On recherche un.e candidat.e pour une offre de thèse dans le cadre du projet ANR GEvoK (Geographic entities Evolution in Knowledge graphs) portant sur la détection et l'annotation sémantique automatique des changements géographiques dans des données de sources diverses (et notamment OpenStreetMap)
Tous les détails peuvent être trouvés (fr/en) ici : https://filesender.renater.fr/?s=download&token=018928d1-7b92-4bf6-b030-45ded8a86409.

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#jerecrute #osm #openstreetmap #grenoble #phd

We are looking for a candidate for a PhD position as part of the ANR GEvoK project (Geographic Entities Evolution in Knowledge Graphs), focusing on the detection and automatic semantic annotation of geographical changes in data from various sources (including OpenStreetMap). The PhD position is based in Grenoble (in the French Alps!).
Full details can be found here: https://filesender.renater.fr/?s=download&token=018928d1-7b92-4bf6-b030-45ded8a86409

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#hiring #phd #osm #openstreetmap #geoSpatial

Daytime, when the mind is clear, critical thinking is strong, and ability to deal with hard realities holds, that is the time to edit.
Nighttime, when the mind is barely holding on and inhabitation is low, that is the time to write.

#WritingCommunity

Elephant's foot will get a whole new meaning in 3D printing.

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/07/03/startup-targets-datacenters-with-3d-printed-nuclear-reactor-module/5266480

#3dprinting #nuclear

Canal St-Martin, dans le tunnel sous Richard-Lenoir, il y a trois jours (photos de @vincevlo)

I keep having this dream where I live in an incredibly stupid dystopia, and I can’t wake up

RE: https://eigenmagic.net/@vampiress/116859241032699772

“I poisoned my own mind.”

More and more programmers are writing retrospectives like this — and a huge THANK YOU to Elissa for doing so — where they discover that Programming Is Not Special.

It is particularly interesting to read this from a solo game developer who is both a programmer and an artist, who began by thinking the programing isn’t art, and discovered by an emotionally torturous process that it actually is.

I must have a very healthy brain then.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/when-the-ability-to-smell-goes-away/

Introducing the itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow honeycomb machiney

Now with RX 9060 XT 16GB, tiniest version I could find. Replaces my much larger GTX 1070, which just turned 10 years old 👴

It was supposed to have a 140mm case fan in the front, but I can't fit it for those PSU cables...

The case is https://www.printables.com/model/614339-little-boy-s-tiny-mini-itx-case, which I had to modify to fit the GPU

#3dPrinting #pcBuilding #pcCase

Only just now realising that the wish fulfilment of having a dedicated slave or polite servant might play a bigger role in the popularity of chatbots than I expected

I can be slow sometimes, but I also always thought the constant signals of servility these systems are made to exude were obviously distasteful, even when experienced second-hand through other people's reports

new metaphor just dropped

Blog post: Inspired by the video I just boosted - some honest thoughts on my AI remorse from my experiments earlier in the year.

It was bad, and I have SERIOUS regrets.

https://goodnameforablog.com/posts/very-average-prototypes/

So, its now pretty clear that the heatwaves in the first hall of 2026 were exceptional & have been outside the averages for the last 35 years;

iven the time it takes the environment to respond to human activity (and changes in that activity), I think we can say this is the likely story for years (or decades) to come.

Clearly, we need to develop a built environment better able to deal with temperature spikes & personal habits that keep us safe(r)... but will we?

#heatwave #ClimateChange

The process is the point.

AI companies are hard at work to extract some of the essence of this process knowledge from you too. In part through all the skills.md files you now have to write.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeCSzEtZcUw

The latest Terrible Toybox contractor agreement has a 218 word section about how you can't use AI and it was written by a real life human lawyer, so you know I'm serious. AI is a cancer to the creative process and I do consider programing to be a creative process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeCSzEtZcUw

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ajayiyer/116860783197537752

If you refer to previous work in you methodology at a minimum include a minimal viable description.

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Gets paper after weeks of waiting and 3 reminders!

Reads...

WAIT A MINUTE, Methods section refers to another publication...

Checks: it's another paywalled article

MO#$%F&@# !!

#academicresearch #openaccess

⚠️ Safety is everyone's concern

📢 DO NOT TOUCH THE RIDERS.
📢 DO NOT USE FLARES.
📢 KEEP YOUR PHONE BEHIND THE BARRIERS.
📢 DON'T STAND ON THE ROAD.
📢 DO NOT OBSTRUCT RIDERS WITH FLAGS
Just don't do anything stupid.

⚠️ La sécurité c'est l'affaire de tous !

📢 NE TOUCHEZ PAS LES COUREURS.
📢 N'UTILISEZ PAS DE FUMIGENES.
📢 NE DEPASSEZ PAS LES BARRIERES
📢 TENEZ VOUS HORS DE LA ROUTE
📢 NE GENEZ PAS LES COUREURS AVEC DES DRAPEAUX

#TDF2026 #EveryStage

Code reviewing was never the most interesting thing to do. But it had one important element. That, if done right, it was knowledge exchange between the reviewer and the coder. That can be quite motivating. Helping a fellow coder to become better. Reviewing "AI" written code does NOT come with that potential reward. The machine doesn't learn the way a human does. This turns code review into a menial, fruitless task that leads to frustration instead. That's my observation and opinion.

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