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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

J'ai synthétisé les 560 pages de la Commission Gallant sur la transformation numérique de la SAAQ et l'ai comparé avec 7 autres projets similaires effectués à l'extérieur du Québec : open.substack.com/pub/vtherrie...

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Les fiascos informatiques de la SAAQ étaient évitables

Quand bien même que ça coûterait 50 M$, 100 M$, 200 M$ de plus...

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Got curious about why exoplanet positions make up that weird shape so I made this youtu.be/yarWar-8p8A?...

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Why the Exoplanet Map Looks Like This

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Do they actually believe their note-taking apps are gonna save them from the permanent underclass or

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Intellectual property is the water we are swimming in. It's so ingrained in how businesses operate and how we express ourselves that it's hard to imagine alternatives and foresee how it could change in the future. That's what I tried to do. youtu.be/yDlKxVjzYvU

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To Own Ideas

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

"Archaeologists discovered that people have known about popcorn for millennia [...] Between 2007 and 2011, evidence as early as 4,700 BCE for popping corn were discovered as macrofossil cobs" (yes I read the Wikipedia page on popcorn while eating popcorn) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn...

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Popcorn - Wikipedia

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Talking about wildfire predictions with numerical simulations and machine learning models. What I found the most interesting during my research is how ecosystems have adapted to fire and how indigenous communities developed controlled burns to modify their environment. youtu.be/3mawXsPqdbs

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Wildfires and the Limits of Computers

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I know I'm basic but cooling off in a lake after playing beach volleyball is a 10 / 10 experience

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I knew that nitroplasts could fix nitrogen but I somehow didn't know about lightning, this is really cool

An excerpt from the Wikipedia page "Nitrogen fixation". The paragraph is titled "Lightning". It goes: "Nitrogen can be fixed by lightning converting nitrogen gas (N2) and oxygen gas (O2) in the atmosphere into NOx (nitrogen oxides). The N2 molecule is highly stable and nonreactive due to the triple bond between the nitrogen atoms. Lightning produces enough energy and heat to break this bond allowing nitrogen atoms to react with oxygen, forming NOx. These compounds cannot be used by plants, but as this molecule cools, it reacts with oxygen to form NO2, which in turn reacts with water to produce HNO2 (nitrous acid) or HNO3 (nitric acid). When these acids seep into the soil, they make NO3− (nitrate), which is of use to plants."

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I have found a new Wikipedia page to fuel my optimism: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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List of open-source hardware projects - Wikipedia

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I wanna talk about copyright. I got comments in my video about monopolization in the GPU market pointing out that large companies weaponize patents to get rid of competitors. And with AI taking space in creative careers, it seems like copyright laws should be updated or dropped. A few thoughts 🧵

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

This is the sequel to the video I made in March about how complicated GPU programming can get. Here, I tried to figure out WHY it is so inconvenient and how it can evolve in the future. youtu.be/oaOxMdKlJTc

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Why GPU Programming Is Chaotic

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

They've been selling assistants since the IBM PC! With just one keystroke, you could open a calculator, a notepad, and even a calendar! archive.org/details/byte...

The vintage "Byte" magazine with an advertisement that displays:

"Whenever you're using your computer . . . from start to finish of your session . . . Sidekick™ will be there ready to serve. And it's as lightning-fast and compact as only Borland knows how to make it. Always just a keytroke away... Introductory Offer $49.95"

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Je comprends de moins en moins la logique d'augmenter les salaire au public coûte que coûte et d'espérer de meilleurs résultats, Biron gagne plus que des ministres élus et imputables mais elle sert juste à rendre le système moins transparent theconversation.com/des-salaires...

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Des salaires toujours plus hauts, une reddition inexistante. Le dilemme de la gouvernance à Santé Québec

Comment évaluer la performance des dirigeants publics ? À l’heure où les salaires s’alignent sur le privé, la logique des résultats doit suivre le même chemin.

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Je suis tombé sur le budget participatif de l'Île-de-France (www.iledefrance.fr/participer-l...) qui permet centralise des propositions citoyennes pour des projets écologiques. Ça me semble beaucoup plus efficace que des projets pilotes à la carte.

