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rossant
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About rossant
I'm interested in mathematics, scientific computing, data visualization, computer graphics, GPU programming, web applications, AI. I wrote several books on Python for scientific computing.
After a sudden personal event, I decided to devote a large portion of my research activities to the shaken baby syndrome controversy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402
- Website: https://cyrille.rossant.net
- Email: first name dot last name at gmail dot com
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Comment #49130762
I can't wait for nano banana on pathology images.
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Comment #49130741
I came here to say this. You beat me to it.
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Comment #49122509
Is that still going to be the case in 1 year? 5? 10?
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Comment #49091220
This is serious. We're in uncharted territory. The geopolitical context is already complicated enough that we shouldn't be dismissive of such a rapid technological race. I'm glad A…
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Comment #49090938
See also Datoviz for 3D support in addition to fast, scalable, GPU-based 2D visualization: https://datoviz.org/ (I'm the main developer)
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Comment #49031810
What if my prose is AI-assisted, but it's the result of hours of conversations with an agent, with constant back-and-forth, dozens of iterative rewrites, and refinement until the s…
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Comment #49014490
This is talking to an AI colleague and not to a chatbot. That's how you use frontier models or coding agents nowadays to do good work.
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Comment #48879141
I don't write code anymore, because AI writes better code than me. I could write code, but the next AI would find 10 ways to make it better and more consistent with the rest of the…
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Comment #48817336
aka expectation
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Comment #48793163
I fully agree. I loathe slow software. I hate bloat. I love fast software. As a developer, I'm completely, even irrationally, obsessed with speed, performance optimization, and pro…
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Comment #48791638
Pretty sure this website is satire.
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Comment #48789331
That, and also the very long comma-separated lists with sometimes 10+ items.
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Comment #48783405
That's one way to see it. Can't we also imagine that more and more people now rely on AI rather than humans to learn programming (or more accurately learn vibe-coding)?
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Comment #48360248
Interesting. It makes me think of the idea of fighting piracy by providing a solid legal alternative through streaming platforms, etc.
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Comment #48280775
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-...
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Comment #48142016
Brings me back! Well done!
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Comment #48118142
Looking at him I can't believe he's 100. I haven't seen that many centenaries that look that fit.
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Comment #48118107
One can understand why Internet access is useful, but why would it have to be mandatory?
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Comment #48023003
They likely encode not URLs for the public, but internal identifiers that are only useful internally.
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Comment #48018439
Exactly. Glad to see someone else articulate this so clearly.
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Comment #48001221
I think TUIs have started to become popular again a few years ago, before Claude Code was released?
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Comment #47975115
I can totally relate. I often listen to instrumental music while I work. Lately I've listened to music with lyrics and I have a slightly harder time reading, writing and thinking. …
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Comment #47892392
I was curious why AI wasn't mentioned. Then I noticed the date: 2009.