We hear a lot about "machine learning", "artificial intelligence", and are flooded with tools, products, pseudo-arts completely machined made. These words are, effectively, a language fraud. What stands before us performs no learning, no intelligence, but a mimicry of automated language, which, by pure bruteforce, produces the illusions that it does something. It combinates millions or billions of... » Continue Reading
Yesterday I was at a meeting in Paris about the secular laws. Here was a fifty-ish years old guy, well dressed and with a grey beard perfectly cut, who defended sharply the separation of State and churches. He argued that all cultures are not separate identities, but a complex gradient, or flux, of hybridations and mixing elements. He said, and that is very true, that what we call French culture i... » Continue Reading
I want you to know, dear reader, that you are great. You're an incredible and ressourceful person and I know you'll get out of this in one piece and happy. We all have hardships in life, it's part of the deal. Sometimes little hills feel like mountains, sometimes we doubt, we just want to stop climbing. I do believe in you. You deserve to feel alright, to feel good. You can rest if you want, but I... » Continue Reading