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Slack's down!

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Clear eyed analysis of Deep Research from Ben Evans: www.ben-evans.com/benedictevan.... Easy to hand-wave away and retort "scaling", but if 'intelligence' = log(resources) we're still a ways away.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Interesting from the IJF: theijf.org/crombie-libe.... Obviously this is catnip for me: "Liberal leaders have failed to win a seat six times compared to PC leaders’ five since general elections began in Ontario in 1867."

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Important data from the IJF on Liberal party leadership donors given we're directly picking a prime minister. theijf.org/carney-donor...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Can we please all agree to give the next Econ Nobel jointly to Lars and Abel for actually bringing the science to the prize in economic sciences.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The books sit in an air conditioned, historic, library and don’t read the news. What do they have to be alarmed about?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting by April Lindgren on local news (un)availability in Canada: thewalrus.ca/local-news-i...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Love it! (The html for Mira Murati's new thing!)

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Great obit: blog.rossry.net/chisness/ [HT: HN]

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

JFC. Profiles in courage: - www.nytimes.com/interactive/... - www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I love how the Murdochs are global billionaires, but are so clearly Australian. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/m...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Happy to see Helen DeWitt finally getting her due.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

The masculine urge to re-do your website with only html/css.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

A little insulting to Bloc Québécois given they have more MPs than the NDP? Source: www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

As the person who wrote this - statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/08/21/w... - I enjoyed this: statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/02/10/w.... We need The Book of Basketball but for stats!

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

"Dad, why is my sister named Rose?" "Because your mother loves roses." "Thanks, Dad." "No problem, Sublime Text."

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The breakup of Australia-Hungary.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Find something you love as much as ChatGPT loves to **bold** the **important points**.

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

I get the desire for courses on AI ethics, failures, etc, but if the students taking them aren't also the student hired to do stuff with LLMs, is the course effective? Are there courses that integrate ethics etc into a hands-on: "hey, let's (sensibly) build cool (responsible) AI stuff"?

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

Best I can tell every uni has an insanely talented, professional, nice random senior member of staff who actually runs everything.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

So true: holly.witteman.ca/the-b-lane-s...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Measuring my time in the UK by the number of Coleman's bottles finished.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Has Trudeau considered recalling all Canadian hockey players? He could basically shut down the NHL.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

The betrayal of eating Turkish Delight (in Australia in the 90s) after reading about it. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Super great team doing super great work.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

How is this bloke leading in the polls? Utterly unserious. Source: apple.news/ANBIIrj1-SRK...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

If Canadian universities had a bit of vision, they would be launching a Manhattan project to poach every US-based top researcher. And the federal government would be drastically expanding tri-council funding and creating an expedited review process for those holding NSF and similar grants.

submitted 30 days ago • 106 comments

Why must the writ for an election be a Wednesday in Ontario (it's going to be some small-town Canadian thing like Ted Rogers and Galen Weston always played tennis on Tuesday, or something, isn't it!)?

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments