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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Going forward, a programming language optimized for analyzability beats one optimized for human ergonomics.

Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Great article from The Argument on the broken state of math education in America and how to improve. Also applies to Canada. www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-great-...

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The great American math collapse

We've erased two decades of progress in math.

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Ken Acks @costbenefitkmaacks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The great American math collapse - by Kelsey Piper www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-great-...

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The great American math collapse

We've erased two decades of progress in math.

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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 01/03/2026

the us and israel attacked iran. why now and what comes next? i break down the decision, the risks of escalation, and what to watch.

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The Attack on Iran — Why Now? | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer

YouTube video by TED

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I think this alone could be enough to make a site of data journalism pencil. But beyond this, one thing AI coding is extremely good at is generalizing special case code into generalizable tools. So I think a data journalism organization would quickly see compounding efficiency gains.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

But I think a lot of the work that bogged down production that mostly involves the process of getting software written and to run will take far less time. This means a few things. First you can get more articles from a data journalist is a month. 2/

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Yes. I should be far more precise because reading what I wrote is not what I meant. I do not mean to say you can now take a journalist or opinion writer and make them a data journalist by having LLM add data to their argument. I think this will happen and it will be bad. 1/

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

If I were a journalism entrepreneur I would be thinking a lot about data journalism right now. AI has just made it dramatically easier and faster to collect, analyze, and present data. Including implementing creative presentations; not just conventionalb charts.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

It's very frustrating that there's a movement that has had decades long success at reducing testing from math education in the US and Canada and not only is there barely anyone resisting, barely anyone knows the movement exist.

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Michael Geist @mgeist.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

“What began as chants has crossed into intimidation. What is excused as advocacy now routinely crosses into harassment, disruption and outright antisemitism, playing out openly from places like the Eaton Centre to university campuses across the country." nationalpost.com/opinion/cana...

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Harley Finkelstein: Canadian Jews are being targeted simply because they are Jewish

Celebrations of Jewish life that have nothing to do with Israel are being disrupted as the nation stands idly by

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National Post @nationalpost.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Celebrations of Jewish life that have nothing to do with Israel are being disrupted as the nation stands idly by, writes Harley Finkelstein nationalpost.com/opinion/cana...

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Harley Finkelstein: Canadian Jews are being targeted simply because they are Jewish

Celebrations of Jewish life that have nothing to do with Israel are being disrupted as the nation stands idly by

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I am with you that’s a real possibility. I’m not good at predictions. But it it does get built then those saying not that it will never be built will look silly.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

This third way is embarrassing no matter what happens: if the pipeline gets built, they enabled something they claim to oppose. If it doesn’t, they were conning Canadians who believe in resource development.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Liberals need to pick a lane. Either oppose the deal like Guilbeault, or argue a pipeline would actually be good.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

But the “genius” defense amounts to “don’t worry, we’re lying to Canadians who think resource development is key to economic recovery.” Which is exactly what Poilievre will say if the pipeline doesn’t materialize.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

They just disagree on whether that makes Carney incompetent or a genius who traded a fantasy for real concessions on carbon pricing.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Ron McKinnon praised the deal because it got “Danielle Smith’s government on board with climate change initiatives,” not because he thinks a pipeline is coming.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Poilievre says no pipeline will actually get built. Multiple senior Liberals believe the same thing. Ross Belot calls it “the most useful imaginary pipeline in Canadian history.”

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Strange bedfellows on the pipeline MOU: Poilievre and progressive Carney defenders are making the exact same prediction from opposite directions. 🧵

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

It does not help to invest more into education when that investment is using the wrong techniques. In fact, fixing curriculum is one of the cheapest interventions available.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I hope there is more and more mainstream reporting on math education. And that it moves into the actual details of evidence based research of pedagogy.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

The latter just works. And it out performs the former on standardized testing. This is a big part of the underlying motivation to get rid of standardized testing.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Huge parts of the world have shifted over to inquiry-based learning or constructivist mathematics or just a math curriculum focused on Big Ideas. This is in contrast to a pedagogy of gaining skill fluency through deliberate practice of using standard algorithms taught through direct instruction.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

It was great to hear @dkthomp.bsky.social talk about the decline in math education on Plain English. One thing they did not discuss is the way pedagogy and curriculum changes could be a cause. 🧵

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 17/11/2025

Some years ago LA upzoned a single family area next to the Expo/Bundy station. 20 homeowners sold their property at huge profits to developers and now they’re turning into 600 new apartments. Hopefully we’ll see projects like this all over the state in coming years now that SB79 has legalized them.

