Alain Bublex : Impressions de France

College de France and LSE

This paper examines the potential impact of artificial intelligence (A.I.) on economic growth. We model A.I. as the latest form of automation, a broader process dating back more than 200 years. Electricity, internal combustion engines, and semiconductors facilitated automation in the last century, but A.I. now seems poised to automate many tasks once thought to be out of reach, from driving car...

le cheque de voyage (en france)

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Bacalhao under the Ponte 25 de Abril: impressions from Lisbon.

Close to the conference center in Lisbon where the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) held its annual meeting 2008, a huge bridge spans the Tagus river. It is so high that pedestrians can actually underlook it, but they cannot fail to hear the intense noise which it produces day and night. In addition to the irregular trains running on a separate bridge hanging below the main road bridg...

SOCIÉTÉ MATHÉMATIQUE DE FRANCE quatrième série - tome

Reconsideration of a Tour de France cyclist.

IN 2005, THIS AUTHOR PUBLISHED a paper in the Journal of Applied Physiology that described physiological changes that occurred in a Tour de France cyclist as he matured from 21 to 28 years of age during the period of 1992 to 1999 (2). This cyclist has recently admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs. That leads us to wonder if any of the physiological changes reported in the 2005 paper mi...