The farce that was DOGE made claims of heavy savings and government efficiency.…

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Earlier this year, Kashmir Hill, for the New York Times, reported on a…

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La semaine dernière, dans son article Climat : les mots qui ont fait l’année 2025, Rémi Noyon proposait dérisquage (en sixième position) comme mot qui a fait l’année 2025. La stratégie de l’« Etat dérisqueur » a montré ses limites Comment continuer à soutenir les technologies bas-carbone ? Les capitaux continuent d’affluer – ils ont doublé entre 2015 et 2024 –, mais beaucoup craignent que ces chiffres soient un trompe-l’oeil. D’une part, les investissements restent tirés par la Chine. D’autre part, on observe un … <a href=“https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/86880" …

A race car pit crew in action during a pit stop. Photo by Paul Krüger. I’m excited to announce revdeprun 2.1.0, a major update to my Rust CLI tool for automating R package reverse dependency checks. This release is really two updates in one: version 2.0.0 accelerated dependency installation, while 2.1.0 addressed two more bottlenecks I discovered during testing. The combined result is a much faster workflow from start to …

I’ve made lots of mistakes, and failure has been good for my intellectual development. But this only works if I learn from my errors, which in turn requires me to be aware that I got things wrong in the first … Continue reading → …

Since it’s dictionary week here on the blog, why not discuss Merriam-Webster’s word of the year: slop. They define it as: digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence. Max Read discusses … Continue reading → …

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