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Science, data et shawarma. 🇨🇵🇱🇧
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franklinmaillot.bsky.social
Must watch to put what's happening in #Gaza into perspective. And very well documented, as always with Sara El-Yafi.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGW_...
The History They Tried to Bury
YouTube video by Sara El-Yafi
www.youtube.com
July 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
franklinmaillot.bsky.social
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anthroping.zottmann.dev Anthropic Status @anthroping.zottmann.dev · Jul 25
🟡 Elevated errors on Claude 4 Sonnet

> The last bump of errors was between 1:58 PT / 8:58 UTC and 2:21 PT / 9:21 UTC.

We haven't yet resolved the root cause, and we are working on that. We are applying tactical mitigations and we're still at a high risk of errors.

#Anthropic #Claude
Elevated errors on Claude 4 Sonnet
The last bump of errors was between 1:58 PT / 8:58 UTC and 2:21 PT / 9:21 UTC. We haven't yet resolved the root cause, and we are working on that. We are applying tactical mitigations and we're still at a high risk of errors.
status.anthropic.com
July 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
franklinmaillot.bsky.social
Yuval Noah Harari on #Israel and #Gaza:

"It could be one of the biggest turning points in Jewish history since the fall of the Temple in 70 CE."

youtu.be/pB5Ul3GHFxA?...
Yuval Noah Harari on Israel, AI, and the Future | Unholy Live in London
YouTube video by Unholy Podcast
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July 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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timkellogg.me
new post: do LLMS understand?

what does "understand" mean? i didn't know, so i looked some stuff up and this is what i got

spoiler: LLMs do understand things, afaict

timkellogg.me/blog/2025/07...
Do LLMs understand?
What does
timkellogg.me
July 19, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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cedricmas.bsky.social
ALERTE GENERALE !

Une pétition a été lancée sur le site de l'Assemblée nationale demandant que le gouvernement arrête d'utiliser X pour ses communications officielles.
On signe toutes et tous pour lui donner le maximum de visibilité.
C'est ici :
petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...
Cesser d'utiliser X (anciennement Twitter) pour les communications officielles du gouvernement - Cesser d'utiliser X (anciennement Twitter) pour les communications officielles du gouvernement - Platef...
Cessez d'utiliser cette plateforme comme l'un des principaux porte-parole des communications officielles en France. Il existe des alternatives bien mieux modérées et régulées, et il est même possible ...
petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr
July 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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franklinmaillot.bsky.social
Les guignols pro-hamas de LFI fournissent l'homme de paille parfait à qui veut décrédibiliser les condamnations des crimes d'Israël. Mais faire passer Netanyahou pour un philanthrope, il faut oser.
Qu'il ait facilité l'essor du Hamas qui a abouti au 7 oct ne vous pose aucun problème.
June 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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maggiewittlin.bsky.social
The opposite of conclave is convlex
May 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
franklinmaillot.bsky.social
"Message to my Americans friends"

youtu.be/AgPcLrgZ52c
Message à mes amis américains.
YouTube video by Claude Malhuret
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May 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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astrokatie.com
The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
April 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
franklinmaillot.bsky.social
Not even mad at #Gemini 2.5 Pro for questioning our current reality.
Excerpt from Gemini thought process: 1. Acknowledge the Premise: The user insists we are in April 2025, facing a specific trade war scenario. My knowledge cutoff is irrelevant to their perceived reality. I need to operate within this scenario and analyze the recommendations based on that context. 1. Acknowledge the New Information: The user has provided very specific, recent (fictional, dated April 2025, but treated as current context for the scenario) information about major US tariffs, market crashes, and recession fears. This significantly changes the immediate investment environment.
April 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
franklinmaillot.bsky.social
No matter how many times I've tried, I can't make #ChatGPT image generation correctly depict someone sawing off the branch they're sitting on.

