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Accelerating French Eco-Labelling at Ecobalyse. Developing an innovative open-source engine for Life Cycle Assessment

France
Joined October 2008
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Christophe Combelles retweeted
Replying to @heyshrutimishra
LLMs accumulate a lot of declarative knowledge. That's how they can answer a large number of questions. That's also why they require so many parameters and hence so much memory. But one can replace the accumulation of knowledge by *understanding* That what JEPA world models do. That's one reason they can be useful with considerably less memory and training data than LLMs. This paper merely shows that the underlying similarity structure of the data, whether text or image (e.g. co-occurence of words in text or objects in images) uniquely determines the shape of the representation point cloud, when the encoder is trained trained with a common anti-collapse criterion like SIGReg or VCReg (not by reconstruction).
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Acadia is out today! Bringing the benefits of @elmlang to SQLite and PostgreSQL: - Friendly error messages - Custom types for precise column data - Simple module system for easy reuse Check it out! acadia.engineering/blog/reth…
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Christophe Combelles retweeted
I wrote Deep Learning with Python to be the definitive guide to how deep learning works and how to best make use of it. Tens of thousands of people got their career start via this book. 120,000 copies sold, and downloaded by millions more. And now it's free to read online: deeplearningwithpython.io/
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Christophe Combelles retweeted
Unveiling our new startup Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs). We just completed our seed round: $1.03B / 890M€, one the largest seeds ever, probably the largest for a European company. We're hiring! [the background image is the Veil Nebula - a picture I took from my backyard, most appropriate for an unveiling] More details here: techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/ya…
Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) is building a new breed of AI systems that understand the world, have persistent memory, can reason and plan, and are controllable and safe. We’ve raised a $1.03B (~€890M) round from global investors who believe in our vision of universally intelligent systems centered on world models. This round is co-led by Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital, and Bezos Expeditions, along with other investors and angels across the world. We are a growing team of researchers and builders, operating in Paris, New York, Montreal and Singapore from day one. Read more: amilabs.xyz/ AMI - Real world. Real intelligence.
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Christophe Combelles retweeted
Replying to @EnvoyeSpecial
Tout est dit.
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La direction du numérique des ministères sociaux cherche un "développeur IA/LLM" choisirleservicepublic.gouv.…
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We are back with a long-awaited addition to our Haskell in Production series! We spoke with FINN.no, a Norwegian digital marketplace for classified ads, about their experience with Haskell. #Haskell #HaskellDevelopment serokell.io/blog/haskell-in-…
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The #Brightcon2023 #hackathon is underway! This weekend, the #Hestia @UniofOxford team is hosting 2 days of hacking and innovation to integrate agriculture and food supply chain #data with open #LCA software to quantify agricultural emissions and resource use. 💻 @brightcon_media
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Christophe Combelles retweeted
The WordPress online editor should be studied as the example of bad software design. Not only is it unusable, but it's also buggy. The auto-save regularly loops forever, thus losing your edits.
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It's almost time! Thunderbird Supernova releases at noon PST / 3pm EST / 9pm CEST. (Less than an hour from right now!)
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Thunderbird 115 "Supernova" launches on Monday, July 10th! It's our first step towards a more modern, more beautiful, and more customizable Thunderbird experience. We think you're going to love it, and we are endlessly grateful for all of your support throughout the years 💙
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Les températures baissent, et on a tous les yeux rivés sur le prix de l'énergie, en se demandant comment on va se chauffer. Vu le succès du thread sur la canicule, je vous propose son équivalent pour l'hiver : protéger son logement du froid - thread d'architecte ! 🧵
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Le nouveau caprice d'Elon devrait être fatal pour moi. J'ai été ravi d'échanger avec vous ici pendant toutes ces années. help.twitter.com/en/rules-an…
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Christophe Combelles retweeted
I was today years old when I learned the names of 3-6th derivatives of position. 🫣🫣🫣
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End of the month is a good time to remind that GIMP maintainer @zemarmot and GEGL maintainer @hodefoting are both crowdfunding their work. Donating to developers is a good way to support sustainable development of GIMP. Links to both funding: gimp.org/donating/
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COPPER🧵redux. I live near one of the largest copper mines on earth (Kennecott Utah Copper - KUC). I helped manage a smaller copper mine for 8 years. Observation: Wind/Solar/Battery Proponents & ESG bean-counters are completely out of touch with copper mining & production.
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#Btrfs Brings Some Great Performance Improvements With #Linux 6.1 phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.1-…
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Quite a few nice performance improvements in the main #btrfs merge for #Linux #kernel 6.1: git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/76… "[…] support io_uring and buffered writes […] leads to speed improvement in IOPS (2x), throughput (2.2x), latency (depends, 2x to 150x) […]"
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Christophe Combelles retweeted
BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Physics to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger.
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Christophe Combelles retweeted
🌟 A star is born! Behind the curtain of dust and gas in these “Cosmic Cliffs” are previously hidden baby stars, now uncovered by Webb. We know — this is a show-stopper. Just take a second to admire the Carina Nebula in all its glory: nasa.gov/webbfirstimages/ #UnfoldTheUniverse
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