I’m keen to adopt an iPad first approach. This MacStories article is a good primer and motivator www.macstories.net/stories/t…
Microposts
The long nightmare of the 24-hour internet outage is over…
For awhile now I’ve been meaning to get serious about automation on iOS. The Siri Shortcuts Field Guide from @macsparky is a great, comprehensive introduction. While taking the course, I built a good dozen useful shortcuts and have many ideas for more.
Ed Harcourt’s album Beyond the End has been great headphone music for at work 🎶 itunes.apple.com/ca/album/…
Fun to be back ⛷
#CozyLife
Another Christmas dinner
Good advice from a philosopher on how to disagree constructively:
Many of my best friends think that some of my deeply held beliefs about important issues are obviously false or even nonsense. Sometimes, they tell me so to my face. How can we still be friends? Part of the answer is that these friends and I are philosophers, and philosophers learn how to deal with positions on the edge of sanity.
Wednesday, December 26, 2018 →
The Barchef project is delicious
Out for a Christmas stroll
The Kano computer is a great product. Fun and easy to build with lots of good built in software.
Merry Christmas
A quiet, snowy run today.
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Preparing the tree
Here’s some “behind the scenes” geospatial analysis I used in a recent @PsephoAnalytics post. This was a good excuse to experiment with the sf #rstats 📦 which makes this much easier than my old workflows
Our predictions for the recent election in Toronto held up well. We were within 6%, on average, with a slight bias towards overestimating Keesmaat’s support. Now we’ll add more demographic richness to our agents and reduce the geographical distribution of errors www.psephoanalytics.ca/2018/11/r…
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 →
Sean Carroll’s Mindscape podcast is one of my new favourites 🎙
Seems like something to strive for these days:
it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence
Interested in analytics and transit planning? I’m looking for an Analyst to help Metrolinx generate and communicate evidence for project evaluation ca.linkedin.com/jobs/view…
Raising funds for pancreatic cancer research by throwing axes. Great fun!
Fascinating to think of creating cognitive scaffolding for elephants aeon.co/essays/if…
We’ve completely retooled our approach to predicting elections to use an agent-based model. Looking forward to comparing our predictions to the actual results tonight for the Toronto election!
Found the exact spot we first met! Who knew it would lead to this
Cold medication
Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark is a fascinating book on an important topic. AI’s implications for society are profound and require significant debate. This book is a start. 📚
I appreciate innovation in beer, but this one went too far for me.
Saturday, September 29, 2018 →
Great fun at the #fivepeaks Earth Run in the Rouge
Saturday, September 22, 2018 →
Warming up at Balsam Lake Provincial Park
Thursday, September 13, 2018 →
We had fun meeting the author Dav Pilkey and getting a signed copy of Dog Man. I really appreciated his patience with spending several hours talking to kids and signing books. 📚
