Source: Montpellier company: https://www.illogicstudios.com/

Interesting, especially as the city is also host to some of the best gaming developers.

Every time I read something like this reminds me of Maturana (of autopoiesis fame), who was among the first scientists from where I started gaining an interest in these areas. Relevant to his view, in the area of language, is the following:

"We human beings are living systems that exist in language. This means that although we exist as human beings in language and although our cognitive domains (domains of adequate actions) as such take place in the domain of languaging, our languaging takes place through our operation as living systems. Accordingly, in what follows I shall consider what takes place in language[,] as language arises as a biological phenomenon from the operation of living systems in recurrent interactions with conservation of organization and adaptation through their co-ontogenic structural drift, and thus show language as a consequence of the same mechanism that explains the phenomena of cognition:"

The part about retirement is total BS. I worked hard to FIRE in my mid 50s as I had already over 300 books still to read by then, min 20 countries I still wanted to visit, two additional languages to learn enough to be able to read in original some of the books not having been translated in the languages I already know, and update my physics and math college knowledge from when I was younger. None of this was possible while working. And quite a few years later I now have over 500 books left (the original ones had tons of references which expanded a lot of books to a few more), still places to see, even in countries which I crossed out from the original list, but I could not completely traverse, or languages not yet mastered to the level I need.

To me the "revelation" came via Emil Cioran's book "The inconvenience of being born" (the actual book's title in English is "The Trouble with Being Born", but I like better the term that's closer to the French original). Excellent justification.

I strongly recommend reading Carlo Rovelli, starting with "The Order of Time"

Sure! [1]

[1] https://www.techspot.com/news/110418-nvidia-jensen-huang-urg...

Creating and using tons of python scripts under Homebrew, I had to learn by heart:

$ python3 -m venv .venv # Create a virtual environment

$ source .venv/bin/activate # Activate the virtual environment

(.venv) pip install <whatever you need> # Install stuff within the virtual environment

...

(.venv) deactivate

$ [sudo] rm -fR .venv