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Thank you for this article. What a refreshment from so many articles about AI…

What’s important and complex in Shakespeare plays, is not what it’s written, but what’s left to the interpretation of the director, or even of the public — the ambiguities, the imperfections, that let us imagine the motivations of the characters (as the article points - the motives are clear but not the motivations), and let us perceive their emotions, feel their reactions, mixed with ours.

Exactly what generative AI doesn't let you do.

This is probably the right place to remind beginners in the study of ramens, that basic knowledge can be acquired from the classic "Tampopo" movie.

Just the opening scene is must-know : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeVhZkbAc5k

:)

> You cannot name a single politician who is a mathematician.

I can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9dric_Villani

( and of course Wikipedia has a list :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematician-politici... )

In the long term we are all dead. (Keynes)

Really feels like 1928

It’s like a Facebook feed - I find it strangely addictive to read them

Random bits of lives, random thoughts of people you don’t know but that you can somehow relate to - just because they wrote something

I think it’s just poorly worded; it’s about the upward mobility of the _generation born after the Second World War_. This generation lacked opportunities and this created unrest in the 60s and 70s.

The previous generation – the one that reached adulthood before and during WW 2 – had upward mobility in the 40s, 50s, and wanted its children to have too

- it’s 3 days not 5 (e.g leaving NYC Wednesday morning arriving SF Saturday evening)

- the internet connection is excellent (even in most tunnels) so you can work, have video meetings, etc, not to mention play chess online

> Romania was basically under German occupation through most of WWII.

that's not correct. Romania was an independent country, with a king, government, etc. Romania was allied to Germany, and there was a German presence, but the Germans did not exercise any power. In fact, there was a "palace coup" that switch alliances in 1944.

( https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/feb/21/computing... )

on the contrary let's have fun about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA [IDIOCRACY Opening Scene (2006) Mike Judge]

These letters are indeed jewels... There's one sentence in a letter to Louise Colet has marked my life:

L'avenir nous tourmente, le passé nous retient, c'est pour ça que le présent nous échappe

The future torments us, the past holds us back -- that’s why the present escapes us.

it's actually shipping !

Leroy Merlin (the French "big box" home improvement chain) is selling a electric screwdriver that use sodium-ion battery, seems to be working well: (French) https://www.leroymerlin.fr/produits/outillage/outillage-elec...

doesn't seem to be many in stock - it's only available at some stores - but seems to be victim of its success

I still don't understand why anyone would use lambdas - except if you 1) trust Amazon blindly, and 2) have no understanding whatsoever of how a server works, and therefore absolutely unable to set one up (even as a AWS instance, LOL).

From my experience, they are clumsy, complex to set up, to manage, you can't easily have CI/CD (I still don't know how you get the code of a lambda from and to git ?!?!), etc, etc...

Is it just me ? Am I alone ?

:)

> the general view in Sweden is that the school is working terrible

It's quite universal to find that schools in your own country are terrible :)

Having lived (and raised children) in multiple countries, I can tell you I've never seen a country where people would say good things about their own education systems

Not sure why... probably simply because everybody has (good !) ideas on how it could be better, but they are not easy to implement ! :). Probably also because that's really something people care about

The business of VCs is to take risk. VCs _know_ that 8 out of 10 of their investment will return zero, zitch, nada. They just expect one of of 10 to make it even -- and another one to make it 20x.

So that doesn't mean that Arduino is on anything great: it just means it has been able to convince VCs that there's _some probability_ that they will make it big.

But the probability of doing something big is still very low...

( In fact a VC once told me that, 3 months after investing - i.e. a few board meetings max - he already knows if the company will succeed or not. And in 8 out of 10, he will just do the figuration until failure - at best, buy for cents on the dollar)

Violin.

I can't spend one day without it, as a break every few hours of coding or meeting, it's really great

It's quite a lot of work, but really the best way to make your brain two sides work together - as well as your fingers, arms, body...

I started 5 years ago, with some prior knowledge of music from being a kid.

Oh, and now I can play with people, to people. I started in my mom's retirement home - she loved it, and other residents too, and even the staff, because all the residents would be so quite after that... and now that I play better I can play to my friends, family..

It changed my life.