Notices by Krazy Krêpe (krazykitty@mamot.fr)

@skinnylatte "Your body passes through a ring of underwater sensors, each acting like a dolphin, using its echolocation." ACTING LIKE A DOLPHIN.

@skinnylatte And it continues!

"As you descend you pass through a ring made of half a million tiny squares each the size of a fine grain of sand, and each capable of acting as both a tiny speaker and a tiny microphone.

Each square creates ultrasonic waves and records the ripples back at millions of times per second. Together they act as both a choir and an audience - producing terabytes of data each second."

TOGETHER THEY ACT AS BOTH A CHOIR AND AN AUDIENCE

@skinnylatte Bathed in golden light, the scanner acts like a dolphin that acts like a choir and an audience.

Are these people for real?

@skinnylatte OMG it's a SPA.

You go to a fucking SPA and they echograph your whole body and they give you... "a detailed body composition map" and nothing more because for anything more they need FDA approval (which they'll seek as they go along).

@skinnylatte And then in 5 years they'll have 50,000 such scanners all over the world and "if we can catch things early, can we change our lifestyles to correct them?" because of course everything in prevention is about lifestyles (but none of them will change their lifestyle enough to wear a mask in crowded places)

@skinnylatte Sorry for the spam but that's such a scam!

@nxskok @skinnylatte I hope you really want to know, because I'm about to nerd out.

All RER trains have a 4 letter code. On line B, the first letter tells you what's the destination stop (E for CDG airport, K for Massy-Palaiseau, L for Orsay-Ville, etc). The second letters describes where the train stops (O is for omnibus). The last two letters are only here to make the code easy to pronounce and understand when transmitted over radio.

So LOUP is an omnibus train for Orsay-Ville :-)

@davidnjoku @temptoetiam just checked for France, and the requirements seem to be indications that you'll go back home (return ticket, proof that you have an occupation to go back to), proof that you have sufficient resources, address where you'll be staying. That already feels invasive, but that's much less than means of tracking you across all your social media/online identities, as well as detailed info about your parents/children/siblings. Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.

@inthehands I'd pay for a written version. Not just a transcript (although that would already be lovely), a written article with the same content but properly editorialized into written format.

#laVoisineDEnFace lit "59 secondes pour prendre de bonnes décisions" et il m'en a fallu largement moins que ça pour décider de ne jamais lire ce livre.

Je croyais avoir tout vu en termes d'idées fausses que les devs se font de ce qu'est un nom, mais en voilà une que je n'avais jamais rencontrée

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/

Deux adoes en jogging dans le tram :
- Djis, qu'est-ce qu'on fait pour manger ?
- Jvais tjfaire un tchoast
- Un quoi ?
- Un tchoast
- Un tchi machin apéritchif là ?
- Mais non tchiés bête, une tchartchine là avec l'avocat et le saumon !
- Ah !
- et l'œuf poché !
- *inquiète* Ah mais on est pas obligées de le faire poché l'œuf ?
- *haussement d'épaules* Bah moi jle fais pocher
- Ouais mais c'est pas obligé.

J'ai lu des articles sur le racisme aux Résistantes, je m'attendais à devoir me remettre en question (je suis blanche, les milieux militants que je fréquente sont très blancs, je fais forcément de la merde quelque part).

Les comportements dénoncés ? Dire que le vote RN n'est pas raciste, mettre le chlordécone et l'agent orange sur le même plan que la loi Duplomb, proclamer ne pas aimer les chinois.

Mais la barre est au sol en fait. Ressaisissez-vous.

@futzle LLMs have changed my life because I'm a machine learning researcher and now people regularly ask me why I or they can't just use genAI to solve a problem that even Sam Altman wouldn't pretend genAI is able to do.

LLMs have changed my life because I'm a professor and I have to keep wondering how to ensure my students are doing the work themselves and therefore learning the skills they're here to learn rather than just pushing buttons.

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For Linux users who want to remove DRMs from ebooks they've legally purchased, so as to read them on the ebook reader they've also legally purchased for their intended purpose: I've updated my setup to replace using #AdobeDigitalEditions through wine with the simple and marvelous libgourou library.

Details here:

https://amrhaps.net/english/post/2025/07/13/Adobe-Digital-Editions%2C-Linux%2C-and-DRMs%3A-Updated-again

With thanks to @mart1oeil who told me years ago this should be possible 🙂

#epub #drm

@skinnylatte I only have a smart watch because it monitors my heart rate and this is very useful in managing chronic fatigue syndrome.

I only connect it to my phone when I need to update its time (that statement in itself is bonkers, I need to connect my watch to an app to set its time, what?).

I sometimes worry that people think I enjoy having a connected watch. And I miss wearing my pretty watch that only tells the time.

2) The effects of over-reliance on AI dialogue systems on students' cognitive abilities: a systematic review, Zhai et al (2024)
https://slejournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40561-024-00316-7
"Our findings indicate that over-reliance impacts cognitive abilities, as individuals increasingly favor fast and optimal solutions over slow ones constrained by practicality."

3) Plus général, mais on imagine bien les conséquences sur l'apprentissage
The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers, Lee et al (2025)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-impact-of-generative-ai-on-critical-thinking-self-reported-reductions-in-cognitive-effort-and-confidence-effects-from-a-survey-of-knowledge-workers/
"Specifically, higher confidence in GenAI is associated with less critical thinking, while higher self-confidence is associated with more critical thinking"

4) Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?, Perry et al. (2023)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3576915.3623157
preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03622
"Overall, we find that participants who had access to an AI assistant based on OpenAI's codex-davinci-002 model wrote significantly less secure code than those without access. Additionally, participants with access to an AI assistant were more likely to believe they wrote secure code than those without access to the AI  assistant."

À la demande générale de @HydrePrever (et aussi un peu @antoinechambertloir et @teol03), quelques références (articles scientifiques en anglais) pour appuyer pourquoi c'est pas une bonne idée du point de vue pédagogique d'intégrer un agent conversationnel basé sur des modèles statistiques du langage (communément appelé "IA" parce que c'est fou ce qu'on peut faire avec du marketing) dans tes enseignements :
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