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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Partial and (only slightly) more serious update on this IEEE just sort of choosing to not respond or acknowledge so that's cool. They must be busy encouraging more plagiarism so I get it

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Rob Hyndman @robjhyndman.com · 29/07/2026

We're hiring in statistics, econometrics, ML, statistical computing, data vis, etc. It's a great place to work, which is why I've been here for more than 30 years! Details at bit.ly/3Tld8UV. Level is roughly equivalent to Assistant/Associate Prof in North America. #stats #datascience #rstats

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

per usual, this is a pizza account. Vaguely New Haven-ish. Blood orange cheddar, mozzarella, ricotta, squash blossoms (all obtained from the farmers market). Olive oil, salt, pepper, lemon zest

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Today I officially became an academic* of our times: a pretty clear plagiarism case of one of my preprints turned into someone else's conference submission. Truly blessed that my work has *finally* been recognized and appreciated! *I'm no longer in academia

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"What if a cocktail but it's pizza?" Dolce provolone, whiskey barrel smoked cheddar, cherries, orange and lime zest. then topped with a whiskey, bitters, citrus, and sugar glaze.

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Tonight, the dough cooperated. Purple kholrabi, yellow squash, dolce provolone, olive oil. Finished with dill, korean pepper flakes, tallegio, and pear white balsamic vinegar.

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

we all know by now what this account is all about purple kholrabi, yellow squash, spring(early summer?) onions, fruilano, tallegio, celery salt, korean red pepper flakes. All on a particularly uncooperative dough (which is why we pivot to pans, kids)

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

One of the most delightful parts of this map is you can see the terminal layout of Logan airport.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

you can work out a lot of the problems with LLMs just from sort of intuition and a rough familiarity with how to run a PCA

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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

In 2019, scientists velcro'd 3D glasses to European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) They didn't do this just to make them look cool as fuck, but in order to study their vision. Using a 3D theatre made for the cuttlefish, they were able to test if cuttlefish have stereo vision (they do!)

A European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) wearing a pair of red and blue 3D glasses. They look cool as fuck. Their arms are reaching out and they have a sandy striped pattern

A European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) wearing a pair of red and blue 3D glasses swimming just above the ground. They look very cool. They have a yellow sandy beige colour.

A European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) wearing a pair of red and blue 3D glasses sitting on the ground. Their two centre arms are raised and reaching back while the other limbs rest on the ground. They have a grey colour with brown spots. They look extremely cool.

A European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) wearing a pair of red and blue 3D glasses reaching for a projection of a shrimp. They look pretty cool. They have a sandy brown colour.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/04/2026

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

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UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers

A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Going back to the moon is a delight for humanity and, maybe someday if Pan Am comes back, me personally. *fingers crossed* (rockets and space and moon visits are so cool)

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

first of all: this sounds super neat second of all: damn, I missed my chance to claim CRAN real estate with "weird"

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Also this is clearly fiction and a superpower: someone can *think* in LaTeX

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I like to read comics to disconnect. And then the new (Marvel) Ultimates goes and throws some LaTeX typesetting in the proper orientation for the character but backwards for the reader and I'm now just really stressed this won't compile correctly. I am not having a good time right now!

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

1/ Per occasional and sporadic reminder, this is a pizza account. In the last 8 days, I made 20 pizzas, 13 of them on Friday the 13th. All of them a regionally specialized style of Massachusetts: the south shore bar pie. Let's take a look at most of them, specific pizzas in the thread

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

We know what this account is all about.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Periodic reminder that this is a pizza account. I don't make the rules.

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

We know what this account is about I do not need to remind you (but I will)

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

@fishtopher.bsky.social has great advice. I gave today to Annex Cat Rescue (annexcatrescue.ca). They do wonderful work. They helped a beautiful singing (screaming) lion find a home and helped me find my best (screaming) little buddy. Cat tax paid below.

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

There has to be a better name for this

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Fascinating deploy story (I hope?). We launched a HR policies chatbot and I think some of the most extensive work was done on intent detection to prevent these cases below. It wasn't easy! It's a hard problem!

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Gavin Cleaver @gavincleaver.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

The stats behind the Chinese transition to renewables are absolutely staggering (300 nuclear plants of energy generation created per year!). Actually we do have the solution to carbon emissions, and the economics are now undeniable. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

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China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics

The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Occasional reminder that this is actually a pizza account South shore bar style (45% hydration, 10% oil). Di Napoli tomatoes, scarmoza, nduja

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

For more than 9 years, I have remained irrationally angry that Dunkin' Donuts does not exist in Canada

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

*slaps roof of powerpoint* you should see how many slides this machine can cram into 60 minutes (the answer, currently, is 160 and likely to go up)

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

A friend's dad was the fire fighter supervising pyro at Fenway Park for The Rolling Stones (2005?). Got us in, last minute, for free. Basically at the stage. Turned around and saw, if I recall correctly, that Doug Flutie and Arnold Schwarzenegger had worse seats than 2 broke college kids

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

🚨 JOB KLAXON 🚨 We're hiring a software engineer on our product development team. This role helps take the models and data feeds and then them into products/integrations for our users. If you have questions, please reach out. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

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St. Michael's Hospital hiring Software Engineer DSAA DataSci Product Development in Toronto, Ontario, Canada | LinkedIn

Posted 4:57:32 PM. The Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA) team at Unity Health Toronto (UHT) is a Machine…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

On top of that, every year since 2016 (barring 2020) around July 6, we visit Indie Ale House (not on bluesky) because that's the first place we visited on arrival. I used to add it to the same Twitter thread every year. But I deleted that nonsense. So continues the tradition of Indie Ale House

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Today, American independence day (and nearly 9 years to the day I came to Canada), I will take the oath to become a Canadian citizen. By swearing allegiance to King Charles Someone at immigration thought this would be funny (I think it's funny too)

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Happy Canada Day to everyone, even the snowbirds and hosers

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Come join our team! We're looking for someone to join us to help build up and support our on-prem (and eventually hybrid) platform(s) infrastructure. We've included a lot of the tech we currently use in the job call. Please reach out if interested www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

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St. Michael's Hospital hiring DSAA System Administrator DataSci Integration and Governance in Toronto, Ontario, Canada | LinkedIn

Posted 10:57:46 AM. Unity Health Toronto, comprised of Providence Healthcare, St. Joseph's Health Centre and St…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

a question mark changes the response. truly incredible

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

it's actually a very bad thing that we can "prompt engineer" bad responses

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

incredible citations. keep it up.

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

For the Monday crowd: we're hiring! We're looking for a sysadmin/platform dev person to join the team to help support all the tech we use to develop and deploy data science solutions across our hospitals www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

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St. Michael's Hospital hiring DSAA System Administrator DataSci Integration and Governance in Toronto, Ontario, Canada | LinkedIn

Posted 10:57:46 AM. Unity Health Toronto, comprised of Providence Healthcare, St. Joseph's Health Centre and St…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Toronto pizza has gotten real good with a lot of options in the last few years and I love it

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

We're hiring! We're looking for a sys admin/platform dev type person to join the team. Lots of cool tech we use listed here (and some other cool tech, like XNAT, is not) If you have questions, please reach out! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

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St. Michael's Hospital hiring DSAA System Administrator DataSci Integration and Governance in Toronto, Ontario, Canada | LinkedIn

Posted 4:58:40 PM. Unity Health Toronto, comprised of Providence Healthcare, St. Joseph's Health Centre and St…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

As a Derek also from New England that's also on vacation this week almost strictly for the purposes of sorting out long overdue personal items and errands: ouch.

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

honestly I like the sound of mean square blunder more than mean square error

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

weird way of spelling data collection platform

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

What does one do with left over tteokbokki? Pizza. half mashed potato + caciocavallo, half tteokbokki topped with stracciatella post bake

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

We had the pleasure of hosting a data scientist from Sahlgrenska (Sweden). Anna spent time shadowing how we bring healthcare ideas to deployment. She spent time with us during a particularly interesting period: redeployment after massive transformation (new EPR) sahlgrenskaliv.se/ai-i-praktik...

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AI i praktiken: erfarenheter från Unity Health i Toronto | Sahlgrenskaliv

Under en månads tid var Anna Rosén, data scientist på kompetenscentrum AI, på besök på Unity Health i Toronto för att aktivt ta del i hur de jobbar med AI inom vården och hur de använder olika lösning...

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Derek Beaton @derek--beaton.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

PARQUET Please Again, I Request that you Quickly and withoUt delay sEnd me any Thing but an excel file

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