Joel Adams

A neat trick for identifying exaggerated or nonsense AI opinions (both pro and con) is to replace the word "AI" (or "LLM", etc.) with a previous software advance, like "relational database" or "GUI".

How many hours do we turn the clocks back to? 1993?

Canada. Eating all the candy tonight.

❤️ 🇨🇦 Canada! 🇨🇦 ❤️ #OkayBlueJays #LetsPlayBall

Article excerpt mounted on a poster board at Munro & Associates entitled "Innovation Strikes! In-Car Microwave Now Available" by Edward Niedermeyer

Stripped down Tesla chassis with hand writing on the metal frame that reads "Too Many Parts".

Silver compact car with green and blue decals and Protean In-Wheel Electric Motor labels parked on a runway in front of an old airport terminal.

Photo of me, in a blue jacket and smiling while holding a joystick controller in the backseat of a mini-van.

Innovation trip to Detroit, 7 years ago: me driving a car from the backseat, testing EV prototypes on a runway, reviewing a Tesla teardown, and a @niedermeyer.online (article) sighting! All related to my work building autonomous and electric RVs.

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Experts-make-dumb-decisions and rich-people-look-fake should not be controversial to anyone alive in 2025.

Also a Prometheus enjoyer. I've come to accept/delight in the bewilderingly bad decisions, uncanny make-up, etc. as deliberate artistic choices, like the absurdity of book dealers carelessly smoking while handling rare books in the Ninth Gate.

Literally* every top neighbourhood list is dominated by places with residential (main floors) converted into cafes, shops, restaurants, salons, pubs, corner stores, galleries, etc. Often retaining living spaces upstairs. It's almost a defining characteristic.

*Like, actually, literally.

Need to update Toronto's Short-Term Rentals By-Law for lodged balls. www.toronto.ca/community-pe...

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars," "Star Trek," Dr. Who," or "Transformers."

Pretty sure I have the scariest engineering costume of the day.

I think this is a good assessment of all-purpose GPT chatbots, but points to where we need more nuance to describe tools using AI, LLMs, etc. It's certainly possible to create hybrid models that are limited to providing validated, accurate answers in a domain. But an all-purpose chatbot isn't that.

This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll

BALL GAME

YouTube video by Channel ZERO PUBLIC ENEMY "The Hits Just Keep On Comin" OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

Whatcha got? You GOT to do something! #justdropped @flavorflav.bsky.social youtu.be/iX6Lg8NwdWU?...

Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year.

Bleach might be my second choice, but this one literally can't be duplicated:

I take solace in the many-worlds interpretation...

I'm old enough to remember when social media wasn't just jokes about how long this game is years old. #bluejays #worldseries

If you don't know that women routinely make up 40-50%+ of Sci-Fi/Fantasy fans (including Star Trek), and viewership of major sports (NFL, NASCAR, etc.), then congratulations, you either live in your own make-believe world or are a time traveller from the 1940s.

I’m not a Trekkie but I’ve done enough basic research into the Star Trek fandom to know women basically invented it, and are why the show even continued to exist. This kind of writing is part of institutional sexism that denies women’s accomplishments and role in history and it infuriates me

I was once asked how cities should respond to businesses developing autonomous vehicles. My answer: don't ask industry for guidance, and start by imagining (and designing) roads/systems where every vehicle follows the rules. But cities have to make that choice.

I call this "the myth of out of the box thinking". Innovation thrives on constraints.

If you live in Ontario, we're privileged to still have free access to flu vaccines & Covid boosters.

Get them! I just did!

Immunocompromised/high risk can go now & everyone else can book now for appointments after Oct 28!

Get them ASAP & you'll help make the holiday season safer for everyone 💪🏻

Kah dah boh-bay.

day 2:

dodger stadium's 16,000-spot parking lot is so huge, it could fit ~10 more dodger stadiums in its place. a monument to socal's asphalt addiction more than to baseball.

meanwhile in toronto, an actual walkable, bustling city exists around the stadium

Sources and links in thread. Just another reminder that Fall is flu and COVID vaccine booster season for EVERYONE.

Barger, Varsho, Kirk lead homer barrage as Blue Jays rout Dodgers 11-4 in World Series opener Addison Barger launched the first pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history, Alejandro Kirk added a two-run homer in a nine-run sixth inning and the Toronto Blue Jays overwhelmed the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers 11-4 in Game 1.

Toronto Blue Jays pummel Los Angeles Dodgers with 9-run inning and win World Series opener 11-4.

Assorted sushi rolls on a white plate on a wooden board.

Happy United Nations Day!
Happy Blue Jays World Series Opening Win Day!
Happy Sushi Friday!
Happy Me!