Louis van Proosdij

Entrepreneur, intrapreneur, new-tech/digital senior exec, digital, strategy, startup mentor, modest "Expert Generalist", dots connector

[Rémi Fauconnier @RemiFauconnier]

Pour faire le bridge en beauté avec la thématique Hérouville : ce Stayin’ Alive dont les Bee Gees enregistrèrent les voix dans l’escalier du château.
Et cette énorme reprise de Springsteen pour ouvrir le concert de Brisbane en 2014, auquel j’ai assisté.🤩

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

For a president of the United States to nonstop shitpost this kind of ass-vomit and dumbfuckery, the degree of derangement, jealousy, and insecurity has to be off the charts.

[a16z @a16z]

.@tylercowen on why AI creates more jobs than it destroys:

"One of the neatest properties of current AI models is they allow a small number of individuals working with AI to really do a lot more work than was possible previously."

"This will mean more companies, more projects, more nonprofits, just more ventures."

"One area is generally energy, electricity, the grid... It's completely screwed up. It will take twenty years, thirty years, forty years to fix... The AIs cannot do that on their own."

"The biomedical sector and medical trials, there will be many, many, many more ideas to test. AIs will help with the testing, but I don't think pure testing by simulation will be possible anytime soon."

"Simply care for the elderly. There will be robots, personal companions. We have this already. But the elderly also will want human care. It wouldn't surprise me if in the future, fifteen, twenty percent of all jobs were elderly care."

"Luis Garicano had an excellent online essay. He referred to what he called 'messy jobs': jobs where it's hard to explain exactly what the job is, but on a given day you're doing eleven different things, and it requires coordination and figuring out what you ought to do next and getting other people to help you... There's a real future in messy jobs."

Tyler Cowen with @dataWyatt

[François Camé @FrancoisCame]

Une camarade de 3eme vient d'expliquer à l'un de mes jumeaux que "mettre un point à la fin d'un texto, c'est froid et distant"...

Un ami lituanien me dit, de son côté, que les jeunes lui déconseillent fortement de mettre dans ses messages une majuscule en début de phrase, voire de ponctuer son texte. Car : "Quelqu'un qui écrit avec une syntaxe et une ponctuation soignées peut être perçu comme condescendant..."

Et quand j'interroge Grok, pour savoir si c'est une maladie très répandue, cette bestiole m'explique froidement :

- "Écrire tout en minuscules est devenu un marqueur stylistique de relâchement assumé. Cela signale : je ne fais pas d'effort rhétorique, je parle comme je pense ."
Bref, cela signale que je suis cool et sincère...

Génial.
Nous avons donc, en quelques années, régressé de mille deux cents ans. Au moins.

-Au départ, les Grecs et les Romains écrivaient tout en majuscule, sans séparation entre les mots, sans point en fin de phrase. Ce qui rend leurs textes extrêmement pénibles à déchiffrer.
- Ce n'est qu'au IVe siècle après Jésus-Christ que les scribes commencent à inventer les lettres minuscules.
- Au VIIe siècle, les moines irlandais copiant des textes latins commencent à introduire systématiquement des espaces entre les mots.
- Au VIIIe siècle, Charlemagne, lui, instaure la majuscule en début de phrase, le reste étant en minuscules (ce qui permettait de placer plus de texte dans une seule page, donc d'économiser du parchemin, ce matériau étant extrêmement cher)
- Au XIIe siècle, les Universités inventent ensuite le paragraphe, qui permet de donner un peu de respiration à un texte.
- Et ce n'est qu'à la fin du XVe siècle que le génial Alde Manuce, imprimeur et humaniste vénitien, invente la virgule et le point-virgule dans ses éditions des grands textes antiques (c'est aussi lui qui crée l'italique : trop fort🙂).

Bref, du Ve av. J.-C. au XVe siècle ap. J.-C. : il a fallu 20 siècles pour rendre nos textes lisibles.

Mais aujourd'hui, des zoulous de la "Gen. Z" ont décidé que tout ceci était "froid et condescendant".

Le raisonnement est délicieux : les points en fin de phrase, la majuscule en début... font perdre un peu de temps, quand on pianote sur un écran.
Certes, cela rend les messages bien plus lisibles, pour celui à qui le message s'adresse; mais cela demande à celui qui le rédige un petit effort supplémentaire.
Et ça, c'est pas cool.

Résultat : si je refuse de faire un effort pour les autres, et que je les oblige à en faire un... je ne suis pas une grosse feignasse égocentrique.
Non : je manifeste, tout au contraire, combien je suis cool et sympa.

Question de génération, surement.
Ok boomer, tout ça, tout ça...

Mais j'avoue, pour ma part, que je trouve ce genre de philosophie un zest paradoxal.
Voire un peu agaçant.🙂

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Paul Graham @paulg]

This is an actual page on the White House web site. It reads like something written about a third world dictator. So embarrassing. I have not seen any branch of the federal government sink this low in my lifetime.

