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Using the file system structure to make a Smalltalk (Smalltix): https://programmingmadecomplicated.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/... (and the article that followed https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3759429.3762633 )

They have already:

- https://helsing.ai/newsroom/helsing-and-mistral-announce-str... - https://sifted.eu/articles/mistral-helsing-defence-ai-action... - Luxembourg army chose Mistral: https://www.forcesoperations.com/la-pepite-francaise-mistral... - French army: https://www.defense.gouv.fr/actualites/ia-defense-sebastien-...

There are some experiments in using copy-and-patch for the R language (after Python): https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3759548.3763370

From a master thesis: https://www.itspy.cz/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/it_spy_2025_...

His bio gives a more detailed description of the startup: "after his PhD, Bharath co-founded Computable a startup that built better tools for collaborative dataset management", which seems to not exist anymore.

But he came back to drug discovery:

"Bharath is currently the founder and CEO of Deep Forest Sciences, which is building an AI-powered suite for drug and materials design and discovery."

OCaml with wasocaml: https://github.com/OCamlPro/wasocaml

About how eval is used in other languages:

- in Javascript: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-22655-7_...

- in R: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3485502

I mostly eat 90% and now find 85% too sweet (but 100% too bitter). I think our taste just adapts to the level of sweetness after some time.

Another recent (2020) work on types for R: "Designing types for R, empirically" https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3428249

Accessing the code part and modifying during execution is actually rather easy in R. Functions such as substitute or quote are commonly used and a language expression in R is a list that you can edit and evaluate back.

The internals itself in R actually sound quite lispy: both values and codes are SEXP (S-expressions).

R is inspired by Scheme and Common Lisp; it has first-class functions, multiple dispatch.

https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/Interface98...

"This decision, more than anything else, has driven the direction that R development has taken. As noted above, there are quite strong similarities between Scheme and S, and the adoption of the S syntax for our interpreter produced something which “felt” remarkably close to S."

Are you referring to CIFRE-funded PhD thesis?

They asked Ifop, a polling institute, to do a survey. The survey used a representative sample of 28 000 French people (in French, https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/les-cinq-chiffres-c... )

What impresses me with Faust is the sheer number of targets they have: most audio plugin formats out there, but also web audio plugins, the new SOUL language (https://soul.dev/), Rust, C++, C, LLVM bitcode.

It seems to me, after quickly reading liquisoap documentation, that Faust is much more low-level: liquidsoap would connect different audio effects, whereas Faust can be used to write the audio effects, at the level of sample-by-sample processing.

Do they tax young people a lot?

Young people are not likely to earn money a lot, or at all in France, and so their income tax is 0%...

https://www.blevinsfranks.com/news/article/French-taxation-i...

Up to €10,084: 0% (a student job would not make more than that)

€10,084 – €25,710: 11% (a young person without a university degree would not probably earn less than 25,710)

Image search is one of the pain points when you want to deploy your own cloud, and what I'd miss compared to Google Photo or that image search in Dropbox.

Is there something like that in Nextcloud for instance? I am aware of a basic face recognition app (https://github.com/matiasdelellis/facerecognition)

A new one is planned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_French_aircraft_carrier

There is ocamljava: http://www.ocamljava.org/

But it does not seem to be maintained.

They might not come, but they will send you a letter to ask you if really, really, you don't have a TV.

The pass navigo (transportation card) was actually refunded for the period of the massive strikes of December 2019...

https://www.iledefrance.fr/les-passes-navigo-du-mois-de-dece... (in French)

There is actually something called "service minimum" by law for public transport workers during strikes. Without it, there would not be any metro or RER at all during strikes in Paris.

The metro in Paris had an objective of more than 96.5% of reliability in 2018 according to https://actu.fr/ile-de-france/paris_75056/du-rer-b-ligne-13-... (in French)

All lines fulfilled this objective except line 4, with 96.1%

AS for RER, there is an official governemental website that gives the numbers: http://www.qualitetransports.gouv.fr/les-chiffres-de-la-ponc... (in French) The most reliable one in 2020 is the A with about 94% of reliability and the worst one was RER B in March, with 78.9%.

Other journalists in mainland Europe.

And then they publish articles in the native language of their country.

In France: https://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/un-journaliste-s-introdui... In Belgium: https://www.rtbf.be/info/medias/detail_un-journaliste-neerla...

And so on...

There is an example of the US tax code on the landing page of website (https://catala-lang.org/en/) so they actually seem to have also tried the language on English-written law!

You can add all articles afterwards (even though it can be tedious).

There is actually a tool that is supported by HAL that makes it easier to quickly add all your publications by just giving your name: https://dissem.in/

For instance, it automatically fills in all the metadata for your publications.

Actually, although it is mainly directed to French researchers, nothing prevents researchers not based in France to deposit their papers there.

What about superoptimization? For instance, Stoke (http://stoke.stanford.edu/) or Souper (https://github.com/google/souper). They will not find all optimizations of course, and program equivalence is undecidable indeed, but they are a good shot at optimal compilation, I would say.

In spoken French, I think people usually say ordinateur or (ordinateur) portable (for laptop) though.

A library of pgf/tikz that requires lualatex can do graph drawing. It is called "graphdrawing" actually. It can do the layout automatically and so on. You can add new automatic layouts using lua.

It's described in part IV of the pgf manual.

And in the source code: https://gitlab.inria.fr/stopcovid19/robert-server/-/blob/fea...

Reading the reviews on Google Play, it seems there is some in-app purchase, but on the website, I see no indication paying is needed at some point ( sounds like all is free actually when reading the website) so I am confused...