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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