Nicolas Debock
@ndebock
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VC @eurazeo (ex @balderton / @xangevc / @laposte). Tweet about the #web #tech #startups #mathematics . Fan of Claude Shannon. #FOCS
Paris, France
Joined February 2008
I am more excited to share that we led the first round in @GradiumAI . An amaing team working on state of the art voice ai (Speech to text, text to speech, speech to speech). The talent concentration in the founding team leaves me speechless...
Announcing Gradium. After 10 years of pushing audio research at Meta, Google and Kyutai, I'm joining the start-up arena with my day 1s to take our models from the lab to every voice product out there. Game on.
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These cozy knitted stockings are perfect for keeping your feet warm on chilly winter nights. Whether you’re lounging around the house, watching TV, or wearing slippers or shoes, they add comfort and style to your everyday moments.
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The ultimate solution to procrastination... it's incredibly simple, but too uncomfortable for most people to actually do.
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Why does this belief not die? Life expectancies have dramatically improved at all ages! Early mortality does matter, but people are not living similarly long beyond childhood compared to a century ago. Rather, they are living considerably longer beyond childhood.
@cremieuxrecueil Much of increased life expectancy is the result of lower infant mortality. People are living similar years, more people are making it that far due to safety improvements and prevention in early years. Good thesis on the surface but I think it falls apart pretty easily.
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Olivier Faure : "On a demandé la suspension de la réforme des retraites, on l’a obtenue, maintenant on veut 100 millions d’euros sur un compte offshore et un hélicoptère sinon on censure le gouvernement"
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I was today old when i understood The Beautiful Euler identity e^(πi) = -1 https://t.co/6V8mJydF6Z thank you @3blue1brown you are an amazing curator.
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Imagine spending 14 hours a day projecting cash flows and learning business fundamentals when you could have just bought a piece of rock instead
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A quarter century ago a young journalist on the NYTimes M&A beat arrived at my apartment and impressed me with his acumen and initiative. Today he is the leading financial journalist across print, books, TV, and global conferences with the world’s power brokers on speed dial. He
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Amazing work by @ask_ui team with the launch of Caesr. You can automate workflow not only in the browser but also on desktop and mobile. check out our now here:
caesr.ai
Caesr is an AI agent that automates tasks across web, desktop, and mobile devices using natural language. Control any app without coding—just describe what you need done.
Introducing ⚡ Caesr by @ask_ui The AI agent that operates your computer like a human. Clicks, types, navigates — across desktop, mobile, and web. No APIs. No integrations. Just tell it what to do.
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Trois graphiques interessants sur le poids des pensions en France dans le Financial Times ce matin
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Visualisation is not as good as in the movie #matrix but this is the actual matrix universe in which LLMs are "living".
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Your brain doesn’t erase memories — it just loses the keys that unlock them. This paper introduces a key-value memory system that splits how the brain stores and retrieves. Keys go to the hippocampus for quick access. Values go to the neocortex for high-fidelity storage.
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Il faut savoir le dire quand les gens sont des génies non bravo hein
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So far no drones can do this. Even elaborate light shows rely on preprogrammed routes and deterministic behavior. This emergent, dynamic behavior where the individual birds all follow one another and a ‘flock’ comes to be is still beyond edge compute.
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Another great mind we should all thanks.
Andrey Kolmogorov: The Soviet Counterpart to Claude Shannon When we think of information theory, the name that usually comes to mind is Claude Shannon, the American mathematician whose 1948 paper “A Mathematical Theory of Communication” founded the field.
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I wrote a lengthy piece on observer relative entropy which Wolfram identifed, and what it means, here. Also John Baez defined entropy as unknown information, long ago.
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A Computational Understanding of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Entropy — a term commonly thought of as a measure of disorder — is now known to change depending on the observer. Anthony Aguirre has defined a quantity he calls observational entropy that other researchers say helps to clarify ambiguity around this phenomenon.
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South Park has absolutely nailed the ChatGPT effect. Used in a very selective way it can be a great information processing aid, which can augment the intelligence of naturally smart users. It’s also legit useful as a glorified thesaurus and has some use cases in diagnostics
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This was an amazing cycling moment! @WoutvanAert dropping @TamauPogi just in front of me in the crowd of Montmartre. I will remember this (and this is why I tweet this to keep it in my timeline).
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Google Earth upscaler
Reddit user u/Alternative_Lab_4441 trained a FLUX Kontext LoRA to turn low-res Google Earth screenshots into high-res drone photos. This LoRA turns basic satellite images into professional-quality aerial shots And yes, it’s free to download!
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