"(Here in Canada) oil and gas, which is largely foreign-owned, largely U.S.-owned, aren’t doing their part. (Instead)...increasing our emissions and ...demanding that Canadian taxpayers pay the bill for cleaning up the pollution they cause and building pipelines they won’t risk their own money on.”
A unitree h1 (2023 version) just broke the human speed record for the 1500 meter run.
This is a huge milestone for humanoid robots. Capabilities have advanced really fast. The capabilities of the hardware that is already being scaled are nowhere close to tapped out.
Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen 🇨🇦 after return from beyond the Moon, a beautiful grateful short speech. #CanadaStrong #UnCanadaFort #MerciCanada #ViveLeCanada
AI finally lets us see Raphael's The School of Athens the way Raphael obviously intended it, illustrating the delicate dance and subtle conflicts between Plato and Artistotle.
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Global solar additions reached record 511 GW [613 GWp with 1.2 Wp/W,ac ratio] in 2025, says IRENA www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/02/g... - and much more ahead: doi.org/10.1016/j.en... ; doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...
Brent Crude now at USD $116/barrel. Anyone know the current price of sunlight, wind or water? 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 oilprice.com
Worth reading — a compilation of climate records being broken. The media is the message — keep climate in the public conversation.
Interesting and promising. I’d also gladly choose an algo feed that has some bias towards good news and positive sentiments.
My most popular Sora video was “elaborate regency romance where everyone is wearing a live duck for a hat (each duck is also wearing a hat), a llama plays a flute, prestige drama”
I am not sure why OpenAI has decided their compute has more valuable uses & is discontinuing Sora. Really a mystery.
What do people mean when they talk about world models for robots? Why are world models so exciting?
New blog post talking about the ~3 kinds of world models, what they do and why they matter:
itcanthink.substack.com/p/will-world...
So true! And there’s still room for a corollary 🤣
The Associated Press getting on board.
"The war in Iran is exposing the world’s reliance on fragile fossil fuel routes, lending urgency to calls for hastening the shift to renewable energy."
Flowering cherry or prune tree
Spring has arrived in Vancouver (goodbye atmospheric river)!
One week left to apply to the Reinforcement Learning Summer School (Milan, 3-12 June 2026).
Don't miss this opportunity to dive deep into RL foundations and learn about the most recent applications!
rlsummerschool.com/application/
Feeling overwhelmed by all the recent developments in video understanding? What used to require dozens of modular computational workflows involving SLAM, feature tracking, optical flow, camera calibration, multiview geometric constraints, and resnet backbones is now...
(1/3)
"For sale: metaverse, never used."
I made a video about fascism in America.
Not as an insult. As a clinical diagnosis -->
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDf2...
The methodology employed in this study demonstrates a comprehensive approach to addressing the research question; however, the analysis could delve deeper into the underlying assumptions and limitations to enhance its robustness. 🤣
Map from Flightradar24 -- spot the two conflict zones
Life and evolution never cease to amaze…
Reflex robot shoveling snow
Very cool! In practice, I suspect that the tasks and situations that lines-people need to deal with have a really heavy tail, e.g., dealing with an errant cow near the lines on a snowy day together with a weird tree branch and an limited range bucket.
A list of robot benchmarks and datasets and some notes on them! A quick blog post to give some color to my last few posts on how robot policy evaluation is done
Benchmarking robotics is an interesting topic with still no good answers. open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
🚨The most important graph in the world has another year of data, and it doesn't look good!🚨
NASA CERES satellites measure how much sunlight Earth absorbs and how much heat is radiated back to space.
The difference is heat accumulation, which has more than tripled!
It's somewhat ironic that the part of the brain whose "wiring" is AFAIK fairly well known, remains poorly understood in so many other ways. I was inspired for many years by the James Albus CMAC model from the early 1970s. Maybe we'll know more in the coming years / decades.
Every few months, I write an updated, idiosyncratic guide on which AIs to use right now.
My new version has the most changes ever, since AI is no longer just about chatbots. To use AI you need to understand how to think about models, apps, and harnesses. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...
Not ai not cgi - real robots
