My thoughts on various subjects. I particularly love hacking my work. Either by methodology or by improving my tools. Check out this list of tags / subjects.

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Retraite, baby boomers et pyramide des ages

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Je n’avais jamais bien compris pourquoi les baby boomers étaient un tel problème pour les retraites des plus jeunes. Mon hypothèse était que la retraite des ...

Course on inverted index

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I gave a three hours course on inverted index to students from Telecom SudParis an engineering school here in… Paris :) It was fun to refresh my knowledge on...

Devoxx CfP - the art of tricking yourself

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I noticed that the Devoxx France call for paper (CfP) application was influencing my votes. Sneaky one! Jeff Atwood’s tweet made me rethink about something ...

Why do we have corporate income tax anyways?

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There is a lot being written about corporate tax optimisation/evasion these days both in Europe and in the US. This begs for a more general question, why do ...