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Budget participatif écologique

Vous souhaitez créer un projet écologique et solidaire ? Soumettez vos idées aux votes des Franciliens pour bénéficier d’une aide financière.

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

J'ai entendu une chanson de France Gall à la pharmacie alors je réécoute toute sa discographie

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

J'ai commencé à écouter la commission Gallant pendant que je fais le ménage à la place de mettre de la musique www.cesis.gouv.qc.ca/audiences-pu...

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Enregistrement des audiences - CESIS

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

YouTube me laisse même pas ajouter de pistes audio dans d'autres langues MAIS il a essayé de me générer du doublage automatique (ça a planté, quel système incroyable). Je vais ajouter la piste en français quand ils vont rendre la fonctionnalité disponible pour ma chaîne.

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

My new video explains my various grievances about the ambient AI discourse. We often run in loops discussing the same things ("will we lose jobs", "when will AGI happen"), I try to avoid speculations to focus to current and real problems. youtu.be/5GjeJ8kQST4

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AI Singularity Is A Smokescreen

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Nature made a list of the 10 most cited paper of the 21st century. 4 papers are in machine learning, 3 are in health sciences / biology, 2 are in psychology, and 1 is in chemistry (more precisely, a crystallography computer program). 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Exclusive: the most-cited papers of the twenty-first century

A Nature analysis reveals the 25 highest-cited papers published this century and explores why they are breaking records.

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

HOW DO YOU NAME THAT THING DADDY LONGLEGS One was taking a stroll across the wall so I decided to translate it, English ended up having the worse (best?) name

Screenshot of the Wikipedia article "Opiliones" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones. Text: "The Opiliones (formerly Phalangida) are an order of arachnids, colloquially known as harvestmen, harvesters, harvest spiders, or daddy longlegs (see § Etymology below). As of July 2024, over 6,650 species of harvestmen have been discovered worldwide,[1][2][3] although the total number of extant species may exceed 10,000.[4] The order Opiliones includes five suborders: Cyphophthalmi, Eupnoi, Dyspnoi, Laniatores, and Tetrophthalmi, which were named in 2014.[5]

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

NEW DWARF PLANET ALERT - 2017 OF201 is 700 km wide (smaller than Ceres, bigger than Vesta) and takes 25000 years to orbit the Sun. Its discoverers say that makes "planet X" even less likely to exist (other astronomers disagree). Article not peer-reviewed yet skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

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Another Dwarf Planet in Our Solar System?

A newly discovered object in the outer solar system, 2017 OF201, is the largest found in more than a decade.

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I had to use VBA for the first time in my life to modify an Exc*l sheet and it made me feel like I had been shot in the legs

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Un rapport de HEC Montréal rapporte "un lien négatif robuste [...] au Québec entre la rémunération et l’offre de services médicaux" qui semble se généraliser aux autres provinces. J'espère juste que le rapport ne servira pas à alimenter la démagogie envers les médecins cjp.hec.ca/wp-content/u...

Figure 30 du rapport "Évolution récente de l’offre de services médicaux et de la rémunération des médecins au Québec" publié en mai 2025 par Benatia et al. La figure indique : "Relation entre la croissance de la rémunération par ETP et la réduction de l'intensité de travail (ETP par médecin) 2014-2022" (ETP = équivalent temps plein). Les provinces canadiennes et le Québec observent une diminution de l'intensité du travail des médecins quand leur rémunération augmente.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

1. As almost every research shows, young men have NOT turned to the right — compared to older men. In fact, they moved slightly to the left compared to older men. Young WOMEN have turned to the left compared to older women. Recent graph on Trump approval provides good example.

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

My favorite bug is the 2015 Dreamliner overflow. If you don't power cycle the airplane within 248 days (2^31 centiseconds), the electrical power straight up shuts down. Apparently it has been fixed by now. www.i-programmer.info/news/149-sec...

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Reboot Your Dreamliner Every 248 Days To Avoid Integer Overflow

Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets...

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

What fascinates me the most about this is how presumably competent CEOs jump into AI hype so easily. And they are the ones running the economy! Still, 25 % is pretty high in my eyes. I wonder how it compares to other technologies.

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I've just been accepted to volunteer at a Roller Derby competition, I'm so excited!

