My friend, Dan Breznitz, begins talks about innovation by asking “What exactly do we want from innovation?”
I follow up with “Who gets to be part of the “we” in that conversation?”
Here’s our pal, Tom Goldsmith, offering a good answer to both.
You should fill this out, if for no other reason than to try to figure out what your own thoughts here are
Brief fun survey from Jessica, Andrew & myself:
If you are a faculty member, research scientist, postdoc, or senior Ph.D. student in any area of science, please take five minutes and fill it out. We’ll share the results widely along with some reflections.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Couldn’t possibly the current head of Colleges Ontario
May issue, before the complete split of P&P
And posing a good question is hard in basic science not because we don’t know what good questions are (though in emerging fields that can be a constraint), but because a good question is one that can be answered definitively with data that can be realistically obtained.
The hardest part of science is posing the right question, not answering it.
Concluding with, and using it as the header image, the digamma art after you were talking about the Gamma distr the other day on here 🤌🤌
You're a rent seeker It's an economist insult. It's devastating. You're devastated right now.
Last word: History of science exists. Philosophy of science exists. Science and technology studies exist. There is no excuse for writing about science in complete and utter oblivion about vast scholarship that has produced a lot of knowledge and understanding about what science is and how it works.
Huge result here and the CA jury still deliberating. The idea that social platforms are defective products is going to pick up a lot of steam: www.theverge.com/policy/89991...
Dr. Herb Risotto PhD 🇵🇸 @MildCuthbert My son just looked at the television and said "Daddy, do you think these rioters will register to vote?" He's a 46 year old Vox journalist and I hate him so fucking much.
All the Saxon Musk posting reminds me of one of the all-timers
I'm going to email you something about this....
Anthropic doing what it does best: hype this as large-scale qualitative study.
Qual research is not evaluated by scale but by depth, context, and human interpretation. Stop assuming that “hand-wavey-ness” is a qual problem just because qual work doesn’t look like large-N quantitative analysis.
What if in 20 years an actor named LeBron B. James comes along and people spend weeks arguing about whether him or Michael B. Jordan made better films
Anti-”compute” feels like a brave stance to take at UWaterloo
An excellent reflection on Smith and his misrepresentation for political purposes from @lindsaytedds.bsky.social
deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/p...
Wing flavour?
me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58
… what?!
Oh. It gets worse.
“The Globe…asked the company for clarity on why it took two days to relay its evidence to the RCMP. The company did not immediately respond.”
Probably busy trying to find something big enough to cover their asses.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Evan Soloman ( @evansolomon.bsky.social the Federal Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation) needs to respond to this.
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Here's a 2024 letter from Danielle Smith to Justin Trudeau complaining about federal immigration limits affecting Alberta.
www.alberta.ca/system/files...
#Alberta #abpoli #Canada #cdnpoli
At some point the “one size fits all” cliché becomes an argument against policymaking, period. If every single instance of a social problem is irreducibly unique and special, what’s the point of trying to address it in aggregate?
I’ll probably try once this project is wrapped - I’m really curious to see what else I can do with the project folders too.
So, switched to Sonnet and the max account. These little robots have been chugging away on some (allowable) scraping tasks for me all day and are saving me infinity headache.
Thank you!
i hope he runs though so he can destroy rahm emmanuel's career on stage or something
Some of us would get rejected pre-submission - so depends on how fast you can type in your terminal
That being said, it also did really great work very quickly! I just need to play some more to figure out what settings etc. might balance everything … definitely going to switch to sonnet though, ha.
Pro account - specifically to get some sense of what usage might be like - gave it a series of tasks that was also going to be very token intensive.
I wouldn’t say I was setting it up to fail, but did want to understand what usage might be like before using the max acct I have access to.
