Benoit Essiambre
@bessiambre.bsky.social
Maxwell's imp 😈
Vis viva and Vis mortua and Vis acceleratrix!
S ∝ H ∝ p log p (knowledge is power)
Vis viva and Vis mortua and Vis acceleratrix!
S ∝ H ∝ p log p (knowledge is power)
The US's isolationism may be a once in a lifetime opportunity to move the global business hubs of eg. finance, defense and tech to Canada, Europe and Asia breaking the network effects that have been keeping them in the US.
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The US's isolationism may be a once in a lifetime opportunity to move the global business hubs of eg. finance, defense and tech to Canada, Europe and Asia breaking the network effects that have been keeping them in the US.
The US becoming isolationist opens the door for other countries to become the global hubs of industries.
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The US becoming isolationist opens the door for other countries to become the global hubs of industries.
I wonder if that spike is that 30 story
apartment they're building on main street icondevelopments.ca/upcoming/
apartment they're building on main street icondevelopments.ca/upcoming/
September 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I wonder if that spike is that 30 story
apartment they're building on main street icondevelopments.ca/upcoming/
apartment they're building on main street icondevelopments.ca/upcoming/
Great post. It helped to convince myself of these ideas, to work out theoretical reasons why they work. It's about reducing entropy of code including reducing dependency lengths (this happens to be the same metrics AIs target to generate good language and code).
benoitessiambre.com/entropy.html
benoitessiambre.com/entropy.html
September 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Great post. It helped to convince myself of these ideas, to work out theoretical reasons why they work. It's about reducing entropy of code including reducing dependency lengths (this happens to be the same metrics AIs target to generate good language and code).
benoitessiambre.com/entropy.html
benoitessiambre.com/entropy.html
I'm not sure if USD can be considered "safety" when Fed independence is under assault.
September 9, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I'm not sure if USD can be considered "safety" when Fed independence is under assault.
A bad time for Carney to be barred from having influence over the Bank of Canada. Who else remembers when he wanted to stabilize ngdp? www.bbc.com/news/busines...
Mark Carney suggests targeting economic output
Mark Carney, who will take over as governor of the Bank of England in June, has suggested targeting economic output instead of inflation.
www.bbc.com
August 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A bad time for Carney to be barred from having influence over the Bank of Canada. Who else remembers when he wanted to stabilize ngdp? www.bbc.com/news/busines...
Some form of digital services tax is the only one that makes sense to combat vendor lock-in, natural monopoly on tech knowledge. It's also a significant security issue that a foreign country can take control of all our computers and phones via a software update. Let's move away from that.
August 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Some form of digital services tax is the only one that makes sense to combat vendor lock-in, natural monopoly on tech knowledge. It's also a significant security issue that a foreign country can take control of all our computers and phones via a software update. Let's move away from that.
Not for finance, but once did changepoint detection based on my limited knowledge of tuning bayesian hyperparameter priors and minimizing KL divergence. Worked better than expected, changepoints where you'd intuitively put them. Don't know how predictive either. It be fun to try more complex models.
August 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Not for finance, but once did changepoint detection based on my limited knowledge of tuning bayesian hyperparameter priors and minimizing KL divergence. Worked better than expected, changepoints where you'd intuitively put them. Don't know how predictive either. It be fun to try more complex models.
Ngl I feel like I won the lottery on this one. 2020 mortgage was 5y fixed 1.74%. The bank is pretty much paying me to live here. House has almost doubled in value from when I bought 10y ago.
August 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Ngl I feel like I won the lottery on this one. 2020 mortgage was 5y fixed 1.74%. The bank is pretty much paying me to live here. House has almost doubled in value from when I bought 10y ago.
As someone in Moncton in a neighborhood close to the fires, I've been using this map to track fire progression:
www.arcgis.com/apps/mapview...
Enable Time plus configure the time slider to 12 hour blocks to see the progression. Also look at windy.com to see where the wind will push the fire next.
www.arcgis.com/apps/mapview...
Enable Time plus configure the time slider to 12 hour blocks to see the progression. Also look at windy.com to see where the wind will push the fire next.
August 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
As someone in Moncton in a neighborhood close to the fires, I've been using this map to track fire progression:
www.arcgis.com/apps/mapview...
Enable Time plus configure the time slider to 12 hour blocks to see the progression. Also look at windy.com to see where the wind will push the fire next.
www.arcgis.com/apps/mapview...
Enable Time plus configure the time slider to 12 hour blocks to see the progression. Also look at windy.com to see where the wind will push the fire next.
Tried to reproduce, I'm not sure if this is worse or better.
August 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Tried to reproduce, I'm not sure if this is worse or better.
The US cutting itself off from the rest of the world means opportunities for other countries to be the global hubs of tech, defense and finance. Lets not miss these opportunities.
August 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The US cutting itself off from the rest of the world means opportunities for other countries to be the global hubs of tech, defense and finance. Lets not miss these opportunities.
I've shied away from "o3-pro max" because if the cost but it's probably even better.
July 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I've shied away from "o3-pro max" because if the cost but it's probably even better.
The only model that seems to be able to handle "multiple files with a lot of context" in Cursor for me is O3 thinking. And it's only recently able to do it.
July 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The only model that seems to be able to handle "multiple files with a lot of context" in Cursor for me is O3 thinking. And it's only recently able to do it.
Worry pas until the AIs pass the Turing-Sagouine test.
June 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Worry pas until the AIs pass the Turing-Sagouine test.
This is digging deeper into some concepts from the code entropy post: benoitessiambre.com/entropy.html:
April 13, 2025 at 1:06 AM
This is digging deeper into some concepts from the code entropy post: benoitessiambre.com/entropy.html:
The US has had an unfair hold over the lucrative global hubs of tech, defense and finance. These hubs are now up for grabs since the US gov is pushing them away. I hope we jump on the opportunity to bootstrap these sectors in Canada. We can lead tech. GPUs are tariff free in Canada.
April 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The US has had an unfair hold over the lucrative global hubs of tech, defense and finance. These hubs are now up for grabs since the US gov is pushing them away. I hope we jump on the opportunity to bootstrap these sectors in Canada. We can lead tech. GPUs are tariff free in Canada.
Consider opening an office outside the US. The free world welcomes you!
April 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Consider opening an office outside the US. The free world welcomes you!
The silver lining for Canada is that, we might, with the push from the current US gov, attract more tech, science and high pay work while the US is focusing on getting the low cost manual labor done in the US. Data-centers built in Canada don't have to pay tariffs on GPUs. Let's get tech here!
April 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The silver lining for Canada is that, we might, with the push from the current US gov, attract more tech, science and high pay work while the US is focusing on getting the low cost manual labor done in the US. Data-centers built in Canada don't have to pay tariffs on GPUs. Let's get tech here!
For example, data-centers built outside the US don't have to pay tariffs on GPUs.
April 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
For example, data-centers built outside the US don't have to pay tariffs on GPUs.