I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

J'ai souvent en tête cette belle phrase du regretté Henri Leclerc : "Autrefois, on les appelait les gardiens de la paix : aujourd'hui, ce sont les forces de l’ordre. Ça pose un problème." www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

Cannot think of any way to game their new system... nope, can't think of any possible issue with this But let's look at the bright side, and preemptively congratulate all our alphabetically-advantaged colleagues in Maths/CS heavy subfields, for an imminent/well deserved promotion

Yesterday my 5th grader told me their teacher gave them an assignment: write a description of their own secret garden (apparently they've been reading it)...that she would then feed into ChatGPT to make a picture of it I hate this so much

Just realized an upside of AI slop: Anytime I read a really stupid comment somewhere (e.g. Youtube) I allow myself to quickly dismiss it as written by a bot, which may or may not be true but is less existentially threatening than the alternative (i.e. they may walk among us) #denial

Such a perfect illustration of the limits of stochastic text generation: There will always be (many) situations where confidently-wrong Redditors outweigh authoritative sources, confusing the $hit out of LLMs with no hope of recovery. Those are not hallucinations, just the expected behavior...

At loss for words...

The solution to hungry children is a state that provides for children. It is not convincing venture capitalists that somehow they can make oodles of profit by feeding hungry children

2/3 L'État, à la base, ce n'est pas juste d'être une immense tirelire qui collecte des impôts et reverse des subventions aux entreprises et des allocations aux ménages. Sa fonction première c'est d'assurer la production de services non marchands de qualité.

Prière de soutenir cette demande (un compte est nécessaire, mais réalisable en 2min chrono, promis !) pour reconsidérer l'utilité des marchés voyages de nos institutions préférées.

Translates to : "A government never declares it is fascist. It rather announces that antifascists are criminals."

Editing for a reputable journal: 🤔 10 reviewers invited 🟢 3 reviews accepted/returned 🟠 All reviews deplore insufficiently comprehensive benchmark (looks quite complete to me but why not...) 🔴 Reviews exclusively suggest inclusion of methods authored by reviewer 😡 Are we still there in 2025?

Last day of #ARNASydney2025 and this cartoon from @xkcd.com is just particularly appropriate, so I had to re-share! #RNAsky

On n’arrête pas le progrès ! Voici donc "CIRGPT". En gros, ça mache le travail des entreprises et cabinets qui doivent présenter leurs dossiers techniques Crédit d'impôt recherche auprès de l’administration fiscale ou du ministère de l'ESR. Conçu par une boîte basée dans le Delaware. 175 euros/mois.

Le @CNRS rend hommage à Gilles Dowek, qui laisse derrière lui une œuvre à la croisée de l’informatique et de la philosophie marquée par la volonté de transmettre. ➡️ www.ins2i.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/... #lmf_lab @cnrs-paris-saclay.bsky.social @univparissaclay.bsky.social @ENS_ParisSaclay

Concern has been growing in Europe about the power the United States has over cloud services owned by US companies, including not just the ability to demand data, but to shut it off altogether. Canada faces those same vulnerabilities. www.disconnect.blog/p/why-canada...

We used to think we were the product, it turns out that what those companies are really buying is the right to digest your content, and ultimately impersonate you...

« La commission a découvert que la quasi-totalité des dispositifs d’aide aux entreprises n’était subordonnée à aucune conditionnalité : rien de contraignant en cas de destruction d’emplois, de délocalisation, de distribution de dividendes, et même plus globalement de respect de la loi française. »

Mutatis mutandis ça marche pour la recherche scientifique

This has been a wild story to follow. Someone is leading a campaign of pure harassment against @devoevomed.bsky.social 1/ bsky.app/profile/devo...

This trending is fire

Does anyone "get" why Adobe is pushing so hard for their "AI summary" feature in Acrobat? It's really annoying/detrimental to UX + I'm getting tons of ads for this on Youtube... So they must see value in having PDF contents sent to them, but even that seems a stretch in terms of business model...

« Et l'IA, alors ? » À force qu'on me pose la question, j'ai fini par mettre à plat mon opinion sur l'usage de l'IA générative en traduction. Ce n'est pas un article pour spécialistes, mais j'espère que ceux qui n'y connaissent rien en sortiront mieux renseignés. clement-martin.fr/2025/06/05/e...

Let me see. They drew Aaron Swartz to suicide, they closed the Pirate Bay, because they did not ask for the permission of publishers and authors (or right managements societies), but now we need an exemption for AI?

Intelligence artificielle, le renoncement (billet de blog) blogs.mediapart.fr/david-monnia...

Yet another blatant example of scientific elitism: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb4V... Fortunately, posterity awaits.

This will sound oddly familiar to anyone looking at the motivation slides of presentations at AI/ML conf or seminars (our model is discriminative, but we can't think of any use case where it would be used to discriminate with nepharious intents.. nope, can't imagine)

Quelqu'un sait ce qui se passe à Jussieu ce matin ? Campus fermé pour raison non communiquée ...

En France, 1 % des adultes sont titulaires d'un doctorat (PhD), soit un peu moins que la moyenne au sein de l'UE 🇪🇺 (1,1 %), et beaucoup moins qu'en Suisse (3,2 %) et aux États-Unis (2,1 %). Données présentées par @aefsuprecherche.bsky.social #ESR www.aefinfo.fr/depeche/729197

Well I'd advise to GET OUT rather than trying to get in (sorry @imartayan.bsky.social I'm sure you'll be fine 😬)

To my Canadian friends: Has anyone yet thought of proposing Blue coastal States to join as provinces? This deep into US dystopia, I think I would be amused by a shrunk "red states" USofA union, having to rely on Florida/Texas for shipping abroad their precious few US products still in demand...

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

I really don't get the impact on Wall Street ofTrump refusing to rule out recession: At this point, how would anyone take this dude's econ acumen seriously??? (+ P(Bullshit)=1) OR WS believes that enough stupid folks with money still believe the orange guy... Unsure which one's the most depressing

From “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler #skybrary #skybrarians #booksky

“Is President Trump a Russian asset?” Jeff Merkley United States Senator

RNA xkcd.com/3056

Our lab (AMIBio@Ecole Polytechnique, jointly led with Sebastian Will and Sarah Berkemer) is eligible for 2 tenure-track positions (teaching@Polytech/pure research@CNRS) at senior postdoc level in Paris France Get in touch ASAP if you're into RNA Bioinfo/structural biology and/or ML Please RT 🙏 😀

#Institutionnel | Le @cnrs.fr recrute des chercheurs et chercheuses sur des #Chaires de professeur junior dans plusieurs domaines relatifs aux sciences #informatiques. Retrouvez les #postes susceptibles d'être ouverts à partir de mars 2025. ➡️https://buff.ly/4gR3y1U

Le CNRS et le Rectorat de Paris ont réuni 500 collégiens et lycéens pour rencontrer les #DécodeusesNumérique, des héroïnes de BD inspirées de scientifiques accomplies, pour déconstruire les stéréotypes et découvrir les métiers de l’informatique. ✨

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