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Guillaume Pitel

@pitzeglide.bsky.social
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Computer science & machine learning, Vélotaf & mobilités. CTO Babbar (Ibou.io search engine, yourtext.guru) Search engines, information retrieval, semantics, probabilistic data structures,...

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Observatoire des cyclistes accidentés de la route @accidentsvelo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🇨🇭 Les automobilistes disparaissent des titres sur les accidents avec des cyclistes www.24heures.ch/cyclistes-le...
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Un chercheur suisse décrypte la façon dont les médias protègent les automobilistes fautifs
Un chercheur de l’UNIL décrypte comment les titres de presse contribuent à normaliser la domination de la voiture.
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Vilain Syndicaliste @vilainsyndicaliste.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Le Nouveau patron de la Coordination Rurale appelle à "faire la peau" aux écologistes : *silence* Des député•es LFI menacé de mort : *silence* Manuel Bompard reçoit un colis piégé : *silence* Bardella reçoit un œuf : "OLALA LA VIOLENCE EN POLITIQUE C'EST INSUPPORTABLE !!!"
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Benjamin Sonntag @benjamin.sonntag.fr · 30/11/2025
Passer une bonne partie de son temps d'ingénieur et de son énergie électrique a servir les bots de ces IA, et à lutter contre leurs excès d'aspiration. Le coût ajouté a notre travail (énergie, serveurs et ingénierie) n'est pas compté dans leur bilan carbone, ni dans les conséquences sur la société
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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
A new heat engine driven by the temperature difference between Earth’s surface and outer space has been developed by Tristan Deppe and Jeremy Munday at the University of California Davis. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/qcho50Xz4M9
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Heat engine captures energy as Earth cools at night – Physics World
System can generate electricity when solar cells cannot
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
This is corporate manslaughter! Every new well that Shell sinks kills more people. Recent cutting-edge work by #climate scientists demonstrates how we can now attribute the deaths that will be caused from individual oil & gas projects... www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Shell ready to invest more in Italy if drilling permits unlocked
Shell is ready to invest more in Italy to boost hydrocarbon production, the head of the energy group's Italian unit said on Wednesday, urging the government to allow new drilling.
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Sabine Rouen Vélo @sabinerouenvelo.eurosky.social · 21/11/2025
Attention On nous annonce que ça glisse énormément ce matin Vigilance en particulier sur les ponts.
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Guillaume Pitel @pitzeglide.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I recently sat down with Julien Nioche @begemoth.bsky.social, the creator of StormCrawler, for a wide-ranging conversation about his journey and the future of tech. Those days, Julien has pivoted from crawling to something critical: Green Software and GreenOps.
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I think the US tech advantage is just extremely brittle, especially if US foreign policy remains this dumb
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Pierre Beyssac @pierreb.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Le projet NTP a besoin de dons ! Si votre ordinateur et vos services en ligne sont à l'heure exacte, c'est certainement grâce à NTP, qui n'a pas 36 implémentations (sujet trop pointu pour Microsoft). Littéralement tout système en réseau s'en sert. (via @bearstech.com) www.ntp.org/donate/
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Donate Today!
Donate to the NTP Project today. Every dollar helps!
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#ApresJ20 - Association Covid Long France @apresj20.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
🧵💥Nouvelle étude dans Cell Reports Medicine : des différences moléculaires expliquent pourquoi le #CovidLong touche plus durement les femmes, en particulier celles qui développent une Encéphalomyélite Myalgique #EM
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
"The FTC found that data broker Mobilewalla was collecting personal data—including precise location information—from RTB auctions without placing ads. Mobilewalla collected data on over a billion people, with an estimated 60% sourced directly from RTB auctions."
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/11/2025
I think, of all the slides in this report, this is the most important -- it's really worth examining closely. This illustrates why the triumph of electrotechnical is inevitable.
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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.site · 13/08/2025
Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
hannahshelley.neocities.org
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @zefede.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Incroyable hommage de l’ancienne ministre des Anciens combattants. On appréciera la double Bretagne, le casque allemand et la submersion (ou l’annexion ??) du sud de la France.
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@MIRALLESMP

«Ils sont restés parmi nous, vivants dans notre fidélité et dans notre souvenir» Maurice Genevoix, Ceux de 14
#11Novembre : rendons hommage aux héros de 14-18 et à tous ceux qui ont donné leur vie pour la France.
Que leur sacrifice nous unisse dans la paix et la mémoire. 
+ visuel fait par une IA avec une carte de France improbable + un soldat allemand
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
AI is already superhuman. So are libraries, cars, and calculators. Not a reason to abandon the strong history of science-led digital policy in the EU. Please sign if you have a PhD in or near AI. #digitalGovernance #AIEthics pads.c3w.at/form/#/2/for...
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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 07/11/2025
A report citing internal documents indicates Meta knowingly profited billions from scam ads. The company reportedly hesitated to remove high-value scam accounts, fearing a revenue drop that could impact its significant AI investments.
arstechnica.com
Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI
Meta goosed its revenue by targeting users likely to click on scam ads, docs show.
