Jean-François Blanchette

@jasonfried Also quite durable. My mother gave me hers and it still works just fine after 50 years, even if the plastics have yellowed a bit.

The original Cuisinart was peak interface/appliance design. Two perfect paddle buttons. One for ON that catches and stays down for continual operation. And one for PULSE/OFF that does exactly what it says. It doesn't stay down, it returns to reset when you let go. Hold it down as long as you want to pulse. Let go and it stops. Or just push it down to disengage ON, and turn it off. The description may sound a bit convoluted because of the dual purpose PULSE/OFF button, but when you use it it's absolutely obvious. And couldn't be better. Big flat toggle buttons under satisfying tension. Clear affordances. You push them down, not in. One click catches, one doesn't. You can use them with bare hands, oven mitts, fingers coated in slippery whatever. Doesn't matter. Plenty of surface area. Outstanding design. It's been all downhill from there.

@JohnDCook Isn’t it because it’s more (politically) useful as an absolute than as a crude measure full of internal contradictions?

"Everyone knows [pick your metric] is a crude measure, full of internal contradictions, but it's still useful. Nobody takes it as absolute." Then everybody takes it as absolute.

@netcapgirl There is so much more misery you haven't juiced from this meme yet, please don't stop.

@rbultje @minz_anupam @FFmpeg Thank you. And why are there more algorithms required to implement the codec? What are the codecs doing now that they weren’t doing in the past?

@blanchettejf @minz_anupam @FFmpeg Number and complexity of algorithms required to implement the codec. It's expected that complexity increases over time, but a human can only fit so much in his/her brain and thus fewer people really understand these new codecs. AI cannot fix this.

It's great to see ML bring a new generation to the world low level programming and optimisation! For many reasons (e.g exponential codec complexity) multimedia unfortunately has substantially larger barriers to entry compared to ten years ago.

@rbultje @minz_anupam @FFmpeg Apologies if this question is obvious, but this is due to?…

@minz_anupam @FFmpeg In the old days, one person could reasonably implement a JPEG decoder in a day or a MPEG-1 decoder in a week. For H-264/VP9, that would take a month. For HEVC/AV1/VVC, we're talking 3-6 months. There are no signs of this implementation complexity tapering off in AVM or H267.

@YDesgagnes Absolument scandaleux. En plus d’être en colère, j’avais honte. Pourquoi est-ce qu’on doit tout enlaidir avec de la publicité? C’est sans rien dire de la narration inepte …

@MaryKenny4 I have never seen people so intent on proving the point of their political adversaries.

@MaryKenny4 It’s even worse than that. The response is « How can we stop the National Rally from gaining power, even if it involves making gimmicky alliances that will further prove to these voters that the system is rigged to prevent them from ever getting heard? »

The almost universal response to Marine Le Pen’s electoral victory has been “How can the National Rally be stopped?” Shouldn’t the question be asked: “What are the voters trying to tell us, through the due process of democracy?”

yeah yeah yeah, the author has a thing for steganography, but there's so much gold in this book, especially Chapter 4. If you take my "advanced topics in cryptography" module in autumn, you'll hear about it.

"Burdens of Proof: Cryptographic Culture and Evidence Law in the Age of Electronic Documents" by Jean-François Blanchette is underappreciated by cryptographers. Go read it: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262017510/…

@MathieuAvanzi Au Québec, dans mon milieu en tout cas, on utilisait souvent "Scott towel" (du nom du fabriquant Scott), confirmé par cette notice de l'Office québécois de langue française, qui désapprouve: vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fich…

🧻 Principales dénominations du papier absorbant 👉 🇫🇷 Le saviez-vous ? Le mot #Sopalin, attesté des 1948, est l’acronyme de SOciété du PApier LINge, qui a commercialisé le produit en France. Le mot « essuie-tout » n’apparaît qu’en 1979 et n’a jamais vraiment réussi à détrôner Sopalin des usages. 🇧🇪 En Belgique, #scottex est un nom de marque. Il demeure moins utilisé que essuie-tout, qui arrive en tête des sondages. 🇨🇭 En Suisse enfin, « papier-ménage » (ou « papier de ménage ») est un calque de l’allemand « haushalts-papier ». Sopalin et papier essuie-tout sont connus sur ce territoire, mais jamais utilisés !

@CaitlinPacific @walterkirn @JoyceCarolOates Another famous example of a deserving writer suffering from similar suspicion was Simenon.

@walterkirn @JoyceCarolOates An irrational distrust of her prolific output. She is a great writer, hugely deserving of the award. But over and over again in literary circles, you hear this suspicion. It's stupid and - in a conclusion I rarely draw - sexist. That kind of range and stamina are for men.

Thought before bed: @JoyceCarolOates deserves the Nobel Prize in literature What's taking them so long?

[Conférence Débat #IAGénératives] Les étudiants et étudiantes réagissent : « C’est nécessaire aujourd’hui de savoir prompter : les avocats utilisent les outils d’IA quotidiennement notamment pour générer des contrats » #FuturDuDroit

Les étudiants de @UVSQFacDSP partagent leurs usages des #IA lors du séminaire-débat sur les #IAgénératives. « La démocratisation de l’IA dans le domaine juridique permettra aux étudiants de se concentrer sur des soft-skills telles que l’aisance à l’oral. » #iajuridique

@uvsq @UCLA UCLA offre une page de ressources très utiles pour aider la communauté universitaire à apprivoiser l'usage de l'IA générative: teaching.ucla.edu/resources/ai_g…

@blanchettejf (@UCLA) Concernant l’utilisation des #IAgénératives à l’Université : « Il y a 2 approches : - Incitative (Compétition de prompting, correction d’une base générée par l’#IA…) - Répressive (vérification de la preuve d’un travail élaboré sans l’aide de l’IA)

Such a stylish room and stage for presentations ... #NTTW7

Start of No Time To Wait 7 in Prague! #NTTW7

Séminaire-débat sur les #IAgénératives à la faculté de droit et de science politique @UVSQFacDSP. Quels changements pour les études universitaires ? @SandrineClavel @melanieclef @blanchettejf