Le PLF 2020 prévoit la possibilité pour l’administration fiscale et douanière d’utiliser un procédé de datamining. Analyse.

La sécurité juridique, principe directeur de l'État de droit, se heurte parfois, outre l'inflation législative, à la réalité des tribunaux et à la difficile évaluation de ses chances de succès en cas de litige. C'est ce à quoi la justice prédictive tente d'apporter une réponse.

L'apparition de modes de prise de décisions automatisée emporte certaines interrogations juridiques. Si le robot agit seul, qui est responsable de ses actes ? Les régimes de responsabilité actuels conviennent-t-ils à ce cas de figure ? Quel régime de responsabilité pour l'intelligence artificielle ?

La blockchain concurrence les principales activités de la Banque. Fait-elle peser une véritable menace sur le système bancaire ? Le cadre juridique des services financiers est-il adapté à cette mutation ?

As I’m reading Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence, I found this article from Aeon1 about the brain and the bad analogy it suffers from computers. In it, Robert Epstein writes that brains are not at all like computers, but their own organic things. For example, they don’t store information like computers: the author asked people to draw from memory 1$ bills and then to draw them with a reference. The results vastly differ, the first draw being very sparse and the second much more elaborate2, showing that our brain has trouble to store that kind of information, unlike computers who don’t have any problem to do it.…

You may have casually heard the expression “Banana Republic” in a conversation, understanding vaguely its meaning but not really grasping where does it comes from, or why it does have this connotation. If you take a dictionary, you would find this definition : A small nation, especially in Central America, dependent on one crop or the influx of foreign capital. Well, okay, but why is it used in a pejorative way?…

The first work from John Vaillant that I heard of was The Tiger, a story about the last great tiger in Siberia and of the mens who killed it. If the story looks interesting by itself, what was the most striking in this book was the amount of background and the depth of information in it; not only you learn about the story of how this beast was killed and why, but also the mindset of the people in this remote part of the world, the psychology of the animal, and much much more.…

Background If there is someone who deeply influenced me in the last 6 months, it’s Ryan Holiday. Last summer, I stumbled on his monthly reading newsletter (you should subscribe here, it’s well worth it), and I found some great books to read. But if you have to start somewhere, go to his Reading List, and you will find some jewels. The first book from his list is Marcus Aurelius “Meditations”, who he describes as :…

When I was a child, I was reading quite a lot compared to my peers. At 10, I devoured the entire Harry potter collection (at that time, only 5 of them were published), was a fan of Both Emile Zola and Frederic Beigbeder1 in my teenage years, but then stopped reading much when I got into college. I didn’t saw it as something to worry on, because I was reading a lot of news publications, mostly about tech, and considered that it could palliate this loss.…

Like many people, I want to read more books that I do. Many times while browsing the internet, I find myself exposed to books highly recommended by people I deeply admire, or people I just know being successful, but I always end up reading the first chapter and then forgetting to check them out, or catching myself daydreaming every two minutes while reading them. At the end of the day, the only kind of books where I can deeply immerse myself in are fiction books, like the new translation of The Lord of the Rings (that I highly recommend to French people, it’s just pure awesomeness), not books like Robert Caro’s biographies or Robert Greene’s Mastery.…