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Mathilde Larrère @mathildelarrere.bsky.social · 8h

mais tellement!!!!!

David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 40m

In your opinion, how much of the rest was really written by JRR and how much was in fact written by Christopher despite him claiming minimal intervention to avoid the pitchforks? Like from just the outline to the full color painting. (sorry if this starts an unintended nuclear war)

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Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.xyz · 1h

TCS in a nutshell? 🙊

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 2h

People care about journal names now?

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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 2h

Colin is right. OpenAI is staffed by a bunch of mathematicians I respect, and yet the company acts in the worst possible way at all times. They should be shamed and roasted, even if some of their results turn out to be somewhat correct, not plagiarized, and not incorrectly autoformalized.

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 2h

It's always been the case that it depends on the programming language: Machine Learning is written in python and AI is written in PowerPoint.

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 5h

Ping @mu.social because that's also something they should market

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 5h

Yes but ALSO Bluesky has done a sad job of selling itself and the atmosphere. "YOU CONTROL THE ALGORITHM" should be blasted everywhere.

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 8h

What a weird acknowledgment. I've seen companies doing that in the past, but that's a first for a theoretical CS paper by academics. I don't think there is any opinion in that paper. Is it because of Anthropic? (paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.07977 lowers the complexity of 3SUM and related problems)

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 9h

The dog is amazing. My brain stopped working for a second.

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Akiyoshi Kitaoka @akiyoshikitaoka.bsky.social · 9h

杉原先生の作品

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Véro @1vero2.bsky.social · 13h

Je pensais aux violences policières hier, et me disais que c'est comme les violences sexuelles dans l'Eglise : non ce n'est pas systématique, oui c'est systémique. Et je pense que pour beaucoup c'est impossible à envisager.

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 13h

Recommended reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niourk

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Niourk - Wikipedia

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 13h

Mais même en supposant l'absence de pénurie (soit au niveau du bac, soit au niveau des places), il y a un moment où il faut bien faire l'appariement entre candidats et places.

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 13h

J'ai jamais compris ce que les gens qui veulent la suppression de parcoursup veulent à la place. Que chaque établissement ait sa propre plateforme (bonjour le coût...) qu'il faille aller regarder individuellement chaque matin ?

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 13h

You know what's "funny"? In 1000 years, there is a possibility that they'll talk about our time the same way as the bronze age collapse and the fall of the Roman empire. Change in climate and weather patterns leading to migration, pandemics, political turmoil, and all the interconnected consequences

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 13h

Tbh it's still super warm for the season

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Francois Jobard @francoisjobard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

104 jours de chaleur (maximale >= 25 °C) à Paris Montsouris en 2026. Un chiffre probablement définitif qui bat le record de 2018 (98 jours de chaleur). Dans un climat pas si ancien (standards des années 1990) le nombre annuel moyen de jours de chaleur était de 50. Graphe papusa forum @infoclimat.fr

Courbes cumulées des nombres de jours >=25 °C par année à Paris

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Rémi Flamary @rflamary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Congratulations to @soniamazelet.bsky.social for her young talent l'Oreal women in science prize!

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 21h

Genuinely LOLed

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 18h

in honor of margaret hamilton, i’m posting this iconic image of her standing next to the printed apollo flight software that she and her team developed that helped take humans to the moon. rest in peace to an incredible inspiration for women in the space industry.

Margaret Hamilton standing proudly next to a large stack of books as tall as her.

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tragicsystem (spooky edition) @birce.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Attendez, pourquoi « Mistral AI” et pas « Le Slop Français » ?

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Suave Morbida @maitre-poulard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Cette figure est assez ouf. On voit en haut les routes maritimes empruntées entre 2010 et 2019 sur la zone du détroit de Malacca (enregistrement des transpondeurs des navires) Au milieu, c'est la distribution de la foudre sur les mêmes années. On voit que la foudre suit les routes maritimes! 🧵1/4

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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Recurrent Looped Transformer Zhang et al. Combine context/history transformer with recurrence: have a causal encoder with a recurrent decoder. arxiv.org/abs/2610.07591

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

Yet. You don't know what's in the box... What's in the box??!

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots

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Vincent Heidelberg ↙️↙️↙️ @astrovicnet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

C'est 9 fois et demi la durée de l'emprisonnement de Sarko pour avoir négocié avec des terroristes pour financer sa campagne, et c'est 6 mois de plus que Marine Le Pen, qui a détourné 4 millions d'euros.

