One of the big project from last year for me was to create a nice small homelab. On my previous projects, namely AuroraWatch and my personal document manager, everything was running inside my tiny NAS memory with my even tinier NAS CPU. It was fine for a basic project like aurorawatch that only fetches a website and does some text extraction and analysis. But my personal document manager was too h...
Continuing the series on lasers. In the first part, I went fast over plenty of concepts and left others on the side because they were not necessary to get a global understanding of lasers. Here, I want to get a little deeper in some specific concepts. I want to talk more in details about the gain medium of a laser and why population inversion is a vital concept....
As a physics student, our teachers would usually spend a few minutes talking about how it is extremely important to check dimensions. Back then, I was listening and not really thinking how that would help me concretely to find the answer to the problem they were giving us. I would always be puzzled by why they were talking about this, and then never, ever, using it themselves in class or during th...
So I want to start a series of posts that will focus mostly on lasers, what they are, how they work, what are the most important elements, etc... It can still evolve....
I am a fan of disaster movies. I have grown in the 90's and 00's, at a time where Hollywood started a trend of summer blockbusters that usually involved alien invasion, or volcanoes and other gigantic threat that was supposed to threaten the existence of Humanity. We had it all: Independence Day, Volcano, Armageddon, Deep Impact, 12 monkeys, etc... Spectacular and frightening....
Just a small post today. I stumbled upon a paper [1] on ArXiv recently on a surprising sorting algorithm that was discovered pretty recently (in October 2021)....
I was reading an article from Le Monde about the state of French research, especially the despair of French doctorates, and what it means. As you might have seen if you have read my bio, I am French, and I have a doctorate, although not from a French University but from EPFL in Switzerland. So I think it is important to write here what I think of the situation because it affects me directly....
Climate change is a mess. It's hotter in some places, colder in other, and in general, severe weather is intensifying with longer droughts, heavier rainfalls and stronger storms. This problem, caused mostly by our method of generation of energy relying on burning fuel and releasing carbon dioxide in the air has a few solutions, among them: the wind turbine to harvest wind energy and generate clean...