Map from Flightradar24 -- spot the two conflict zones
04.03.2026 04:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Map from Flightradar24 -- spot the two conflict zones
04.03.2026 04:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Life and evolution never cease to amaze…
01.03.2026 17:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Reflex robot shoveling snow
24.02.2026 05:38 — 👍 54 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 6Very cool! In practice, I suspect that the tasks and situations that lines-people need to deal with have a really heavy tail, e.g., dealing with an errant cow near the lines on a snowy day together with a weird tree branch and an limited range bucket.
23.02.2026 22:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A list of robot benchmarks and datasets and some notes on them! A quick blog post to give some color to my last few posts on how robot policy evaluation is done
Benchmarking robotics is an interesting topic with still no good answers. open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
🚨The most important graph in the world has another year of data, and it doesn't look good!🚨
NASA CERES satellites measure how much sunlight Earth absorbs and how much heat is radiated back to space.
The difference is heat accumulation, which has more than tripled!
It's somewhat ironic that the part of the brain whose "wiring" is AFAIK fairly well known, remains poorly understood in so many other ways. I was inspired for many years by the James Albus CMAC model from the early 1970s. Maybe we'll know more in the coming years / decades.
18.02.2026 06:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Every few months, I write an updated, idiosyncratic guide on which AIs to use right now.
My new version has the most changes ever, since AI is no longer just about chatbots. To use AI you need to understand how to think about models, apps, and harnesses. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...
Not ai not cgi - real robots
16.02.2026 22:44 — 👍 21 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0"OH but they cant do anything useful" here's the same robot building its own actuators
16.02.2026 22:46 — 👍 58 🔁 10 💬 4 📌 3Let’s see, which clean energy technology holds the most promise?
16.02.2026 22:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Favourability of the United States now sits at a record low — second only to Russia.”
16.02.2026 21:48 — 👍 94 🔁 52 💬 5 📌 6
How Canada and allies can stand up to Trump and other great-power bullies
The latest from the Globe's business commentary, by Fen Osler Hampson, Tim Sargent: www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
Want to learn about the latest in robotics research? Like, the real cutting edge, right from researchers? In addition to our youtube channel, I post notes and information about new RoboPapers episodes on Substack here: robopapers.substack.com
16.02.2026 03:08 — 👍 20 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
One on left is a black dog and above it the words “Reality”. Below it is “I chased a squirrel” One the right is a black dog and above it says “LinkedIn”. Below it says, Proud to announce that I effectively executed a rapid-response squirrel displacement strategy to mitigate potential yard intrusions. Humbled by the unwavering support of my family and local stakeholders. This experience reinforced the importance of vigilance, ownership, and continuous improvement. Looking forward to scaling this impact in future engagements.
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11.02.2026 12:10 — 👍 4382 🔁 1170 💬 69 📌 98nice blog post about a humanoid robotics startup failure: ruixu.us/posts/six-th...
11.02.2026 14:04 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Carbon is the New Metal. Will Canada Compete?
Alberta, Canada are a global leader in the emerging advanced materials industry, but could be eclipsed by USA and China without more investment and policy support.
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/carbon-is-...
An Economic Model for Compensating Data Producers One of the controversies over Copilot, related to but distinct from concerns about the model spitting out copyrighted data, is a feeling that large corporations (MSFT and OpenAl) are exploiting the open source work of developers and using it extract concentrated profits. The same could be said about GPT-3 being trained partially on fanfiction books, or for that matter about models being trained on human feedback, for which workers are paid near-minimum wage. I think this is a real and important concern, especially when considered as part of an overall trend for Al progress to concentrate wealth, increase inequality, and in the long run automate labor. Zooming very far out, what is happening macroeconomically is that distributed human labor is being used to train Al models by large, centralized actors, who concentrate the resulting profits while in the long run making the human labor obsolete. It seems like the default trajectory is for one of the following things to happen:
This older piece from Anthropic's CEO on developing a creator-compensation economic model is incredible to see. Disagree with some things, but it's fantastic to see this level of thinking at the intersection of ethics and profit.
Source: www.courtlistener.com/docket/69058...
Talks from the World Models Workshop, happening at MILA in Montreal!
04.02.2026 07:20 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Looks very interesting. Any chance that it will be streamed?
03.02.2026 22:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Looks like people being subservient to the machines 😟I have to say that I’m not yet impressed by the success and (in)efficiency of efforts to slowly handle the long tails of various tasks by collecting ever more data.
29.01.2026 07:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1💯. Idea: incentivize more visible advertising of existing charging infrastructure. I rented an EV in mainland Greece (def very low on EV adoption) and without the right apps installed, you would think it was a charging desert. But in reality it really wasn’t an issue. Same here in BC, TBH.
27.01.2026 05:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And 🇨🇦 is paradoxically all-in on LNG for now. Hope to hear more about electrification from @mark-carney.bsky.social in the coming months. Skate to where the 🏒is going! I do understand the need to deal with a sea of disinformation.
27.01.2026 05:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0*problematic in US & Canada. I believe much of the rest of the world will move past 50% sakes within 3 years, much like Norway, China, Nepal, and Ethiopia. Captured oil tankers and related security concerns will surely only speed this process.
27.01.2026 04:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Even with NMC and LFP lithium ion, EVs offer better lifetime costs due to much lower running costs. But it’s clear that the upfront sticker costs are problematic. Some car models in China apparently have selling price parity with ICE. But sodium ion will be a further game changer!
27.01.2026 04:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Kudos to scientists (regardless of party affiliation) who invest their time & effort in politics. Thank you, Kirsty.
27.01.2026 03:51 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My enthusiasm is real but nevertheless tempered by experience, having done some extensive travel through Paris with Velib and electric Velib four months ago. Rue de Rivoli is great, but the rest still puts one close to plenty of cars. Not an Utrecht just yet, but going in the right direction!
27.01.2026 03:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Canada sent so many dedicated young people into the hellfire of Kandahar to help the United States.
Now they ridicule us.
JD Vance says he is tired of our "sob stories".
Trump says they never needed us.
Never again, America, Never again.
Time to start ditching US treasury bonds again. Only took a 3.3 billion divestment to remove the tariffs last time.
A primer: Treasury bonds are loan agreements. Buyers are lending money to the issuer. Selling is basically "calling in the loan."