I've tried other LLMs and they all struggle, although they perfectly understand the metaphor. Is this a new AGI benchmark?
A screenshot of a ChatGPT interface where the user prompts, “Create image of a man sawing off the branch he's sitting on.” Below the prompt is an AI-generated cartoon-style image of a man sitting safely on the trunk side of a branch while intending to saw off the other side. Follow up of the same conversation. ChatGPT: "You're absolutely right to point out that the image generated doesn't depict that properly. The key element of the idiom is that the person is sitting on the outer side of the branch between the cut and the tip of the branch so that once the branch is cut, they fall. In the image gave you, the man is on the safe side, which ruins the visual logic of the metaphor. Would you like me to generate a corrected version where the man is clearly sitting on the outer side of the branch, cutting between himself and the tree trunk?" The newly generated image is a very slight variation on the previous one. Still wrong. Again, further down the same conversation. ChatGPT: "Let me fix that properly: He should be sitting on the outer end of the branch, Sawing between himself and the tree trunk, Oblivious or confused about what's about to happen. regenerate it now with that correction." The generated image is once again almost identical to the previous one. Still wrong.
April 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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firefoxx66.bsky.social
Huge thanks to my sister for helping put these together.
Image with text that reads: It's happening now: I know it's totally overwhelming but here are just a handful of things happening in US Science & public health RIGHT NOW. I need you to know, so you can realise how you are being defrauded from a healthy, disease free future, with thriving science. I need you to know, so you can tell others.
February 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
franklinmaillot.bsky.social
I found a notebook that doubles as a password manager. Very clever!

I know it's safe because it has a little lock icon in the bottom right corner. 🔒

#password #cyberSecurityTips
A turquoise notebook titled "My Notebook" The packaging band displays the words "Be Creative!" alongside icons illustrating its features It also mentions the brand "Legami Milano." A page labeled "IDS & PASSWORDS" with three columns for "Name," "ID," and "PW" (password). The layout is lined and structured for manual entry of login credentials. A close-up of an interior page of the notebook. The page is lined, and a small lock icon is printed in the bottom right corner.
January 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
franklinmaillot.bsky.social
Someone got really bored at work.

www.amazon.fr/dp/B087LY2KRR
A screenshot from an Amazon listing for sticker labels. The image shows a roll of sticker labels against a lush green background, with environmental elements highlighting its eco-friendly features. The product description is: "Phomemo M110 étiquettes multifonction pour étiquettes thermiques, 1,97"x1,18" (50x30 mm), adapté à l'imprimante d'étiquettes Phomemo M110 M200 M120 M220 M221, 230 étiquettes/rouleau" A closer view of the same product image. The sample label reads: “Rotten Rose Apothecary Bag of Dicks Handcrafted goat milk soap, because you deserve it. For External Use Only Net Wt 3.5oz"
January 5, 2025 at 10:31 AM
franklinmaillot.bsky.social
"The key skill in getting the most out of LLMs is learning to work with tech that is both inherently unreliable and incredibly powerful at the same time."
simonwillison.net Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · Dec 31
Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned out about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/...

Table of contents:
The GPT-4 barrier was comprehensively broken Some of those GPT-4 models run on my laptop LLM prices crashed, thanks to competition and increased efficiency Multimodal vision is common, audio and video are starting to emerge Voice and live camera mode are science fiction come to life Prompt driven app generation is a commodity already Universal access to the best models lasted for just a few short months “Agents” still haven’t really happened yet Evals really matter Apple Intelligence is bad, Apple’s MLX library is excellent The rise of inference-scaling “reasoning” models Was the best currently available LLM trained in China for less than $6m? The environmental impact got better The environmental impact got much, much worse The year of slop Synthetic training data works great LLMs somehow got even harder to use Knowledge is incredibly unevenly distributed LLMs need better criticism Everything tagged “llms” on my blog in 2024
December 31, 2024 at 9:32 PM
franklinmaillot.bsky.social
First time I see Claude pondering and changing its mind in the same response. I was asking for a color palette to use in a data visualization.

