@thecrashcourse.bsky.social "futures of AI" first episode is out and is confirming my fear about the series when I first heard about it. Why are bigger channels (Wired was another one) bringing on non AI experts to talk about AI? An important lesson pick your AI gurus more carefully sheesh

Why on earth is emailing around an Excel spreadsheet still considered a viable means of organization and project management in 2025??

@notion.com i really want to use notion as a replacement for Word/Google docs. Stopping me is the lack of control of how a page is formatted when exporting a PDF. Esp. important is the need for documents that look like they came from Word/GDocs: removing title, DB properties, footers, etc.

I’m going through chemotherapy again (ugh), and one side effect this time is tinnitus. I learned it can happen when the brain fills in for damaged auditory nerves—generating sound where input is missing. Not unlike imputation, or how multimodal models handle absent signals. Bug or feature?

Gaussian Processes are not ML "things". This is akin to saying Normal distributions are ML -- in fact, it IS almost literally saying this -- which is silly, because they existed before ML was a thing. Why care? When viewed as ML, people incorrectly assume it must fit into the "train/test" modality.

Aug 11-14, 2025: Accelerate is back at the University of Toronto this summer. Join us for 4 days of talks, workshops and poster sessions on AI, automation, and the future of materials discovery. Early-bird registration and our call for abstracts are now open: accelerate25.ca