2000 rides on Bike Share Toronto! Biking is often the best way to get around Toronto and it's been great to see infrastructure steadily improve with more riders. This is an uplifting chart.

What if the next medical breakthrough is hidden in plain text? Causal estimates drives progress but data is limited & RCTs slow. Introducing NATURAL: a pipeline for causal estimation from text data in hours, not years. Paper: tinyurl.com/ppr29 Site: tinyurl.com/web98

The field of AI safety emphasizes AI should “do no harm.” But lethal autonomous systems used in warfare are already causing harm. How should we think about purposely harmful AI? SRI Grad Fellow Michael Zhang writes about a panel exploring this topic: uoft.me/aJh

I love how prescient Hopfield is in his seminal paper: Computational properties of use of biological organisms or to the construction of computers can emerge as collective properties of systems having a large number of simple equivalent components (or neurons). -Hopfield, 1982

the brain finetunes on synthetic data while it sleeps biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New Video: How to write an okay research paper. Reviewers all agree! Sasha Rush's papers are "reasonably structured" and "somewhat clear, despite other flaws". youtu.be/qNlwVGxkG7Q?si…

What can an 8-year-old build in 45 minutes with the assistance of AI? My daughter has been learning to code with Cursor and it's mind-blowing🤯 Here are highlights from her second coding session. In 45 minutes she built a chatbot powered by Cloudflare Developers Workers AI 👀

Automating AI research is exciting! But can LLMs actually produce novel, expert-level research ideas? After a year-long study, we obtained the first statistically significant conclusion: LLM-generated ideas are more novel than ideas written by expert human researchers.

Goodhart's law really shows up everywhere once you start noticing it

Exploring together can help us feel rooted to the city we live in. The more we understand Toronto's unique history, the more we feel connected to the people around us & grateful to everyone who came before. By learning about our city's past, we feel we have a say over its future.