Top 🎵 This week:
Sweating Bullets - Remastered 2004 — Megadeth (x3)
All Said and Done — Sturgill Simpson (x3)
Peace Sells - Remastered — Megadeth (x2)
📀 TRON Ares: Divergence — Nine Inch Nails
#NowPlaying #Music
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Desert Cruiser — Truckfighters (x7)
The Bliss — Truckfighters (x4)
Can't You Hear Me Knocking - 2009 Mix — The Rolling Stones (x4)
📀 Gravity X — Truckfighters
📂 2025 - Winter
#NowPlaying #Music
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Natural Mystic (with Stephen Marley) - West Palm Beach 2025 — Stick Figure (x3)
True Love Will Find You In The End — Beck (x3)
I Don't Love You — My Chemical Romance (x2)
📀 The Black Parade — My Chemical Romance
📂 Ultimate Stick Figure
#NowPlaying #Music
Top 🎵 This week:
Bless Yourself — Jack White (x3)
Demon Cleaner — Kyuss (x3)
Dive Into The Ocean (Prod. By Alok) — Alok (x3)
📀 The Final Cut — Pink Floyd
#NowPlaying #Music
I started my Doctor of Engineering this month. Here's a posting on my path and how I got here. It certainly wasn't a straight path.
#ReinforcementLearning #AlbertaPlan #DEng #AI
blog.9600baud.net/doctoral_pat...
The audio is even better! 🤦♂️
blog.9600baud.net/audio/captch...
Seriously? Captchas are getting a bit ridiculous. Have we moved to where it's easier for computers to solve them than it is for humans defeating their entire purpose?
Just published the first release of the Alberta Framework on PyPI.
It’s a JAX-based toolkit designed for the "Alberta Plan" for AI research. Right now I'm focusing on Step 1: Meta-learned step-sizes.
pip install alberta-framework
#AI #RL #reinforcementlearning #albertaplan
Top 🎵 This week:
Keep Out Of The Storm — The Sheepdogs (x4)
No More Love — God Lives Underwater (x4)
Band On The Run - 2010 Remaster — Paul McCartney (x4)
📀 Wood and Wire — Greigg Fraser
📂 2025 - Winter
#NowPlaying #Music
As I begin my D.Eng research I'm starting with the foundations and working through the Alberta Plan steps one-by-one starting with meta-learning and online normalization.
I published a new technical post on my blog documenting a replication of Richard Sutton’s 1992 IDBD (Incremental Delta-Bar-Delta) algorithm.
#AI #RL #AlbertaPlan
Full implementation details and analysis here:
blog.9600baud.net/sutton92.html
This is a great cover of It's a Sin and the video is classic. All the nostalgia of #win95 😍
#music #ghost #petshopboys
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfMV...
Google also recently estimated that the median Gemini LLM app query produces a surprisingly low 0.03 grams of CO2 emissions), and uses less energy than watching 9 seconds of television.
#ai #environment
" For example, many enterprise on-prem compute facilities use whatever power is available on the grid, which might include a mix of older, dirtier energy sources. Hyperscalers use far more renewable energy."
In the latest issue of "The Batch" Andrew Ng presents a good evidence-backed argument that consolidating data centres is better for the environment than our current practice of many companies hosting their own infrastructure.
info.deeplearning.ai/governments-...
Prompt injection attacks are the new SQL injection attacks. Just on steroids.
The more things change the more they stay the same. What hasn’t changed is the golden rule of never trusting un-sanitized input from anything.
#AI #cybersecurity
www.darkreading.com/cloud-securi...
Top 🎵 This week:
Alone — Ben Harper And The Innocent Criminals (x4)
Confrontation — Colm Wilkinson (x3)
Come To Me (Fantine's Death) — Colm Wilkinson (x3)
📀 Les Misérables (Original Broadway Cast Recording) — Colm Wilkinson
📂 2025 - Winter
#NowPlaying #Music
The goal: Healthcare applications of RL in alignment with the Alberta Plan.
Extremely excited to start this journey!
#RL #AlbertaPlan #DEng #AIresearch
Happy to share the next step in my academic journey: I’ve officially begun my Doctor of Engineering (D.Eng) at @umich.edu Dearborn campus.
My research focuses on #ReinforcementLearning guided by the Alberta Plan for AI Research. (1/2).
The result? Direct-to-provider production orders that bypass sovereign gatekeeping.
Unless you own the keys (BYOK) or use purely Canadian-owned infra, you aren't protected.
#DataSovereignty #infosec #Cybersecurity
Great deep dive by @citizenlab.ca on this erosion: citizenlab.ca/research/can...
That law established that jurisdiction follows the corporation, not the dirt. If your provider is US-owned, the US government has legal reach into those "Canadian" servers, bypassing the transparent MLAT process.
The "Data Residency" myth in Canada is officially dead. 🇨🇦
For years, we’ve been told "servers in Toronto" means "protected by Canadian law." But residency is just a postal code; sovereignty is a technical status.
What creepy nonsense are companies up to when they have to guess your age or take your ID for AV? www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
It's that time of year again! The annual @eff.org Breachies are out:
#privacy #cybersecurity
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
I'm really curious to know whether clinicians would see this as a welcome addition to the patient experience or a hinderance.
openai.com/index/introd...
From the article: "Today, health information is often scattered across portals, apps, wearables, PDFs, and medical notes—so it's hard to see the full picture, and people are left to navigate a complex healthcare system on their own. "
It appears as if they've put appropriate controls in to protect the sensitivity of the patient data being sent to this isolated environment. Note that we are not using this at LHSC and it has not been assessed for use in Canadian healthcare to my knowledge. Just posting as a discussion point.
ChatGPT has released a chatbot specifically designed for health advice with the ability to connect patient medical records, as well as apps like Apple Health and MyFitnessPal.
I'm more excited than terrified. This isn't 80% layoff, it's huge productivity gains for your qualified engineers.
🎵 This week:
No More Love — God Lives Underwater (x5)
Manager's Special — Hermano (x3)
How Blue Can You Get — Joe Bonamassa (x3)
📀 Ten$ion — Die Antwoord
📂 2025 - Winter
#NowPlaying #Music
