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michaelhoffman.bsky.social
Chair, Computational BIology and Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network. Associate Professor, Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto. Disclosures: https://github.com/michaelmhoffman/disclosure/
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"SurveyMonkey technology". Folks I can't even
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Take an extra drink if they suggest that space is needed for *three* cars per household.
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At Economic and Community Development Committee this week, he seemed visibly burned out. Hope he gets a good break.
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lol! Maybe a constitutional difference in how much skepticism is engrained in different professional tracks.
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In my experience, non-ML trained biomed faculty often have good instincts about what is and is not possible with ML but are concerned they are missing something made possible by new technology. They are not!
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Discover even exists for those who want it!
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*golf clap*
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Maybe an ignorant question, but if they don't have formal orders, why are they there?
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Like rent control or not, it's not up to the City of Toronto. The solution isn't to wait until the province removes the post-2018 exemption before we start building more homes. (And to be clear, I like Ontario-style rent control. Except for the post-2018 landlord giveaway from Doug Ford.)
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If you ever get any better explanations for what happened here, I definitely want to know about it!
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I liked the "Tu quoque, Brute" version better.
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The above was justifying a framing because of its rhetorical effect on one audience while pretending that it has no effect on another.
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I don't know the answers to these questions in general. I do know that people who argue that certain practices are required in science had damn well better follow those practices.
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Or, as I've said before x.com/michaelhoffm...
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And I am with Kevin and Carl here—there are a lot of necessary improvements to scientific research, but that does not excuse making unjustified claims about the scope of the problem for rhetorical purposes. That itself is bad science!
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Pragmatically, the unwarranted crisis framing has now blown up in our faces.
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Today, so far
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Yes, although it makes a serendipitous illustration of Fletcher's record of substantively holding improvements
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Not shown: 6 more items held by Paula Fletcher.
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I once saw the Greens described as "Tories who Garden". No one exemplifies that better than Dianne Saxe. Likes to tout her environmental credentials, but often fights against things that will make meaningful improvements to the environment. This is just another example.
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I miss the heyday of other bookstores generally but buying textbooks at mine around the turn of the century was not unlike the Beer Store. More of a warehouse than a place for browsing.
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No campus bookstore? Then where will tourists and parents buy institution-branded merch? 😱
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I almost never get a response from @diannesaxe.bsky.social's office on anything. Least responsive representative I've ever had at any level of government. Not exaggerating.
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Outrageous. I would like to thank you for your hard work to make things better over the years.
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How tall is tall?
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To some extent, that is what they mean.
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The police response was horrible. I hope she reports to 311. Not sure how much legwork MLS will do to identify the dog and owner, but if she can get their name and address they will probably issue a Dangerous Dog Order.
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Sorry, #notallpundits, Mr. Bouie.
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Why don't pundits have object permanence?