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Geek in Vancouver. Sometimes CTO / software architect. Obsessive reader. Always curious! (was @tavisrudd elsewhere)
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The tail feather shake

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Remaining RVSPs are now open for next Tue 4's Infer Vancouver event, featuring lessons learned scaling LLMs from the team at Ada, and detecting social engineering from Ian MacKinnon: lu.ma/brrgkhgv

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Osprey & Catfish at Lake Tuc-el-nuit I'd just bought a 200-600 lens and was shocked with my luck when we arrived there at sunset and found it diving right as I pulled the lens out to play.

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Same osprey at Lake Tuc-el-nuit

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Osprey at Lake Tuc-el-nuit, dripping after a failed dive

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Yoshi, my nephew's dragon, likes a warm cat belly

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WHAT. Ecuador's government recently authorized a U.S. military base on the Galápagos Islands. NO. No no no no no no noooooooo NO 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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racing along Kits beach last week

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"Prompt Engineer for hire — will travel"

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The Lions over Vancouver

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Mt Baker over Vancouver from Cypress Mountain last week

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I've got to stop messing around with Lightroom Mobile! The ai noise reduction is so much better on desktop.

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Very proud of myself for lasting a full day without googling for "crazy shit Musk and Trump did in the past hour"

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Our next Infer Vancouver event is in 3 weeks, featuring Ada's @dhariri.com and Stingray's @imackinn.bsky.social – two founders working on the forefront of building with LLMs. lu.ma/brrgkhgv

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Which crop is better?

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Some noisy sea lions in front of my mom's place two weekends back

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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

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We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless. — J. William Fulbright

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Still digesting this but it feels like the most insightful analysis of the ongoing slaughter of US democracy www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-a...

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Videos of @samjulien.com and @swyx.io's talks at Infer Vancouver / NeurIPS are live now. youtube.com/@InferVancou...

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My son's doodle today

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