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Sunday, December 11, 2016

Premier ouvrage sur l’IA publié en France

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En 1971, je travaillais auprès de Pierre Schaeffer [1910-1995] au Service de la Recherche de l’ORTF . Schaeffer m’a donné alors les moyens ...
Saturday, December 10, 2016

Les agissements nocturnes de Fitzroy sont de la folie

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Mais, dans les mots de Shakespeare, cela ne manque pas de méthode . Je parlerais franchement de l' intelligence du type Homo . Ve...

Etonnant, non ?

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Cliquer ici pour regarder Monsieur Cyclopède . Je pense au matin, il y a longtemps, quand j’avais croisé Pierre Desproges du côté de C...
Friday, December 9, 2016

Kirk Douglas has turned 100

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#KirkDouglas100th Issur Danielovitch Demsky , alias Kirk Douglas , was born in New York on 9 December 1916. He is the father of the actor/...
Thursday, December 8, 2016

Oldies at Sydney University

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Click here to see how the famous old Honi Soit weekly newspaper will be preserved online. This 88-year-old jacaranda tree in the ch...
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Australia and her Aborigines still trying to understand each other

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#Australie #AustraliaDay #Aborigènes The long road has been winding its way through a tunnel for many years, and the bright light is not y...
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Pair of simple English words that utterly confuse the French

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Here's an example of a confusion I found yesterday:   Plantu's  presidential candidates both regret their years spent applying...
Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Lost enough already — no more time to lose

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François Hollande has barely started his speech revealing that he won’t be seeking a second term in office. Removal people are already carti...
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Family-history detective work

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A few days ago, an unknown person wanted to leave a short comment on one of my family-history articles written in 2009 : “ What a great piec...
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Our suddenly-popular president

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For a current president, there's no better way of gaining popularity than to announce that you'll be abandoning the job. That leaves...
Sunday, December 4, 2016

Ancestry company’s DNA conclusions “mostly total bollocks”

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                                            Graham Roumieu for BuzzFeed News I was pleased to hear the British geneticist Adam Rutherfo...

Mind-stuff

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As a young man encountering mathematics, science and philosophy at the University of Sydney, I was fascinated by a book by Arthur Eddington ...

More Leonard Cohen... for eternity

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                                                                       DIEGO TUSON/AFP Click here for Suzanne , Bird on the Wire a...

Damages of death

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The following blog post is dedicated to friends who have suffered—recently or less recently—from the death of loved ones. Unfortunately I...
Saturday, December 3, 2016

Xmas gift for me

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Here’s an excellent suggestion. Since this French issue of Blake & Mortimer volume 24 is a comic book, I’m sure my momentarily degraded...
Friday, December 2, 2016

Google software improves its own translation process

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                                                                           [photo Manuel Burgos/Getty] Click here to read a New Scient...

Website names don't attract visitors

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People imagine that it's a good idea to give a new website a name that's likely to attract visitors. In fact, search engines don...

Base jumps can go wrong

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Tineke Bot sent me a photo of land at Châtelus, taken from their house in Choranche.                                                  ...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

Plantu says goodbye

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What exactly is that white object that the president is waving? Is it a handkerchief... or maybe some kind of female garment? ...

Sewage power to handle drinkable water

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A city in Denmark will be the first place in the world to use domestic wastewater and sewage to handle their system of drinkable water. Now,...
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William Skyvington
Gamone, Choranche, France
After working in various computing jobs, I retired to an old farm property in the Vercors mountain range, on the edge of the French Alps, where I spend my time writing, playing with the Internet and looking out upon the slopes in the company of my dog Fitzroy, admiring wonders created by the Big Bang and Evolution.
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