The fact that it pretends "looking at theses colors" is quite funny.
Screenshot of Claude's response: Let me create a more distinct gradient from purple to teal that will ensure better discrimination between categories: 1. #581C87 (Deep purple) 2. #6B21A8 3. #5B21B6 4. #2E4A8C 5. #155E75 6. #0E7490 7. #0891B2 8. #06B6D4 (Bright teal) You know what - looking at these colors, they're still not distinct enough for easy differentiation. Let me propose a bolder gradient: 1. #7E22CE (Vibrant purple) 2. #6D28D9 3. #4338CA 4. #1D4ED8 5. #0EA5E9 6. #06B6D4 7. #14B8A6 8. #0D9488 (Rich teal) This second set provides better visual separation between each step while maintaining a logical progression. The contrast between adjacent colors is stronger, making it easier to distinguish between categories in your visualization. Would you like to see another variation with even more contrast, or would you prefer to try a different color combination altogether?
December 13, 2024 at 10:39 AM
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tbray.org
Blue sky above Mount Lebanon, sometime in the late Sixties. This is at the American University of Beirut’s Agriculture Faculty experimental farm; my Dad was an Ag prof at AUB then.

Hey, it has a Web site now! www.aub.edu.lb/fafs/arec

Photo credit: Bill Bray.

#blueskyabove #Lebanon
Transfer of a slide from the 1960's, thus kind of muddy-looking. A blue sky, partially cloudy, over indistinct mountains. In the foreground, farm fields, a white shed, and a few trees silhouetted blackly.
December 7, 2024 at 12:55 AM
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jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Please talk about the importance of text 🙏 !

A good title or annotation can 10x a chart. The way I think about it is “chart” vs “piece of communication”.
November 22, 2024 at 4:47 PM
franklinmaillot.bsky.social
So to summarize Microsoft Ignite keynote.
Copilot, Copilot agents, Copilot devices, Copilot Pages, Copilot Studio, Copilot in Microsoft 365, Copilot in Sharepoint, Copilot in Copilot, Copilot Actions, Copilot Analytics, Github Copilot...

#msignite
November 19, 2024 at 4:03 PM
franklinmaillot.bsky.social
Pour toutes celles et ceux qui n'osent pas révéler leur passion d'Excel de peur de passer pour des fous 🤓

Merci David Castollo-Lopes d'oser parler de tableaux croisés dynamiques sur la radio publique 😄

#Excel #MSExcel #datanerd

youtu.be/rrXds_IXzvI
La comptabilité peut-elle provoquer du plaisir ? - La question de David Castello-Lopes
YouTube video by France Inter
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November 19, 2024 at 12:33 PM
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jgaffuri.bsky.social
Population #map of Paris by predominant age group, 200m resolution
See more on: eurostat.github.io/gridviz/exam...
Data from @insee_FR using GridViz and a ternary map legend
population map of paris, by predominant age group, with ternary classification
November 17, 2024 at 12:53 PM
franklinmaillot.bsky.social
Confession: I'm still confused between Lists, Feeds and Starter Packs 🧐
November 16, 2024 at 11:12 AM
franklinmaillot.bsky.social
On savait déjà que Fouloscopie était la meilleure chaîne de Youtube. Mais cette vidéo est encore d'un autre niveau.
Une plongée dans la fabrique de la Science avec des visualisations de toute beauté.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xe3...
Comment naissent les GRANDES DÉCOUVERTES scientifiques ?
YouTube video by Fouloscopie
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2024 at 10:19 PM
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jburnmurdoch.ft.com
A tale of two platforms:

BlueSky user numbers have hit a new record high in recent days, while the number of people deleting their accounts on X/Twitter has rocketed 🚀
November 13, 2024 at 11:21 AM
franklinmaillot.bsky.social
J'ai même déjà vu un ado utiliser ses pouces pour taper sur un clavier d'ordinateur. 🤳😄

Mais l'informatique n'est pas synonyme de bureautique. Il serait plus utile d'enseigner l'informatique comme on enseigne la physique et la chimie.
November 12, 2024 at 10:26 AM