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Slangword Scott @slangwordscott.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Tweet from Ryan Moulton @moultano:  Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
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Isidore Poireau @isidorepoireau.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Coucou en tant que graphiste senior, plus personne ne m'embauche alors que je sais faire plein de choses. Par exemple, je peux te concevoir un logo (ou autre chose). On en parle ? [J'ai un statut légal pour ce faire] Le partage rend le monde plus doux
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Guillaume Pitel @pitzeglide.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
IBOU crawl update: almost 2 months in, 333M pages/day, 7.5B pages indexed (40B URLs known). Quick note for @radar.cloudflare.com (poke @dbelson.com ): love your radar, but would be great if you could add IbouBot to your bot list.
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 21/10/2025
> Black founders captured just 0.42% of the $69.9 billion in U.S. venture capital deployed in Q2 From 1.5% in 2020 to 0.4% -- Given these statistics, it's rational for me to deprioritize VCs and focus my energy on funding paths where I face fewer systemic barriers. ft. @dominicmadori.bsky.social
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Why Black Founders Are Facing an Uphill Battle in Tech ft. Dominic-Madori Davis
YouTube video by Techish Podcast
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Larkin Francis, PhD, MSW @mwfrancis.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Study after study shows that it's remarkably cheap and easy to solve the problems of homelessness and poverty with low-barrier supportive housing and universal basic income, but our own fear that someone, somewhere will get something they didn't "earn" keeps us looking for other (punitive) options.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Social media use begins global decline. For the first time, time spent on social media is falling worldwide. An analysis of 250,000 adults across 50 countries shows average daily use dropped nearly 10% since 2022, reversing a decade of growth. buff.ly/z7nfRnN #ShareGoodNewsToo
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School IB economics: Have we passed peak social media?
Demand, market failure
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com
economist.com
Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war
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Quai2Saône @qsaone.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Ah oui, l'écart est impressionnant pour les collisions cyclistes/piétons.
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 09/10/2025
2025 a connu le troisième mois de septembre le plus chaud jamais mesuré, selon l’observatoire européen Copernicus
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2025 a connu le troisième mois de septembre le plus chaud jamais mesuré, selon l’observatoire européen Copernicus
Des records de chaleur ont été frôlés le mois dernier, non loin de celui de septembre 2023 et du deuxième septembre le plus chaud en 2024.
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Denis Colombi @uneheuredepeine.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Une alerte de plus sur l’état gravissime d’une profession et surtout du plus grand des services publics www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti... Mais pourquoi en faire un enjeu politique hein ? Pourquoi en parler ?
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L’ampleur du mal-être des enseignants français confirmé par une enquête internationale
L’enquête Talis, menée par l’OCDE sur un échantillon de 280 000 enseignants et publiée mardi, est la plus grande étude consacrée à la profession. Les résultats de l’édition 2024 de ce bilan quinquenna...
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Edwy Plenel @edwyplenel.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Sans nous, vous ne l'auriez pas su. Sans vous, nous n'aurions pas pu. Mediapart vous invité à une projection spéciale de notre film sur l'affaire Sarkozy-Kadhafi. Toutes les précisions ici (réservation obligatoire) 👉 blogs.mediapart.fr/les-rendez-v...
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Pa Normandin @panormandin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Tsé le gros rhume/grippe que tout le monde a en ce moment? Désolé d'être plate, mais c'est la COVID.
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 24/09/2025
Genuinely hate living in the era of “bigot is a 6-7 figure job”
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Florent Giry @florentgiry.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Les perturbations dans les transports en commun liés à la grève de demain sont l'occasion d'essayer de faire votre trajet domicile/travail à vélo, s'il n'est pas trop long. Les conseils et rappels de sécurité : www.paris.fr/pages/mouvem...
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Mouvement social du 18 septembre : les perturbations attendues dans les transports
La journée du 18 septembre s’annonce très compliquée dans les transports de la capitale, alors que les organisations syndicales ont appelé à faire la grève et à manifester un peu partout en France. La...
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Slower speeds save lives: "...there were 2,638 people injured, including deaths, on low-speed roads in the most recent 18 months, compared with 3,520 injuries between April 2022 and September 2023, a reduction of 25%."
bbc.com
Nearly 900 fewer people injured since 20mph introduction in Wales
Figures show a 25% reduction in the number of injuries on Wales' roads in the past 18 months.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/09/2025
Another family torn apart: “I tried to explain to the officer that he had an active case going on. He didn’t care. He didn’t care. And one of the ICE agents was laughing, smiling, giggling, thinking that it’s funny, you know?” www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/g...
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‘Give him a chance': ICE detains San Diego man amid effort to vacate decades-old conviction
ICE agents detained a San Diego man at his annual check-in on Wednesday, acting on a decades-old deportation order, leaving his wife begging for mercy as he awaits a hearing to try and vacate a convic...
