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Director, Research & Innovation, Actua - Canada’s leading youth STEM organization. Co-Director, Shift Insights. Senior Fellow, Munk School. MIT PhD. STEM. Innovation. Ethics. Skills. Space. JAWS. Running. Chronic napping. 🇨🇦 www.shiftinsights.ca
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Morning run: 2/10. Not recommended. 🥵

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If by being dragged in we mean gleefully dove in head first, then sure.

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Because most of them are unprincipled, opportunistic cowards? theconversation.com/why-corporat...

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“I can think of nothing more perilous to American democracy right now than going to war.” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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Once more with feeling

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12k run 2 hours of gardening 5k hike 10 minute swim in the river 3 popsicles That’s a good day.

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Councillor Tierney recommends “police use drones to investigate collisions and reopen roads sooner to avoid traffic gridlock in Ottawa.” I recommend building better public transit to reduce traffic and have police actually enforce traffic laws to rescue collisions. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

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It’s political economy, all the way down. Underneath that it’s heuristics.

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The Ontario Science Centre 1 year later: The cost of a new site has escalated, its opening date has been pushed back, there is no sign of a temporary location, and the old building’s roof appears intact. #OnPoli By the superb Canadian Press team globalnews.ca/news/1125207...

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I think often about a guy who asked me to read a paper that was mediocre at best. Him: Don’t worry about the writing. I’ll run it through ChatGPT later. Me: It’s not the writing I’m worried about. It’s the lack of clarity in the thinking. I was not asked to read the revised version.

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“When artificial intelligence is used to diagnose cancer or automate soul-crushing tasks that require vapid toiling, it makes us more human and should be celebrated. But when it sucks out the core process of advanced cognition, cutting-edge tools can become an existential peril.”

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Philosopher Helen De Cruz has died.

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“The two eateries could soon use an AI-powered system to recommend or upsell menu items.” How about: Would you like a side with that? Now give me $10 million for my proprietary algorithm.

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Since we’re all revisiting 2003, just thought I’d mention that Hans Blix is still kicking at age 96. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Blix

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After age 50, just walking around is equivalent constant micro-dosing.

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Since we’re all reacting to the MIT study about cognitive effects of using ChatGPT/LLMs for essay-writing, can we take to heart the study’s authors’ plea to avoid using certain language to describe the results? www.media.mit.edu/projects/you...

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The techno-utopianism surrounding AI replacing human labor obscures the structural stagnation of late capitalism. Our essay of the week argues that the future of work depends on who controls machines and to what ends. By ‪@abenanav.bsky.social‬ on ‪@versobooks.bsky.social‬ blog buff.ly/eUba5Rq

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If a robot would like to take my job for the afternoon, I could really use a nap.

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There are 10 kinds of people in the world ...

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LLMs are less like Jeopardy contestants (who “win” if they get the right answer) and more like Family Feud contestants (who “win” if they guess the most popular answer).

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When a consent form for a 6 question survey runs 3 pages, you’re doing ethics clickwrap. Do IRBs not see that they’re making consent less, not more, informed and meaningful by requiring all this?

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When I was in elementary school (1970s-80s), the Very Smart People™️ realized that computers were going to be big. So they started teaching my cohort (the “gifted” kids) binary. I still barely know how computers work, but I can write birthdates in binary. This has yet to prove useful in my career.

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Yeah I’ll bet it is

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