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NeurIPS Europe @neuripseurope.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We welcome all authors of accepted NeurIPS papers who chose the Paris venue. We are excited and working hard to make this a great event! Registrations for authors are not yet open but be reassured that 1 place is reserved for the presenter of each paper accepted to the main conf. WS authors: 1/2

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes! See you there, it's been a long time!

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Benjamin 🦦 @benjamintr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

« Yes. » The Guardian expliquant la situation avec zéro chill

Is the French education system blighted by social inequality?
Yes. A child born and schooled in a deprived neighbourhood in France has less chance of escaping their socioeconomic background than in most other developed nations, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

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minimaliste13 @minimaliste13.cpesr.fr · 06/10/2026

D'abord, ne jamais s'habituer aux mots "12 heures de garde à vue". Ensuite, ressentir un frisson d'horreur aux mots "48 heures de garde à vue". Enfin, lire cet article ou des mineurs racontent leurs tortures pendant 48 heures.

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« 48 heures d’enfer » : à leur sortie de garde à vue, des lycéens traumatisés

Plus de 2 000 personnes, très majoritairement des mineurs, ont été placées en garde à vue depuis lundi 28 septembre en marge du mouvement des lycéens. Plusieurs d’entre eux témoignent de conditions d…

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Klara Janouskova @klara-cz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A spotlight at NeurIPS is awesome and I am super proud of the guys for pulling this off! But only one of the authors being able to attend the conference because registrations sold out and there is no priority for other authors is a bit... anticlimactic, after so much effort from everyone involved.

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It appears that coding agents have been trained on too many SOTA chasing papers, because they latch onto tiny, meaningless improvements in metrics. That's what you get...

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Tom Aarsen @tomaarsen.com · 06/10/2026

🤗 Google Deepmind is back with EmbeddingGemma 2, which maps text (including code), images, video & audio into one shared 768-dimensional embedding space. 740M total parameters, 100+ languages, Apache 2.0 & Sentence Transformers support. Thread with highlights 🧵

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I came across this parody of a rumored upcoming press release by OpenAI: "OpenAI Releases the Final Ten Minutes of 500 Previously Unreleased Films, Ushering in a New Era of Movie Watching" : x.com/Endings500/s...

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Endings Fivehundred (@Endings500) on X

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 6th, 2026 OpenAI Releases the Final Ten Minutes of 500 Previously Unreleased Films, Ushering in a New Era of Movie Watching

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

But do you think that this is a different case than the training on copyrighted content? To me is. The model could be trained on whatever, as long as it doesn't produce counterfeit outputs, it's fine. Only the output matters.

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

So in your view it's mostly that "the law" doesn't have the same degree of reality as the laws of the universe. This I can definitely agree. I often quote Giraudoux's excellent jab at it ("Mon cher Busiris, nous savons tous ici que le droit est la plus puissante des écoles de l'imagination.")

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

This should be very easy to challenge: if you're selling something that bears my name but isn't from me, it's clear counterfeit. The farce is really when courts will not grant plaintiffs the millions of $$$ they should get, while they regularly do it when it's Disney or any other IP based company.

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Abby Stylianou @astylianou.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Computer Vision for Earth Observation (CV4EO) workshop is back at @wacvconference.bsky.social this coming January in Orlando! ⏰ Paper Deadline (full & short): Oct 14, 2026 📬 Submit via OpenReview: openreview.net/group?id=the... 🔗 Learn more: geoai.ornl.gov/cv4eo-wacv/

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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Procedural Core: A Compact Recurrent Initialization for Vision Transformers By @damienteney.bsky.social 's group Idea: train a ViT with parameters tied over layers (="recurrent ViT") on abstract procedurally data. Then initialise models of ANY arch (!) with these weights. arxiv.org/abs/2609.37631

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026

From Physics Today (physicsworld.com/a/francis-ha...): ‘When asked what he will do for the rest of today, Halzen replied “I’m working on a proposal. I hope this prize will help get it approved.”’

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

Today is a good day to be reminded of the following poem by Kurt Tucholsky: de.wikisource.org/wiki/Ideal_u... Sorry it's only in German and automated translation don't do it entirely justice.

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Ideal und Wirklichkeit – Wikisource

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