When I was an undergrad at UofA, a lot of the students I hung out with and built robots with came from the farm. That's why we added hydraulics to our robot and I had to learn about and design a controller for hydraulic valve deck. Never would have happened without the farmer influence. :-)

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Super interesting quotes in that article: "Because fewer than 10 percent of those graduates pursue high-demand specialties like embedded systems, firmware, power electronics, or AI-hardware integration. That’s why employers often say we have “too many engineers, but not enough talent.” ...

“..design firm in Canada discovered this the hard way. After enforcing strict return-to-office mandate, half its engineering team left within 6 months. ..competitor, which offered flexible hybrid arrangements among other perks, hired most of them.” @drsmith.bsky.social www.ept.ca/features/the...

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

Video credit Anthony Urso #Winnipeg #Canada

With an absent CDC and mismatched 'subclade K' flu strain, experts face upcoming season with uncertainty Early data from the United Kingdom and Japan show that the H3N2 subclade K was represented in 90% of flu samples. www.cidrap.umn.edu/i... Photo: NIAID/ Flickr cc

Well, I wonder what could be behind this? Photo radar was pulled early on, but radar wouldn’t deter reckless driving or poor judgement. And there have been traffic calling measures installed in residential areas, so positive mitigations increasing. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Thank you. I think about people we have in common (likely as respected friends eg @sameo416.bsky.social @barryhunt008.bsky.social @dupuisj.bsky.social @beansproutsmom.bsky.social) and we all pay the necessary price of ethics. But that is a competitive advantage too, with eventual payback to all.

Ya, no. Don’t get me started on these parasites.

Hear Montana’s Kalispell has a discount package to encourage Canadians to visit and shop. The only way I’d consider such a trip is if the package included a signed ‘get out of jail free’ ICE pass from DHS.

BREAKING: Following Tucker Carlson's friendly interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes, Rocket Money has ended its sponsorship of Carlson's podcast. 🧵

Aggressive' tree disease discovered in #N.W.T. aspens Researcher who helped discover disease in N.W.T. says it's worth watching but not 'an imminent threat' /1 thread www.cbc.ca/news/aspen-r...

Canadian Armed Forces can now wear Indigenous-crafted poppies #Canada It’s the first year serving members can do so, after the forces changed its dress code www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Heroes doesn't wear capes. They wear a well-fitting RESPIRATOR while they teach, dance, sing, do martial arts, art, protest anti-science and fascism and treat patients. You can save lives and prevent illness too, yours and others by wearing a well-fitting FFP3 mask. Matt is a hero!

Core is that disconnect around how discordant evidence is handled. It can be reconciled, which is how science does things; or you can cherry pick, potentially in structured ways, but it's still cherry picking, which is how the various EBM / GRADE / etc variants do it - unsuitable for guidance.

Narrator: Recruiting "EBM & AI experts" would not, in fact, constitute a transdisciplinary approach.

The interdisciplinary aspect will be key though - too many EBM processes seem to operate on the basis of excluding everyone else, and then coming to a "consensus" that the EBM community should have ever more authority. The mentality exhibited here, for example, would not make for credible consensus:

The big win if AI is effective there is the possibility to move away from EBM heuristics even for quick-and-dirty front-line decisions. Key will be transdisciplinary engagement. The danger is the inverse, AI leveraged to embed EBM deeper into guidance etc, as a tool of control w/o scientific rigour.

@sameo416.bsky.social Thank you for all of your help on this, Matt. I really appreciate it. 🙏🏼

#LestWeForget #CanadaRemembers

1/6 🧵A newsletter subscriber messaged: "Yes, I get the implications. What I don’t get, specifically why in that moment when they were dealing with a strong hand, those eight Democrats broke rank and caved" Here you go...a very simple explanation:

You are only just barely engaged in satire at this point vs. simple observation.

Here is another video from the same day. This *may be* the same guy who pointed the handgun from within the car. Do you think the way his holstered sidearm looks in this might comport with the way the Sig Sauer would look?

