Christian Jauvin

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This article has been posted to my Substack also.

When I was studying as a CS undergrad in 1998 at the University of Montreal, every student had a Linux account with a special folder in their $HOME where you could put stuff which would be instantly served on the web.

For some weird reason, I always had some kind of slight “mental hesitation” with the meaning of data encoding versus decoding.

Most often when we think about the difficulties associated with the translation of a language, we are thinking in one direction: you are learning a new language, and it is difficult to translate your own language and thoughts into this new one.

J’expliquais récemment à un ami que ChatGPT, dans son essence, est « juste » un modèle de prédiction du mot suivant, celui qui vient après une suite d’autres mots.

I was explaining to a friend recently that ChatGPT, to its core, is “just” a model to predict the next word, the one coming after a bunch of other words.

With VS Code I am writing a lot of Markdown text these days (for instance this Hugo blog) and I’m using two extensions to help with my word processing needs: Code Spell Checker, which has a bunch of dictionaries for many languages (I use French).

Imagine a situation where a majority effectively has a quiet veto over a change.

Or.. the era of turbocharged goalpost moving The ARC benchmark was designed by François Chollet to serve one goal : be sufficiently difficult, demanding so that it cannot be “hacked” by some “cheating” AI techniques, LLM or whatever.

Some models of reality are bolder than others Digital physics is the body of mathematical and philosophical work treating the universe and the way it works as a giant digital computer.

Computer Science as a term should simply capitulate and give way to AI In French the term “informatique” feels slightly better, as a label to describe the field, than “Computer Science” feels in English.

The original idea of AI, that we got mostly through science-fiction, and also a little from the philosophy of mind and logic, imagined an entity that would implement idealized and mechanical notions of thoughts, reasoning and logic.

Suppose you’re like me, in the middle of editing a Word document, and you realize that you’re fed up with Word.

When I’m doing freelance software development projects and I’m asked how much time things will take, it’s always very hard to answer.

Currently in my car I have the “check engine” light being on, but it’s ok, because I know what is the problem, my mechanic told me that it’s <something>, and that even though it’s not ideal, it can wait while he finds the part to repair it (apparently it’s

I’ve been learning Persian (Farsi) for a while now, and I’m using a bunch of tools for it.

I recently spent a lot of time trying to come up with an interactive data grid widget in Streamlit.

Imagine an alternate history in which AI, in the sense of our current LLMs, had come first.

There’s a cottage industry of AI gurus who extol the virtues of being open about the advent of AI in the enterprise.

I was recently thinking about a dimension of intelligence and the mind that might have played a role in my school results of the past, and also my taste for computer programming.

3blue1brown recently felt the need to add a supplementary video to its Grover’s algorithm introduction.

I have a friend who wanted to have a quick idea about whether he should use classes and objects for his project.