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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I bought a stereo a couple of weeks back. Listening to all my old CDs. So much great music. So many memories. I forgot (in a sense) just how many New Order songs I loved.

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Writing my first ever 100% theoretical paper. How exciting!! Very glad to have @interestingmonkey.bsky.social help on this one because I do *not* know what I'm doing. I mean I think the work is sound just not sure how to write it up.

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I am starting to feel like an expert again. Particularly in grammatical inference. I really do know quite a bit about this stuff. (Writing my NSERC Discovery grant)

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Woot! Woot! The paper by Sabine and I on using language models for question generation was nominated for Best Paper at the 2025 Intelligent Tutoring Systems conference! It is so much work conducting research and writing a paper. It just feels great to have it recognized in any way at all.

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Back when I was doing my PhD, my supervisor used to call our weekly meeting the "Jason Entertainment Hour." Because I usually pretty prepared, and had something to present and/or argue. Working with him again I feel like the "Jason Entertainment Hour" is back on the air!

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I'm very excited to be working on some theoretical CS with my former PhD supervisor @interestingmonkey.bsky.social! I've been smiling ever since he answered my email with his thoughts. We work so well together! And to make a break into theory is exciting!

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I’ve packed things you people wouldn’t believe. Board game boxes warped by forgotten cola spills. I watched socks vanish beneath the flaps of sealed cartons. All those… items… will be misplaced in time, like pens beneath couch cushions. Time… to tape.

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

1st International Workshop on Smart Education in the Age of Generative AI (SEGA 2025) LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/sega... X page: x.com/SEGA25_WORKS... Workshop website: ieee-swc-2025.github.io/workshops/se...

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I know I've said this a lot but I can listen to "Echoes of the Infinite" for hours. It is like listening to my soul. It fills me with joy and sorrow, all at the same time. I honestly not sure I will ever compose anything that speaks to me personally as vividly.

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Packing is just Tetris with consequences.

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

In the grimdark future, there is only packing (and war).

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I just sneezed and Bard ran over and bit me. LOL

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I *may* have had too much Diet Pepsi today... WHEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Job offer is in! And I'm going to accept it (of course). Woohoo!

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

That's it! I'm not ordering any more Chinese food until ... checks notes ... they start commissioning compositions from me!!! FIX THE TRADE IMBALANCE!!!

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Paper accepted at the Intelligent Tutoring System conference! Huzzah!

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Why is composing so hard sometimes?

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I just had a flash of insight concerning solving trapped problem spaces. This means I probably won't falls asleep until 1 AM. LOL

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Anybody else get bored of eating everything that you normally eat, but at the same time you don't want to try anything new?

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I've never had a favorite Biblical verse before but now I do. This one speaks to me at a deep level. "learn to do good; seek justice; rescue the oppressed; defend the orphan; plead for the widow." (Isaiah 1:17)

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Started some preliminary research a new machine learning algorithm to solved trapped p-spaces. And yes the D&D player in me is like "Trapped p-spaces? What is the DC to disarm the trap?"

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I have entered the "Every time I get an email I wonder if it is about the position" phase of waiting to hear anything.

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

And now the nerves are kicking in as I realize there are many things I forgot to mention during the interview. LOL

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

2.5 hours to the most important interview of my life.

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Paper finished and in the hands of my co-author. Woohoo! It has been an exhausting and frustrating few weeks, but if we get it published it will be worth it! I'm very proud of this work and the paper.

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A big spike in listeners... sadly just bots 🙁

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

What I love about science is when results surprise. <Skynet is online> One sec, I'll be right back...

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The next time I suggest a research protocol that requires me to manually evaluated 12600 data points, I'm going to need somebody to punch me in the face.

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I asked my AI to write a question about the scope of software engineering. Its response: What is the scope of software engineering? A bit on the nose but I'll allow it. LOL

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

One by one, my stressors are being resolved. I actually don't feel as sick as I have for the past 4 weeks. It was getting really bad.

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I finished the revisions for chapter 9 tonight. I also went back and did some revisions in Chapter 1 and 3. Progress.

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Music royalties from last year: * drum rollz* About $400.

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Mark Carney is looking like he would be a good choice to LPC leader. He was the governor of the BoC during the 2008 crisis and did a great job. Also been head of the Bank of England.

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I've been listening to my music again (bad idea). Shut up brain. Look, I really like some of my pieces. But what I find is that most of music has a good idea and parts surrounded by meh. And the endings... man I need to work on my endings. I need to do a PhD in composition so I can learn more...

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

It is interesting. I feel like I'm missing something. The last time I felt this way was just before my major breakthrough during my PhD work.

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

The Cat Bard made off with two piece of chicken while I was cooking. What a cat.

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Investigating a new approach for finding optimal solutions in deceptive problem spaces. Very exciting!

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Chapter 5 and 6 revisions done. 🙂 Down to 109,975 words. Chop chop chop.

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Chapters 3 and 4 revisions done. Lots of cutting. Lots of rewording. Reordering. The new chapter 4 of Shadow in the Snow is *much* improved.

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Jason Bernard @drjasonbernard.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

It just occurred to me that I haven't re-read the Incarnations of Immortality series in well over a decade!!!

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