It's a Sig Sauer P320-M17 with an added Magwell at the bottom of the grip to make it easier to slide in the extended 21-round magazine. You can tell by the unique muzzle and slide configuration at the front. The coyote tan color is another giveaway.

This fellow says the same as in your thread above.

Local woman wakes up, is wondering if anyone has 2 free or low cost tickets to Sigur Ros in Edmonton tonight for local woman and her husband, makes oatmeal.

Alberta's role in Canada's loss of measles elimination status embarrassing, former chief medical officer says Alberta accounts for 38% of Canada's measles cases this year It’s not the flex you think it is Alberta, herd immunity is tanking 😑 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Thought I would lose my mind. I had to walk out and postpone the procedures until I could come back with a scrubber.

Meanwhile this is how respiratory aerosols are captured by infectious disease researchers who understand physics.

This is literally the method they used for aerosol droplet sample collection.

Haha, true. Here's the link if anyone's wondering. It doesn't get much more Dunning-Kruger than this. "Doing science" with no idea how anything works and an ego that says you have no need to talk to real experts to find out. If you're doubtful the pandemic could really just be one giant screwup...

IMO the study where aerosols were “caught” in ziplock bags is also a contender.

If Evidence Based Medicine has a poster child, it's the 2015 Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control study claiming N95s interfere with breathing in pregnant women. Here's their setup, which they described as "simulating the actual wearing of an N95 respirator". The RCT "gold standard" 🤣

I think this one is a winner. Maybe I'm being overly optimistic but I think even kids in elementary school would probably propose something more appropriate.

goal: try to make most of day off and attend the big deal Remembrance Day ceremony downtown chaotic plan: do workout on canal, try to time things right so workout ends near monument, try not to get hypothermia during ceremony, jog home

Thinking of a nurse seeing my intense anxiety at the poor ventilation and safety standards and offering me a paper bag to breathe in.

It has come to my attention that fucko buckos don’t find the phrase fucko bucko (or the many variants) whimsical or funny and this just confirms my belief that it’s a versatile (and not ableist or otherwise problematic) insult and should be celebrated.

On the good news side, our handwashing compliance is up 0.325% year over year!

Earlier today.... 👇

Want to recognize the awesome work of the Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library, enabling the distribution of native seeds in eastern Canada, and teaching many about native plants. I've been honoured to have some interactions with them, and it always brings me hope to see. wildflowerseedlibrary.ca

🚨 I pledge to NEVER step foot in a Walmart again. If I cannot afford it or find it elsewhere, I do not need it. White people MUST take a stand. This openly hostile contempt for black people cannot be tolerated or dismissed. I am not waiting for a national strike - I am DONE. Who will join me?

I'm not even in the industry and I never fly and it's got me clenching toroidal muscles I didn't know I had.

The vast majority of Canadians agree that the COVID-19 vaccine should be free — except Conservatives: 🔴 LPC: 90% 🟠 NDP: 91% ⚜️ BQ: 79% 🔵 CPC: 44%

The entire airspace control system is designed to avoid loss of separation (which is another term for airplanes getting closer to each other than intended by design). That increase, which has been trending for a while, is a strong signal of impending collapse.

"We have loss of separation in the airspace. Those numbers are going up. More ground incursions. I have more complaints coming into the FAA from pilots who are saying that air traffic controllers are not as responsive. They seem stressed or they're not using the appropriate language..."

🚨🧵 by Vipin M. Vashishtha aka @vipintukur about the damage from Covid... "He warned early that SARS-CoV-2 could hyperactivate T-cells — the cells that drive our immune defense. This overdrive may..." Full 🧵 (see next post for links to research): threadreaderapp.com/thread/19866...

"It is shockingly common and will remain so for as long as there are no consequences." www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/artic...

This is an outstanding commentary. This is exactly why, as Métis, I reject the ‘better party’ line. “For some time I’ve been saying that the storied choice between socialism and barbarism was made exquisitely clear a good many years ago in the United States, and both major parties chose barbarism.

A charming essay by the former chair of Africana studies at Bowdoin College about the New York Times crafting elitist propaganda.