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bouh

395 karma · joined January 23, 2015

Technical CEO / CTO

Founder of https://nowledgeable.com : interactive exercises for science, code and Machine learning.

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bouh··on MIT: 20% drop in incoming graduate students
In France STEM PhD are expected to last 3 year and the funding is sized like that. It is also considered as a job. It is only done if salary is funded in most cases.

Often it spill over a bit and I guess France travail (French job agency managing insurance for people losing their job) should often be cited /thanked in Phd student thesis for funding the final steps of their manuscript.

There are limited internship culture during the phd itself Afaik.

However phd is never started at Bachelor level, only after Msc that last two years and requires an internship or research projet.

I heard a person saying a bit like you that it is not enough to grow a Real expert though compared to US phd. But Oftentimes postdoc always follow for Longer and longer

bouh··on Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?
I use docker compose a lot for small projects on a single box like Ovh vps. With a reverse proxy on the host. Nice ans easy to setup and update.

If you want to test something that is between compose and k8s, check ring: https://github.com/kemeter/ring

bouh··on Zed is 1.0
Did you market the project as trusted? Récent update (à few month) requises the trust to reenable the analyses feature It took me a while to understand lol At Somme point I though that the parker were broken in my codebase xD
bouh··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
You might be interested by tournesol.app
bouh··on I Quit Spotify
Deezer has been quite stable imo and I find it not clutered
bouh··on Ask HN: How many of you are self employed?
Can you tell us a bit more about this creative residence and how did you get accepted there ?
bouh··on Heuristics that almost always work
Young machine learning practitioners : That is why you should do not trust accuracy when doing a ML model on imbalanced datasets.

And in general, better use precision, recall, f1-score or confusion matrices

bouh··on Is Web3 Bullshit?
I quite like the idea of being skeptical of something but still hedging on its potential success. Thanks
bouh··on How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
The best way imo is the telegram bot
bouh··on WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser
hey very nice work !

do you think that a docker.js running containers in the browser is something that could become a reality soon if we follow you line of work ?

bouh··on The True Meaning of Technical Debt (2020)
One problem with technical tech is that it often talked about abstractly : "there is technical debt", "There are code smells", etc.

But if we want to use technical tech as a tool practically, we should be able to quantify the technical debt precisely.

We should be able to say I have 10 000 € per day or 100 000 € of technical debt.

I have developed (very early stage) a tool to quantify technical debt : I appreciate any feedback (if stated kindly :p)

https://github.com/lcetinsoy/tech-debt

bouh··on The Greening of Paris Makes Its Mayor More Than a Few Enemies
Paris is pretty dense already ! In the top 10 cities : https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-world-s-most-densely...

High towers cannot be put everywhere

bouh··on SwiftWasm: Run Swift in Browsers
Seems that swift is gaining a lot of traction. It has also have drawn interest in the Machine learning community
bouh··on Ask HN: How can I get better at bash?
hackerrank has various challenges in bash : https://www.hackerrank.com/domains/shell/bash
bouh··on Keras-based molecular autoencoder
Do you or one of your co-authors are looking for master II interns on this topic ? I am a Machine-learning MSc candidate at the Paris-Sud University looking for an internship in applied ML to other scientific fields like Physics or chemistry. I think that Generative models has great potential for system design. web curriculum : https://laurentcetinsoy.net/cv

You can contact me if you want a more formal version : )

Kind regards

bouh··on I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.
His post on living systems is absolutely great, just discovered thanks to his thread...

http://hintjens.com/blog:74

bouh··on How Mathematicians Cut Cake
Here a vsauce recipee to explain how to do that ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s86-Z-CbaHA
bouh··on Introducing Stack Overflow Documentation Beta
I really hope that all open source documentation quality will increased by adopting such kind of tools. The fact that SO is used an informal documentation was a strong signal that there were much improvement to be done. I am just sad because I wanted to work on project like that :'(. Great job SO !
bouh··on Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today
Dear Alan,

What do you think about EAST paradigm which tries to revamp the original spirit of OOP you stated ?

Do you think that the machine learning community suffer from the syndrome of "normal considered harmful". Like using vendor hardware instance of designing their own (FPGA for instance)

bouh··on The Genetic Algorithm Explained
Would you recommend a resource serving as an introduction?
bouh··on Learn data science in your browser
I have thought of something like that for teaching programming language, you dit it, this is very good ! You should make your tool a generic plateform an sell it to teaching organizations.