Profile avatar
alainchesnais.bsky.social
Past President of the ACM - acm.org Past President of ACM SIGGRAPH - https://siggraph.org/ Past Director of Engineering, Maya - https://autodesk.com/products/maya
296 posts 549 followers 1,444 following
Prolific Poster
Posts 49 Comments 1

An interesting interview on BlueSky development. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQxI...

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

Impressive new results from Google DeepMind www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgsD...

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

This New York Times podcast focuses on the Canadian reaction to the current US administration's chaotic instability www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc6P...

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Interesting analysis by NYU Senior Fellow Ed Rice on Bloomberg www.youtube.com/watch?v=93r-...

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Watching the VIX volatility index since Trump took office. Not good! What this tells us is that the market has little trust in the Trump administration's ability to deliver predictable results that CEOs can make long term plans on.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Love this intervention by Representative Larson that reminds me of what politics feels like in functioning democracy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WmW...

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Sales of Moosehead's Prresidential Pack have sold out 😆 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyZS...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

When an unstoppable toxic force meets an immovable toxic object www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Republican congressmen abdicate their responsibility. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKDP...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Today was a particularly frustrating day as I watched two idiotic conservatives hold a pissing contest over tariffs that serve nobody. I had to go and create a song, using Udio, to express my frustration in order to get my blood pressure back to normal. youtu.be/JC5fd6D2JgY

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

33 million users and counting....

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

BlueSky has now surpassed 33 million users. Hear Jay Graber's keynote talk at SXSW. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Ow...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Bravo BlueSky! techcrunch.com/2025/03/10/b...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

NASDAQ has fallen 12% since Trump took office and the Dow Jones Industrial average is down 6.6% www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EFr...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Loved Justin Trudeau's final speech as Prime Minister, tonight! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiAu...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

OpenAI's Noam Brown gives an interesting TED talk on how AI wil continue to improve www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG9o...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Video of French Center Right Senator, Claude Malhuret, delivering a moving speech in support of Ukraine and in favour of building up Europe's defense capabilities. With English subtitles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmDV...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Love what the Disney Imagineering team does! www.youtube.com/watch?v=enev...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Bill Buxton reminds us of the history of free trade in North America www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Setting the record straight arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Some good news. A major step forward as a direct result of the tariff folly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=02en...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The view from Team Canada / Équipe Canada www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHoZ...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

When I was in high school, I hesitated between going for a career in Computing and a career in Music. Computing won, but I still find that music is the medium I prefer when expressing what I feel. Here's another song I created to express how I feel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V-B...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Trump lies again concerning US banks not being allowed to operate in Canada. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoG0...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Love this notion of "basic crazypants analysis" to describe what analysts can do concerning Trump's policies www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdv_...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Lawrence O'Donnell interviews Bob Rae, Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations. Love his reference to "Elbows Up!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c7l...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

"Trump doesn't know what he's talking about" www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK-v...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Trump lied during his speech? What a surprise! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsvH...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

youtu.be/8peiLVFsLdw

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Love this! www.youtube.com/shorts/p7f8o...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

ACM has named Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton as the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. awards.acm.org/about/2024-t...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMns...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Pointing out Trump's lies www.youtube.com/watch?v=GanW...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This is an interesting deep dive by Ezra Klein of the New York Times into the impact of emerging AI systems. One key point that is made early in the interview is that this is the first revolutionary technology that was not the result of DOD funding. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btos...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Jen Psaki certainly knows how the press corps works. Great to see her questions about certain "reporters" that the current administration invited to attend the Zelenskyy ambush. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUby...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The message that James Dennehy sent to his team, upon being forced by the Trump administration to retire, is a stunning example of true leadership! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hua...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Canada did a cost reduction exercise that actually worked in the not too distant past. Why is DOGE failing so badly in the US? www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqqI...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Rest in peace, David Johansen www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rTV...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Wow!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Yet another scam. techcrunch.com/2025/03/02/t...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I tried using DeepSeek to generate of bio and was impressed with the quality of the results. www.linkedin.com/pulse/deepse...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Nice to discover this article on LinkedIn covering some of the key french researchers who worke in computer science, several of whom I had the distinct pleasure of working with. www.linkedin.com/pulse/french...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

This is an interesting development. techcrunch.com/2025/03/01/m...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

A great interview of Fareed Zakaria by Ezra Klein analyzing what Trump's foreign ppolicy is all about www.youtube.com/watch?v=305Z...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

A must watch interview of Antony Blinken, Secretary of State under Joe Biden's administration by Heather Cox Richardson, in the final days before the transition of power to the Trump administration. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv-e...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

At this point in time I am extremely saddened to see the country that I called home for most of my childhood could become such an authoritarian regime led by Donald Trump! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTQJ...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Analysis of Trump's actions today. The United States has lost all credibility worldwide, www.youtube.com/watch?v=11QB...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The United States have lost all credibility worldwide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNiS...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

More international reactions to today's ambush. www.youtube.com/watch?v=au-I...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments