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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

The night is getting late, and we haven't heard much back with only 10 ridings left. Here is where the model stands, my final post for the night. PQ 59 (58-61) PLQ 40 (38-41) PCQ 19 (18-19) QS 9 (9-9) CAQ 0 (0-1) #jszym_qc2026 #cdnpoli #qcpoli #qc2026

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Only 17 ridings left! Model says PQ 59 (57-61) PLQ 39 (37-40) PCQ 19 (18-21) QS 10 (9-10) CAQ 0 (0-2)

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

At 92/127 ridings, I've seen enough. I'm quite sure this is a PQ minority. The model says there's 99% chance of a PQ minority. CAQ's likelihood of getting wiped-out is increasing. PQ 57 (53-61) PLQ 41 (38-43) PCQ 19 (17-22) QS 9 (8-10) CAQ 1 (0-2) #qc2026 #cdnpoli #jszym_qc2026 #qcpoli

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Alright, we're nearly half way through. The leaders of QS, the PLQ, and PQ have all won their seats. Christine Frechette is embattled in her riding, currently neck-and-neck with the PQ candidate Jean Pellerin. PQ's hopes for a majority, always slim, are further slipping (6.7%). Things haven't […]

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Another volley, approaching 20% of the ridings called, but naturally all rather safe ones, but the expected number of seats for CAQ are slowly dropping. Currently we have an expected number of 3 seats (down 1) with a max of 5 and a min of 0. PCQ has picked up that expected seat for a total of […]

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

We've got 8/127 ridings called so far, but the projections haven't changed much as they've been called in safe ridings. Radio-Canada just announced that the next government will be a PQ government, but we were pretty sure about that even yesterday so no big surprises. #jszym_qc2026 #qc2026 […]

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@mpjgregoire I also used the qcpoli tag, but perhaps the polqc is the more active one.

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

It's election day in Quebec! Here's what my (v. simple) election model is calling for tonights results: Seats ------ PQ 56 (49-62) PLQ 41 (38-44) PCQ 18 (16-22) QS 8 (6-10) CAQ 4 (0-6) Vote Shares ------- PLQ 29% (27-30%) PQ 28% (25%-32%) PCQ 18% (18.01-18.04% lol) CAQ 12% (10%-15%) QS 12% […]

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

This is "good guy with a gun", but #AI right? "The only way to stop AI risk is more AI"

Screenshot of a website that reads "Protect Your Data From AI, With AI
In a world that runs on data, cut AI risk, strengthen cyber posture, and accelerate your business with data-centric security." A button to "Request a Demo" is present.

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

@paige I guess it applies to a lot of folks haha (I was thinking of a major political figure).

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

@paige I think I know who this subtweet is about and I'm not teelllliiinnggg :P

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 06/06/2026

I am so all-in on Montreal's big, weird ring.

It's an inexplibly big metal ring, about 7 storeys tall, smack dab in the middle of downtown Montreal

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

Hey, Louise Arbour is Canada’s new Governor General! A totally admirable person. I met her in 2009 when we both received honorary doctorates from U of Guelph. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Arbour Not a big Mark Carney fan, but well done. #cdnPoli

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Louise Arbour - Wikipedia

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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 05/05/2026

26 of the 27 EU member states use proportional systems, as well as the EU Parliament. If Mark Carney believes this is where the international order will be rebuilt, let's join them and embrace the same democratic standard.

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

RE: cosocial.ca/@jszym/1164998251945391… Thanks for the #BandcampFriday recommendations! I ended up picking up Land of Talk's album "Indistinct Conversations" at the recommendation of @arestelle . I know it's extra steps, but I get so much more joy out of using #bandcamp + #fediverse […]

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Jacques Nacouzi @jacouzi.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

À qui la rue? Aux enfants la rue! Parade des enfants de l'école Face, nouvellement déménagée sur le Plateau. Bienvenue dans notre quartier, vous nous donnez espoir! #polmtl

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

Certaines de ces fermes sont même détenues par leurs employés ! Elles méritent vraiment d'être soutenues. C'est un excellent moyen, simple et efficace, de prendre soin de soi et de sa communauté. fermeauxchampsquichantent.com #coop #cooperation #solidarity #quebec #montreal

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La ferme coopérative aux champs qui chantent – 22 weeks of fresh food from our farm

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

Vous habitez au #Québec ? Vous mangez ? Vous pouvez recevoir régulièrement un panier de légumes et d'œufs cultivés localement ! S'inscrire à un programme d'agriculture soutenue par la communauté, c'est super simple, et ça contribue à renforcer les liens communautaires ! Family Farmer vous […]

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

@MichelPatrice Je savais bien qu'ils existaient en théorie, mais j'ai été surpris de voir à quel point c'était pratique dans la vie réelle. J'ai hâte de recevoir ma première livraison cette saison !

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

Do you live in #quebec ? Do you eat food? You can get a basket of locally grown veggies and eggs on the reg! Signing-up for Community Supported Agriculture is super easy, and it helps build strong communities! Family Farmer makes it super easy, it has a map so you can find your closest drop-off […]

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Roots Music Canada @rootsmusiccanada.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The first ever Wilding Festival will take place this weekend in Chelsea, QC. An all-woman music festival is coming to Chelsea, QC, this Saturday, and it's expected to be wild. The Wilding is a music festival that was dreamt up and organized by Jessica Pearson of Jessica Pearson and the East Wind,…

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The first ever Wilding Festival will take place this weekend in Chelsea, QC.

An all-woman music festival is coming to Chelsea, QC, this Saturday, and it's expected to be wild. The Wilding is a music festival that was dreamt up and organized by Jessica Pearson of Jessica Pearson and the East Wind, an all-female Americana-Folk trio from Ontario. The festival is inspired by their new album Wilding, with part one debuting on tomorrow.

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PAIGE! @paige.canadiancivil.com · 18/02/2026

The Vox "Today Explained" podcast was a such a frustrating listen today. Zack Beauchamp ties Brazils success in rejecting authoritarianism (vs US) to pork barrel political corruption. And South Korea? Another boutique theory, this time it's citizens recognized a power grab. The bigger difference […]

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026

@b0rk it's hard to scale communities, it's (perhaps regrettably?) the direction I think things are going. Thanks for the reply.

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026

@b0rk do you or anyone else have good suggestions for alternative communities (maybe even here on Mastodon/Fedi)? Looking to end my HN addiction.

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026

Reading Yegge’s rant and the much shorter and more polished siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigu… (“AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it”), I keep coming back to this, which I published in 2020 and is sort of at the center of my thinking about everything […]

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

8/ 📖 Read the full paper 🔗 rdcu.be/e3PGD

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

7/ 🔧 What’s next? We propose stricter evaluation pipelines for any paired biological dataset and highlight the need for pLMs that truly understand protein context and generalize to out-of-distribution proteins and tasks.

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

6/ 📚 Take home messages 1. Pretrained pLMs can leak data → over optimistic PPI scores. 2. Leakage is task specific; non paired tasks may stay unaffected. 3. SqueezeProt is a new pLM that is 5x faster, no test in train. 4. Current models still fail on some real-world tasks.

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

5/ 🌍 These pLMs kind suck on generalizing to real-world tasks, data leakage or not. Both pLM based and classic models stumble on: - Human–SARS CoV 2 interaction predictions - Point mutation effects on binding affinity

A Receiver-Operator Characteristic plot of methods w/ and w/o data leakage when tested on human v. human interactions and human v. SARS-CoV-2 interactions. The human-virus interactions have AUROCs close to 0.5 whereas the human-human interactions have good performance.

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

4/ The pLM data leakage problem isn't present for all tasks. When we tested the same pLMs on protein keyword annotation (a non paired task), performance stayed stable. Leakage might be specific to paired sequence problems like PPI.

A clustered bar chart with keyword categories on the x-axis and performance on the y-axis (Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain). It shows little or no difference between models with and without data leakage.

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

3/ 🐇 We came up with a new ultra-fast pLM with no data leakage during these experiments. It's truly one of the more exciting aspects of this article in my mind. Training all these language models was tough work! That's why we created SqueezeProt, a new pLM which […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

A scatter plot showing inference speed on the x-axis and predictive performance on the y-axis. SqueezeProt-U50 is on the far right, performing 5x faster than the competition while maintaining most of the performance.

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

2/ 🚨 Data leakage turns out to be a major problem for pre-trained pLMs on some tasks. We found that existing pretrained pLMs unintentionally leak information from training data into downstream PPI tasks, inflating test scores. Data leakage can cause performance scores to increase by over 10 %!

Graph showing performance of PPIs w/ and w/o data leakage. The difference is as high as 11.6%.

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

🧵 1/ 🎉 So happy to share our latest work that I authored with my #PhD supervisor Amin Emad. While #ChatGPT and #Claude are natural language models (#llms), computational biologists have been using protein language models (pLMs) which model protein sequences. We […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

A diagram showing how PPI testing proteins are present in upstream pre-trained pLMs.

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026

@paige noooo, I'm not in Montreal on the Feb 24 😭 I'll be there at the next event!

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

When watching a presentation with a slideshow: do you like textual description of figures/data or would you rather just see the figures/data and hear the presenter describe it. #poll #presentation #slideshow

Slide with a scatter plot on the left and on the right a figure title in bold and a text description below it. The scatter plot shows log parameters on the Y axis, Release date on the X-axis, and various Open and Closed LLMs as points.

Slide with a scatter plot centered with it's bold title just above it.. The scatter plot shows log parameters on the Y axis, Release date on the X-axis, and various Open and Closed LLMs as points.

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2026

RE: social.growyourown.services/@FediFo… If you're not collaborating, checkout @libreoffice . I've used it for the last 6 or 7 years and it's rock solid. If you are collaborating, I've had great luck with @CryptPad for simple documents (a step up from Etherpad if […]

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

Happy New Year to the @coop family! Looking forward to another year of sustainable, equitable, and democratic community building.

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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @ianrogers.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/11/2025

I don't know who hung a "rue barrée" (road closed) sign between the incinerator smokestacks on Carriere, but I salute you, whoever you ate. #Montreal #NoRules #art

As described in th text, somebody hung a rue barrée roadwork sign between the smokestacks of the abandoned incinerator in Petite-Patrie, Montreal

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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 13/11/2025

Rural Liberal voters and urban Conservative voters keep getting shut out even when they show up in huge numbers. A system that rewards geography instead of voters is not a real democracy. Proportional representation would finally make every vote count.

A two panel meme from the animated show Invincible. In the first panel, the character Mark looks frustrated. Text above him reads Rural Liberals and Urban Conservatives, and text below him says So, when do we get representation. In the second panel his father Nolan points confidently at him. Text above reads First past the post and text below says That is the neat part, you do not.

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025

On this Remembrance Day, let us bow our heads thinking of, along with those who died in yesterday’s wars, the ones who will die today in today’s wars: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoi…

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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 10/11/2025

Politicians love to warn that the other side has a radical agenda. Yet, they don't seem too concerned that first past the post means they can win a majority with less than 40% of the vote. Fear alone will not fix democracy. Proportional representation will.

A four-panel meme from Star Wars Episode II showing Padmé and Anakin in a meadow. Anakin says the opposition has been taken over by extremists. Padmé smiles and asks if he will pass proportional representation so they cannot win a majority with only 40 percent of the vote, then looks concerned when he does not answer.

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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 05/11/2025

Canada’s system traps us in large big-tent parties, forcing endless infighting and floor crossings. Proportional representation would let Canadians of every kind win seats for what they believe in instead of fighting for control of one tent.

Graphic with headline reading “Big tent parties lead to big tent infighting and instability.” Text explains that Canada’s electoral system forces the entire right into one party, creating divisions and instability, and that proportional representation would let Red Tories, progressive conservatives, libertarians, and social conservatives all win fair representation without being trapped under one banner. Includes a CBC headline about MP Chris d’Entremont leaving the Conservatives because of Poilievre’s leadership style.

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025

@CraigSauve "A record number of people felt unrepresented and uninspired by the two old parties. In response, these parties ramped up their fear campaigns and called for strategic voting. But you know as well as I do that this cannot be a long-term solution: by holding our noses and voting for […]

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca: @jszym.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025

"I have said it before and I will continue to say it: calling for electoral reform in Montreal is the only viable way to ensure better democratic representation. ...I call on the people of Montreal who support this idea...to write to your elected officials and put pressure on them. Make some […]

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