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

“The Vatican has replaced Silicon Valley as ground zero for disruptive thinking. The Catholic church … is becoming a beacon of light in a very dark world…. The pope has become a reassuring – and all too rare – voice of moral clarity.” https://t.co/Y85YTArice

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

This is how we think about @linear too

It is the shared system where product work, teams and its context live, so humans and agents can coordinate around the same knowledge.

The Linear workflow runs from intake and triage through planning, building, code review, and release.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If big companies can't make a net return on their LLM token costs, that doesn't mean it's impossible to. In fact this is exactly what you'd expect to happen with a new technology. Incumbents can't use it well, and are replaced by upstarts who can.

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

Zelensky's letter is a feeler for a coup against Putin among the siloviki. Budanov on standby.
"[You] will have to fight much harder for your own existence — not Russia’s, but your own... It is a fact of Russian history that you know well: when Russia grows tired, change comes."

[Paul Graham @paulg]

There's a startup in the current YC batch that built an MRI machine in 101 days.

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

🚨 The House just passed the Ukraine Support Act by a vote of 226-195 to provide military aid to Ukraine and impose tough sanctions on Russia.

[a16z @a16z]

World Labs CEO Dr. Fei-Fei Li: "The world is not made of words."

"Language models have given machines an extraordinary command of concepts, vocabulary, and reasoning, but the physical world, virtual or real, runs on a different substrate."

"Where language models learn the statistical structure of text, world models learn the statistical structure of space and time: how light falls on a surface, how a garden looks from an angle no camera has captured, how objects respond to force and follow the laws of physics."

"Language gave machines a way to talk about that world. World models are how machines will finally come to understand, imagine, reason and interact with it."

Full piece: https://t.co/C9qOJg5wuc

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

🚨 The House just voted 218-204 to move forward on the discharge petition to provide military aid to Ukraine and impose tough sanctions on Russia. The House will vote on final passage tomorrow. This is our Churchill moment and we must pass the test.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

More of CNN's false equivalence language. Ukraine is not targeting St. Petersburg, but striking military installations, Russian warships, and oil refineries. It's the Russian terror state that strikes cities and targets civilians. https://t.co/Cy7DgqtkuT

[Supersocks @iamsupersocks]

Google sort Gemma 4 12B.

Le signal intéressant n’est pas juste “encore un nouveau modèle open”.

C’est qu’on commence à voir des modèles multimodaux capables tourner sur des machines de monsieur tout le monde.

Jusqu’ici, dès que tu voulais du local vraiment utile, il fallait vite monter sur de grosses configs : 27B, 32B, 70B, beaucoup de VRAM, et pas mal de patience pour avoir un débit correct. Accessible mais pas tant que ça.

Là, Google annonce un modèle 12B multimodal, utilisable avec 16 GB de VRAM ou de mémoire unifiée, compatible llama.cpp, MLX, LM Studio, vLLM, SGLang.

Ça ne veut pas dire que tout le monde va faire tourner un frontier model dans son salon demain matin.

Mais ça change le seuil d’entrée.

Pour une machine correcte, ça ouvre la voie à des workflows locaux vraiment intéressants : vision, agents personnels, analyse de documents, automatisations privées, assistants qui tournent sans envoyer toute la donnée dans le cloud.

Et pour ceux qui ont déjà de grosses bécanes, le sujet devient encore plus intéressant : tu peux imaginer plusieurs workers locaux, spécialisés, orchestrés par un modèle plus fort ou un agent central sous perfusion frontier.

Le local n’est plus juste un délire de hobbyiste.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

No NATO country has ever attacked Russia or the USSR, and never will.

Ukraine in NATO is a credible security guarantee for Russia.

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

"This is a world war. China stands behind Putin and wants it to continue because it drains the West, splits America and Europe, and weakens Russia.
Iran and the terrorist networks it funds are also part of the same global picture"

- Garry Kasparov

[Rafik Smati @RafikSmati]

Félicitations à la physicienne Maud Vinet, fondatrice de la pépite française du quantique Quobly, qui vient de lever 115 millions d'euros pour construire des ordinateurs quantiques français.

Le sujet devrait faire la une. Il passera probablement entre deux polémiques sans importance.

Pourtant, c'est exactement ça, la France qui prépare l'avenir : des chercheurs qui innovent, des entrepreneurs qui osent, des investisseurs qui prennent des risques sur le long terme.

La prospérité de demain ne naîtra pas d'une commission supplémentaire, d'une nouvelle taxe ou d'une norme de plus. Elle naîtra de nos ingénieurs et de nos bâtisseurs.

Finançons davantage nos génies. Et par-dessus tout, cessons d'engraisser le Léviathan.