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Électrique ou pas, la voiture citadine est un oxymore
https://www.lesoir.be/677186/article/2025-05-22/le-chinois-byd-sattaque-au-marche-de-la-citadine-electrique

Rant about PHP
You know a technology is declining when the most basic questions about its most bizarre quirks are left completely unanswered for years.
#PHP is like that. Every day I have many of these questions. I look for them. No one asked them before, no one wrote about them before.
I'm baffled by the lack of curiosity and proactivity of its community.
I know it sounds like me piling up on people I don't know anything about, but I used to invest a lot of time programming in PHP. I went to conferences, I made some open source libraries for it, like a PHP kernel for Jupyter Notebooks, I even made a library to work with dataframes, tensors and matrices in PHP (although I lost this one because my laptop was stolen before I released... and I didn't had it in me to rewrite it again).
Then, the ones who I admired the most in that space, like Nikita Popov, started leaving it to work in more intellectually vibrant communities... and it shows.
I'm sure Nikita Popov would be much more gracious than me when talking about it. I can only speculate about his motivations, but at least I can tell you about mine: It was precisely about that same lack of curiosity and creativity that I mentioned before, it felt unbearably grey and sad.

À Paris le lundi 31 mars et le mardi 1er avril, si ça vous dit de partager un coup Š boire (le lundi soir) ou une séance de grimpe (plutôt le mardi matin Š Arkose Chevaleret Š l'ouverture Š 7h), ce serait avec plaisir !
Envoyez-moi un MP !

Medium writer Paolo Perrone curates a short list of interesting algorithms, the rationale behind them, along with graphs and diagrams to boot.
Algorithms that made this short list:
Wave Function Collapse
The Diffusion Model
Simulated Annealing
Sleep Sort
BOGO Sort
BOID
SHOR’s
Marching Cubes
Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance and,
Boyer Moore
"The 10 Weirdest, Most Brilliant Algorithms Ever Devised and What They Actually Do&…

10 Weirdest Algorithms That Changed Tech Forever | Data Science Collective
Discover 10 unusual algorithms that defied logic, broke rules, and transformed the way we think about technology and problem-solving.

Quanta Magazine authors Janna Levin and Steven Strogatz strike up a conversation with Ellie Pavlick (Research Scientist at Google Deep Mind) about the differences and similarities between the way people understand language, what NLP algorithms do, and the fact that such conversations more often than not shed light into more than Linguistics' computational side.
"Will AI Ever Understand Language Like Humans?"

Will AI Ever Understand Language Like Humans? | Quanta Magazine
AI may sound like a human, but that doesn’t mean that AI learns like a human. In this episode, Ellie Pavlick explains why understanding how LLMs can process language could unlock deeper insights into both AI and the human mind.

Dernières nouvelles du paradis du capitalisme: faire ses courses Š crédit.
https://futurism.com/doordash-klarna-loan-partnership

"Don't do that, Dave"
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/anthropics-new-ai-model-turns-to-blackmail-when-engineers-try-to-take-it-offline/?utm_source=semafor

"C’est une incroyable découverte que viennent de faire des chercheurs de l’UCLouvain et leurs collègues espagnols. Notre cerveau peut directement modifier la composition de notre microbiote. Et ce, en moins de deux heures !"
#science #cerveau

Le fondateur du WEF de Davos aurait piqué dans la caisse, d'où sa démission
#WEF #Davos