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Chat GPT comprend ma théorie!

Un ami a récemment soumis à la version payante de ChatGPT le texte en anglais de la théorie des mesures incomplètes, qu’on peut télécharger gratuitement depuis cet article. Le résultat de l’analyse a été tellement spectaculaire qu’il a décidé de le partager avec moi. À mon tour, je vous soumets ces réponses, avec mes commentaires intercalés en rouge. La version courte est que ChatGPT semble…

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Could not have written it better

Seen on github… copied here without permission, but with the intent of preservation. I’m here for software, but unfortunately, Zeitgeist politics invade this space every day.This started as a reply to the PR comment auto-linked above, but it turned into a funny blog post, and everyone needs a laugh. (And some food for thought.) If the reader can’t read more than twitter, just skip it. This…

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Progress?

Progressivists have turned the wonder universities of past into hateful unsafe burning pits of rage. Progressivists have turned Google from a wonderful search engine into a system to hallucinate female black popes and black nazis. Progressivists have turned Wikipedia from a wonderful collaborative tool for knowledge into a web of partisan lies where you can’t correct wilful errors on your own…

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Pixels Quantiques et Relativité

À la demande de nombreuses personnes un peu effrayées par le volume et la complexité apparente de la Théorie des Mesures Incomplètes, j���ai écrit une version abrégée en français exposant les idées essentielles. Ce nouveau livre s’appelle Pixels Quantiques et Relativité. Vous pouvez le lire en ligne sous license Creative Commons, mais pour ceux qui préfèrent le papier, une version devrait…

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The hidden cost of exception handling

The hidden cost of exception handling

During a meeting today, a colleague of mine shared the belief that exception handling had no impact on optimizations in modern C++. While we did everything we could 20+ years ago to ensure that all kinds of optimizations were possible, there is a residual cost that you can trigger. This is section 3.8 in the paper if you are curious. Fibonacci computed using template instantiation Let’s start…

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Les idées loufoques de Christophe de Dinechin

Les idées loufoques de Christophe de Dinechin

Je viens de créer une petite liste de lecture sur YouTube concernant des idées diverses et variées sur la physique, la mécanique quantique, la relativité, etc. Ce qui aiderait cette petite chaîne toute neuve, ce serait de mettre des commentaires ou des questions sur YouTube (sachant que “2:30” dans un commentaire, ça pointe directement vers 2 minutes 30 dans la vidéo), des “pouce en haut”, des…

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Summary of the theory

Summary of the theory

Here is a summary of the theory, as it appears at the beginning of the book. Whatever we conceive well we express clearly,and the words to state it will flow easily.Nicolas Boileau Putting measurements at the center or physics reasonings Since Isaac Newton, we have gotten used to representing laws of physics using equations such as F=ma, which in this particular case describes the experimental…

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Videos explaining the theory

Videos explaining the theory

Here is a video playlist on YouTube giving an overview of the ideas of the Theory of Incomplete Measurements.

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A theory of incomplete measurements

A theory of incomplete measurements

My book on how to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity is now available on Amazon. There is also a video playlist on YouTube giving an overview of the ideas in the book. If you think that the ideas in the book or the videos are bogus, please comment below. For over a century, physics has been in a strange situation: in order to correctly describe the universe, we need not one, but two…

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Boiling frog

A good summary in a boiling frog style that perfectly matches this site.

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The freedom covenant

The year 2020 has seen a massive onslaught on individual liberty, restricting or putting conditions on our movements, what we can say, what we can publish, what we can even think. This is always done ostensibly for some “greater good”, but in reality to grab power. Nothing new here: in the infamous words of Saint-Just, “pas de liberté pour les ennemis de la liberté” (No freedom for ennemies of…

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C++: generating a native interface automatically

C++: generating a native interface automatically

When you write a programming language translator, it is useful to be able to connect to the underlying system easily. In this post, I will show how modern C++ makes it possible to entirely automate this process. Using variadic templates, it is possible – and relatively easy – to let the compiler generate all the boilerplate code connecting your translator to any native C function. Adding a C…

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La SNCF en flagrant délit d'IP-tracking

La SNCF en flagrant délit d’IP-tracking

La SNCF augmente son prix de 41% en deux minutes

La SNCF affirme ne pas pratiquer l’IP tracking, J’ai du mal à y croire.

Il y a quelques minutes, ma femme va sur le site Voyages SNCF, et demande un billet Paris-Antibes. Prix du billet: 80€. “Attention, dernières places à ce prix”, bien sûr. Mais à un moment, elle fait une erreur, et décide de refaire une recherche sur le même site. Le même billet…

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Informagie, my first sci-fi book

Informagie, my first sci-fi book

I finally completed it! It only took 32 years…

Informagie is a science-fiction book I started writing as a student. It’s in French, although I’m currently working in the English version.

Here is the blurb describing the book on Amazon:

J’ai retrouvé ce manuscrit dans mon grenier. Il a été écrit par mon oncle Antoine Ravelin, qui a disparu mystérieusement dans les années 1990.C’est un…

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Old ideas about an OS from scratch

About five years ago, in 2015, I wrote a rather long document about how to design an operating system from scratch. I won’t give the precise context on why I did that. Some people might be able to guess it from the content.

There was a question on Quora that I thought I would answer by posting this document, after redacting individual names that used to be in there.

Presentation: Random OS ideas

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Informagie, my first sci-fi book

Informagie, my first sci-fi book

After roughly 32 years in the making, I finally finished my first science-fiction book. It’s called “Informagie“, and is for the moment available in French only on Amazon and on Apple Books

The cover image was created by Jean-Claude Meynard, a renowned french artist and a friend of mine, who unfortunately died at the exact time I was finishing the manuscript. I was hoping to have him read it.…

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macOS Catalina Kernel panics

macOS Catalina Kernel panics

I upgraded to macOS Catalina last week (10.15.1). Since then, my computer has crashed no less than three times with the exact same kernel panic, pointing out to something wrong with the graphics driver (com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX4000). The usual trick of letting one minor version pass before upgrading did not work.

panic(cpu 6 caller 0xffffff8004062e0a): Kernel trap at 0xffffff7f871f334e, type…