Category: Blog
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IA : « Réhabilitons le brouillon, la rature, l’essai, l’erreur, non comme signes d’échec, mais comme conditions de la pensée »
La perfection algorithmique exerce ici une séduction dangereuse. Elle promet de supprimer la faute, l’hésitation, la lenteur, la honte de mal formuler. Mais une société qui ne tolère plus l’erreur finit par ne plus tolérer l’humain. L’enfant qui apprend, l’étudiant qui cherche, le chercheur qui doute, le citoyen qui écrit maladroitement une idée juste : tous…
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Supermountains, the Boring Billion, and Their Connection to Life on Earth
As both mountains eroded away, they would have dumped tremendous amounts of nutrients like iron and phosphorus into the sea through the water cycle, the researchers said. These nutrients could have significantly sped up biological cycles in the ocean, driving evolution to greater complexity. In addition to this nutrient spillover, the eroding mountains may have…
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Le déclin de la lecture face à l’avénement des écrans marque-t-il la fin de l’ère démocratique ?
Les non-lecteurs – ceux qui ne lisent aucun livre par an – sont en forte augmentation. Ils représentent aujourd’hui près d’un Français sur trois. Au premier trimestre de cette année, l’industrie de l’édition a accusé un recul de 6,5 % par rapport à la même période de 2025. Quant à l’emprunt régulier en bibliothèque, il a…
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Les « backrooms », des labyrinthes de l’angoisse nés de la culture Web qui font revivre des « peurs ancestrales »
Le folklore numérique regorge de formes de vie hybrides et de récits construits autour de l’idée de passage : des portes qui s’ouvrent, des univers qui se déploient, des espaces qui se multiplient, des entités qui habitent les seuils ou possèdent le pouvoir de les franchir. Dimension intermédiaire par excellence, suspendue entre le monde en ligne…
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‘They take you out of life, out of time’: a journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintings | Archaeology | The Guardian
Jung built his concept of the collective unconscious on a dream he had about descending the staircase of a big house. Each level corresponded to a lower, earlier layer of human history, from the 20th century all the way down to a bedrock floor scattered with the oldest Homo sapiens skulls. So, to stand before…
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Are the AIs conscious? Are humans?
I am here to tell you that there is no ghost in the machine. But perhaps more importantly, there is barely a “ghost” in your own human machine. “Are people conscious?” is a better and more scientifically plausible question than whether AIs are conscious. — Read on marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/06/are-the-ais-conscious.html
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AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy
If you want ownership and accountability, you need feedback loops. Feedback loops connecting cause with effect are how we learn and make sense of the world. As we write in the upcoming Observability Engineering (2nd ed):5 “Feedback loops that are timely, precise, and relevant enable self-awareness in humans and self-governance in teams. They generally produce…
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The Strange Allure of the Single-Sentence Novel | Totei – The Art Is in the Making
John Banville says the sentence is what sets us above and apart from the animals — Read on www.totei.com/story/single-sentence-novel-daniel-kraus-jon-fosse
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The world is bigger than you can imagine – by Scott Sumner
Most economies are very large and complex, and even relatively free market economies have extensive government intervention. This complexity allows people to find evidence to support almost any position on the question of optimal policy regimes. In a country that is viewed as relatively successful, it is almost always possible to find a few examples…