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Vertical construction underway for trio of apartment buildings near Expo/Bundy Station

Just south of Expo/Bundy Station in Sawtelle, the arrival of two orange tower cranes are the latest sign of progress on the construction of a trio of developments from Carmel Partners.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

And to create these tasks people need to have the mental encodings for them. And the most reliable way to acquire the mental encodings for these tasks is to learn how to do the tasks. Really, this is the only reliable way we know how to create these encodings. 2/2

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

There is an educational philosophy that believes there is no value in kids learning how to do mathematical tasks that a computer or calculator can do. What this philosophy misses is that we need people who can create these mathematical tasks. 1/2

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

“That 4.5% increment in GDP is equal to the total the U.S. currently spends on K–12 education.” Testing matters. The returns to better math performance are staggering. 2/2

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Great piece from @kehyslop.bsky.social at @thetyee.ca about the pedagogical choices made in bc curriculum resulting in declining math and reading scores. thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

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Math and Reading Scores Are Declining in BC. Why? | The Tyee

And what’s the fix? Second in a series.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Like you only have one bag of flour and you have to decide if it will be used for 100 loaves of bread or play-doh for kids? Do you flip a coin or set a price? Because currently with H1Bs the government is flipping a coin.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

What about adding a price when there's limited supply of inputs and you're currently using a lottery which is wildly sub-optimal in its allocation?

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

The more I read about the science of teaching math the more it becomes clear how important constant testing and evaluation is for student success. It is hard to appreciate just how much harm was done in reducing in testing because of reported testing anxiety.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

It’s pretty good at capturing the bookend in real time

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Does anybody else ever think about how in the early 2010s it seemed like stomp-clap was going to be a regular on the billboard charts, and then it just went away? Maybe @cmolanphy.bsky.social has written about this?

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I think a lot about how “I’ll fight for you” is a very common campaign slogan, but “I’ll carefully balance competing interests” isn’t.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I want AI to curate my news feed, but not based on my lizard brain clicking on rage bait at 11pm. Give me personalization based on who I want to be, not who I am when I’m doom scrolling. The gap between my aspirational self and my impulse self is where I need a better product.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Fine dining may even be a Veblen good where people are paying for the signal of an expensive meal. It’s not even clear to me this would hurt the restaurants.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Tax take: We should have a fine dining tax based on price per head. If you’re paying over $200 a head for a meal you seem price insensitive to me. Charge a 50% sales tax on everything over $100 a head that all goes to the food bank.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I got to thinking about how I get a lot of my taste into vibe coding sessions by way of .md files. I started to collect them all to share, and it got a little out of control and now I can share my personal best practices for vibe coding. gist.github.com/snoble/874a4...

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Vibe Coding Best Practices For One Person Projects

Vibe Coding Best Practices For One Person Projects - vibe-coding-best-practices-for-one.md

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I was chatting to Claude about nvidia really being a Linear Algebra company and ended up with a nice timeline artifact. claude.ai/public/artif...

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NVIDIA Linear Algebra Tweet Thread | Claude

NVIDIA Linear Algebra Tweet Thread - Markdown document created with Claude.

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Glad this passed. Your regular reminder that housing is good, actually. People derive tremendous value from living in housing. We should allow more of it in more places. And make sure everyone has access to it.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

For right now, and possibly for a long time, vibe coding produces much better results when you use lots of static analysis, testing, and general ci. Coding platforms that can accommodate a lot of dev tools are going to be very valuable for a while.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

My prediction is in the next few months we’re going to see a ton of bad data journalism as writers discover how willing ai is to do exactly the analysis you ask of it. My hope is we will see ai tools emerge that able to identify and label the worst of it.

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Fun way to compress the history of zoning battles. Loving the phrase “Provincial Defibrillator” for our current stage in this saga. (The verdict is still out if the defibrillator will work to return life to our ability to respond to housing demand.)

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I should have called this the NIMBY history of Vancouver.

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