around functional / nonfunctional ("junk") DNA toward the end. youtu.be/UxSmYhRb9LE

Hadn't realized how mad people were at the IAU back then: 48th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2007. DECLARING PLUTO A PLANET AND DECLARING MARCH 13, 2007, "PLUTO PLANET DAY" AT THE LEGISLATURE. www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/07%...

I'll use that whenever I see someone giving their own name to something

The Mario Kart trailer made me realize that I must listen to more harmonica music

BONNE FÊTE CÉLINE ✨ TOUT LE MONDE DIT QUE C'ÉTAIT DU LIPSYNC MAIS MON SENS CRITIQUE PREND UNE VOLÉE QUAND ON PARLE D'ELLE

Expectations for The Movie: 1. Link shorter than Zelda 2. Zoras played by live action actors in uncanny suits 3. NO MULTIVERSE SHENANIGAN 4. Wallmaster / dead hand jumpscare 5. Characters playing wind instruments 6. Link in the Gerudo outfit

I know I'm late with the February talk around asteroid 2024 YR4, but I just read on the PLANETARY DEFENSE blog of the NASA that while the probability of impact with Earth is estimated at 0.004%, the probability of impact with the Moon is estimated at 1.7% in 2032 blogs.nasa.gov/planetarydef...

Janette est une véritable pionnière du féminisme et de la culture québécoise. Grâce à son audace et à sa parole libre, elle a brisé d’innombrables tabous et ouvert la voie à des conversations essentielles que notre société n’osait pas aborder.

I want to talk about how the periodic table is written in Chinese because I find it beautiful 🧵

Friendly reminder that Julia Child worked as a top-secret researcher for the OSS during WW2. Other fun facts from her Wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Child

I compared 7 GPU frameworks to pick the best one for a project, and I realized that GPU programming is really more complicated than it should be. Frameworks are either not portable, not convenient, or not suited to graphics / general-purpose applications. github.com/Vincent-Ther...

I'm not good enough to read Chinese novels yet, but I no longer find beginner-level texts challenging enough. Here are some websites I use to practice Chinese at an intermediate level 🧵