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 12/09/2025
it’s true, the last two Qwens have been beautiful works of art, until you talk to them. gpt-oss same, even GPT-5 to some extent specifically this is referring to model architecture. cool new optimizers (K2) don’t seem to do it
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deeply disappointing pattern: the fancier the model, the higher its efficiency, the worse the personality. Qwen3-next is maybe smarter than 30B-3AB but even more insufferably slopped.
GPT-OSS is a dead robot. It's not just benchmaxxing, something more is going on here I think.
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Guillaume Pitel @pitzeglide.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Hi @radar.cloudflare.com I have a question/request for you. At Babbar (my company) we have launched a new crawler, this time for our new project which is a Web Search Engine. Another User Agent, another IPv4 Block. We have started crawling one month ago, approximately 500 million pages/day.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I tracked down source of a TikTok i saw about horrific car pick up lane in a Tennessee school district. And it is true. Parents arriving by noon to wait in line for hours, doordashing food as they wait, etc. www.wbir.com/article/traf...
wbir.com
Traffic near Loudon County schools stirs frustration, raises safety concerns with few immediate fixes
For years, school drop off and pickup lines at Eaton Elementary and North Middle School have frustrated drivers, backing up traffic on two highways.
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Raphaël SurcouF 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇲🇦🇵🇸 @surcouf.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
En Italie aussi, ils concourent dans les infrastructures cyclables ubuesques 🤪
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Brice Perrin @briceperrin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
En région parisienne, les flux importants d'usagers à vélo ne sont plus réservés à la capitale. Ici, en proche banlieue, la coulée verte offre une infrastructure sécurisée et agréable qui favorise ce mode pour les trajets quotidiens.
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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 21/03/2025
Always. Every time. Some idiot will pop up with "I guess you hate poor people then!" But then you check their feed and they are far from poor.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
if you think this can't happen here, think again. truthout.org/articles/hun...
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Hungary Bans LGBTQ Pride Events, Approves Facial Recognition to Track Attendees
Thousands protested the ban outside Hungary’s parliament, blocking traffic and defying police orders to disperse.
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Michael Livingston @michaellivingston.com · 20/03/2025
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions. Authors, search your name here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
theatlantic.com
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20/03/2025
Meta considered licensing books to train AI—but opted instead to pirate LibGen, a database that currently contains more than 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers, Alex Reisner writes.
theatlantic.com
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
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Aymeric Cotard @aymericcotard.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
De 150 à 2100 cyclistes par jour : l'aménagement du carrefour Pompadour a nettement amélioré les conditions de déplacement à vélo dans le Val-de-Marne ! ➡️ il faut désormais rendre plus sûres les axes le reliant pour que les Val-de-marnais·es prennent massivement leurs vélos !
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Comité d'évaluation du carrefour Pompadour
La transformation du carrefour Pompadour reste un sujet sensible. Mais est-ce vraiment à cause de l'aménagement cyclable ?
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Charles de Lacombe @charles.de-lacom.be · 23/02/2025
Le 15 octobre, Paul a été écrasé, à l’arrêt et sur une piste cyclable, par le conducteur d’un SUV. Il est mort. Les médias français en ont parlé pendant quelques jours, et puis… plus rien. Cet article de la BBC est le premier que je lis à ce sujet depuis des mois.
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Paris: Paul Varry dreamed of a cycling revolution. Then an SUV crushed him
Paul Varry's death has triggered a debate in Paris over the dramatic expansion of cycle infrastructure.
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Pierre Arlais @pierrearlais.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Guillaume Pitel @pitzeglide.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Deep dive into Babbar's crawl policy central.yourtext.guru/deep-dive-in... : in this article I explain how we maintain a target crawl rate while prioritizing some websites/URLs, all while trying to be gentle with web servers. I explain the metrics and indicators used to boost/unboost pages.
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Deep dive into the architecture of the Babbar Crawler: The Crawl Policy
At Babbar, we try to crawl the web like a search engine. Of course, we don't have the same computing resources or bandwidth as Google, Bing or other
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Dr. Fred J. Calef III @mapperwocky.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
For anyone who’s written a scientific paper, this makes absolutely no sense unless your goal is to censor science.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.
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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Many still believe in overfitting. Here’s a post trying to pin down what they mean and reach some common ground. www.argmin.net/p/flavors-of...
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Flavors of overfitting
Contextual overfitting and the Soviet Tank Problem
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René Cotton @rene-cotton.fr · 29/01/2025
Le bashing Français en IA me fatigue 🫠 Lucie n’est pas l’alpha et l’oméga de nos capacités dans l'intelligence artificielle 🙅 Tout le monde a oublié qu'en France, nous avons entre autres : - Mistral AI - Kyutai - Photoroom - H - LightOn - … On a de quoi être fiers, bordel ! 🐓
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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
“In 150 characters or less” by @nikitagill.bsky.social
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