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Trying to demystify the cache in this video. Cache-oblivious matrix multiplication is not the only time that knowing the workings of the cache is useful, it also comes in handy when optimizing other algorithms and avoiding bugs. youtu.be/ZrnsE9tyR5s

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The Blessings and Curses of Cache Optimization

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

COCONUT CRAB INFODUMP: they (1) live up to 60 years, (2) are among the few animals that can crack coconuts open, (3) are the largest terrestrial invertebrate - 4.1 kg / 91 cm, (4) can drown in water, (5) like to fall off trees instead of climbing them down en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut...

Two coconut crabs each climbing a tree. The crab on the left is red, brown, and beige while the one on the right is blue, black, and white. They look so big, I just want to hug them! Image from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Birgus_latro_(Bora-Bora).jpg

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Tried Julia for the first time today! I wanted to run computations on GPU and so I used AcceleratedKernels.jl, which supports multiple backends. Reminded me of Triton - a high-level GPU interface for a high-level language. I put the code in my GPU repository: github.com/Vincent-Ther...

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

My new video presents the main steps of a whole-genome sequencing project and explains how DNA analysis programs work. My favorite part is the discussion around functional / nonfunctional ("junk") DNA toward the end. youtu.be/UxSmYhRb9LE

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The Golden Age of Genomics

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Hadn't realized how mad people were at the IAU back then: 48th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2007. DECLARING PLUTO A PLANET AND DECLARING MARCH 13, 2007, "PLUTO PLANET DAY" AT THE LEGISLATURE. www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/07%...

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Memorial text for HJM054

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I'll use that whenever I see someone giving their own name to something

(From the Wikipedia article) Mihi itch or Mihisucht is the ambition to describe new species (or other taxa: subspecies, hybrids, genera, etc.) as a means to immortalize one's name. Mihi is the dative form of the Latin word ego, thus "mihi itch" means to satisfy one's egotistical impulses. The expression appeared in print as early as 1884.

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The Mario Kart trailer made me realize that I must listen to more harmonica music

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

BONNE FÊTE CÉLINE ✨ TOUT LE MONDE DIT QUE C'ÉTAIT DU LIPSYNC MAIS MON SENS CRITIQUE PREND UNE VOLÉE QUAND ON PARLE D'ELLE

Céline Dion en train de chanter sur la tour Eiffel à la cérémonie d'ouverture des jeux olympiques de 2024.

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Expectations for The Movie: 1. Link shorter than Zelda 2. Zoras played by live action actors in uncanny suits 3. NO MULTIVERSE SHENANIGAN 4. Wallmaster / dead hand jumpscare 5. Characters playing wind instruments 6. Link in the Gerudo outfit

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I know I'm late with the February talk around asteroid 2024 YR4, but I just read on the PLANETARY DEFENSE blog of the NASA that while the probability of impact with Earth is estimated at 0.004%, the probability of impact with the Moon is estimated at 1.7% in 2032 blogs.nasa.gov/planetarydef...

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Planetary Defense

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Ruba Ghazal @rubaghazalqs.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Janette est une véritable pionnière du féminisme et de la culture québécoise. Grâce à son audace et à sa parole libre, elle a brisé d’innombrables tabous et ouvert la voie à des conversations essentielles que notre société n’osait pas aborder.

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I want to talk about how the periodic table is written in Chinese because I find it beautiful 🧵

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Friendly reminder that Julia Child worked as a top-secret researcher for the OSS during WW2. Other fun facts from her Wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Child

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Julia Child - Wikipedia

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I compared 7 GPU frameworks to pick the best one for a project, and I realized that GPU programming is really more complicated than it should be. Frameworks are either not portable, not convenient, or not suited to graphics / general-purpose applications. github.com/Vincent-Ther...

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GitHub - Vincent-Therrien/gpu-arena: Compare and test GPU programming frameworks

Compare and test GPU programming frameworks. Contribute to Vincent-Therrien/gpu-arena development by creating an account on GitHub.

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I'm not good enough to read Chinese novels yet, but I no longer find beginner-level texts challenging enough. Here are some websites I use to practice Chinese at an intermediate level 🧵

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