Simon

Tech Lead, Architect, Dev & Sec Ops, Gopher. Stack: whatever is necessary and does not suck. Programming is creating while writing!

[Simon @simcaplette]

Machine learning will make life look like photographs

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@thierrynilles Indeed. But it did not so far. So let’s escalate.

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Let the flat earthers board a plane that does not have or take into account any geodesic based navigation systems.

[Werner Vogels @Werner]

in one tweet? 1) if you want to be a VP of Engineering focus on teams and people and how to make them succesfull 2) wanna be a CTO? Simplify. Focus on the business, what is the simplest, most robust Tech/Ops that makes the business succeed.

[Simon @simcaplette]

Media is a virtual world made of real people.

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Le chien pense: "Les hommes me nourrissent, ils doivent être des dieux.”

Le chat pense : "Les hommes me nourrissent, je dois être leur dieu.”

Encyclopédie du Savoir Relatif et Absolu - Bernard Werber

[Simon @simcaplette]

Les êtres sont des cordes vibrantes existentielles toujours en recherche d’harmoniques, périodiquement jetées les unes contre les autres et que trop rarement merveilleusement en résonance.

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The brain is a social organ since it cannot grow or survive healthily without other brains.

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“Les députés, je les ai tous achetés” - Marcel Dassault

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“The media alone is simply not large enough to process what we need to understand about the institutions that make up our society” - Julian Assange

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Next time you go to the bank to make a deposit or that your salary is wired to your account remember it is not a deposit! In financial terms it is called a loan :)

[Simon @simcaplette]

Artificial Intelligence goals will be (for a long time) set by humans. Damages will come from the numerous paths taken by AI to reach these goals. Humans will not have the power to foresee all the paths, hence only another AI will be able to monitor an AI for deviant behavior.

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The issue with the so called French Tech/French Exception is that it is a posture (static) rather than a strategy (dynamic)

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Wondering how chaos intervenes in evolution and life itself? Remember that in chaos minor asymmetrical or small differences results in large trees of emerging possibilities. Now think of the classic evolutionary process which is the mutation. There you have it!

[Simon @simcaplette]

Do you some good and listen to Jordan B. Peterson. Here would be a very recent, quality and well conducted discussion where you can discover his main thesis/arguments and thoughts. Also funny since Scandinavians don’t know what hits them! https://t.co/BQVGUx1Ydj

[Simon @simcaplette]

Our understanding of the world is related to the willingness/ effort we put to go beyond pushed, easily accessible, information/news. A lot of conversation are stale since we do not do the effort, . i.e you should not be able to have an opinion about every topic all the time.

[Simon @simcaplette]

“Un parti politique est une machine à fabriquer de la passion collective; une organisation construite de manière à exercer une pression collective sur la pensée de chacun de ses membres. Son unique fin est sa propre croissance, et cela sans aucune limite.” - Simone Weil, 1940.

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This should keep my reading busy for a few months ...

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Life and living is always at the frontier between order and chaos. Order allows stability, validation and continuity. Chaos allows creation, renewal, adaptability and propagation. Both permits survival.

[Simon @simcaplette]

First mistake we often do when trying to understand the concept of power is to think that it only manifests itself and gets exercised hierarchically and/or vertically.