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LawZero, Yoshua Bengio’s startup, also proposes to automate scientific research and experimentation, from the perspective of safety, by being explicitly “non-agentic”: https://lawz…

For those interested in this type of climate data visualization apps, I have worked on this one in the past, which is actively maintained with a lot of love, and very nice: https:/…

Sorry for the stupid question but is Elliptic Tales your favorite or is it Summing it up?

For "something that is published" (which includes a comment like this) I clearly dislike it too, but for chatting / texting, I realize that I often use it more than my interlocutor…

Very interesting project! I cannot resist mentioning an old project of mine that was made in a very similar spirit, but way before any LLM: wrapping a classic Lone Wolf gamebook ar…

I asked a question about exactly this on Stack Overflow, many years ago, which I think received a nice answer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57966935/asyncio-task-vs...

Author here: my learning objectives, in order of importance, are: (1) vocal understanding, (2) speaking, (3) reading, and (4) typing and writing (far further). As I explain, I'm mo…

Thanks for suggesting it, here you go: https://cjauvin.github.io/posts/learning-persian/

I've been using ChatGPT to learn Persian (as a third language) for more than a year now (along with a heavy use of Anki), and it's incredibly useful and surprisingly good, for abou…

Counterpoint: I actually really enjoy his style of writing, which I find clear, patient (you must appreciate visual examples and exploration though) and very often challenging and …

One of my greatest pleasure of random walking the internet is building my list of possible next books to read.. thank you for this one!

If you consider this from the angle of Wittgenstein's "language games", you could say that the problem would be "simply" to distinguish between these two, quite different, language…

> Emacs is a powerful tool, but it also demands a lot from its user. Eventually I got tired of dealing with the host of plugins and customizations that I needed to keep my system r…

Great app, just tried it, works very nicely and has just the right set of things it should have, thanks!

What I find interesting about spaced repetition is the underlying thesis that raw memorization, in certain contexts, is playing a more important role for learning than what some mo…