Politically conscious math prof who argues about #nlpoli too much. I write for https://teapawt.net/t.co/oOinYdfuxR
St. John's, Newfoundland
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Tom Baird retweeted
actually it's the battery that is designed like an eel lmao
Volta, the inventor of the battery, was attempting to mimic the design of eels when he found a combination that worked
Tom Baird retweeted
🇧🇷 "I address the Brazilian people and the international community as the true elected president of Brazil."
Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, who lost Sunday's presidential runoff to incumbent Lula da Silva by about 4.4 million votes, is claiming the presidency in a statement released from Miami, United States. Without offering any evidence, he calls the result "electoral fraud.”
In the statement, Bolsonaro:
➤ Blames a last-minute Supreme Court decision extending voting hours, which he says arrived "after the legal closing time." He does not mention that at 3:50 p.m. Brasília time, his Liberal Party campaign also asked the Superior Electoral Court to extend voting to 7 p.m. in 19 rain-hit cities in São Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina. (It also asked that results be held back until voting there ended.)
➤ Calls the Supreme Court investigations against him a "politically motivated witch hunt," saying "there is no arrest warrant against me because I have committed no crime"
➤ Says "I didn't flee Brazil, I left Brazil," comparing himself to Charles de Gaulle, José Martí and Venezuela's Juan Guaidó
➤ Thanks Trump and Argentine President Javier Milei, and vows to "lead the opposition here.” He also praises Venezuela’s María Corina Machado for having "refused to legitimize the fraud,” and calls on international community to not "normalize what is happening in Brazil”
Bolsonaro faces two Supreme Court investigations into alleged corruption and money laundering. He missed Tuesday's deadline to hand over his passports before fleeing to Miami.
Tom Baird retweeted
I had real trouble believing that Google was actually doing this, but I just duplicated the result myself. The two queries were about a minute apart and identical except for a single digit.
Mindblowing.
Announcing three major scientific discoveries, one each in mathematics (harmonic analysis), computer science (complexity theory), and physics (quantum field theory).
AI starting to help us improve our understanding of the universe! openai.com/index/building-sc…
Tom Baird retweeted
I can't say that I had this on my radar for the federal government, particularly after several early missteps with First Nations. This type of effort is more likely to fail than succeed, but bravo to all involved for showing the courage to open the conversation.
Tom Baird retweeted
GOLDMAN:
“.. we are starting to see clearer signs that the AI impact is spreading beyond the technology sector. .. the share of US firms that have adopted AI in regular business functions now shows a statistically significant negative correlation with employment growth ..”
Tom Baird retweeted
NEW from me:
Last year, Mark Carney set a goal to double Canada's non-US exports by 2035. Today, he's already halfway there
In response to Trump's tariffs & threats, Canadian businesses, consumers, & even tourists are taking difficult steps to decouple from the US🧵
Tom Baird retweeted
Interesting how big of a difference there is within math. Shows increase in arXiv papers from 2022 to 2025 vs. 2026, regular growth vs. AI explosion
Mathematics is by far the fastest growing field on ArXiv, now reaching 2x papers compared to the expected trend. While CS has also increased 35%, most of this comes from theoretical subfields, not from cs.AI or cs.LG, both of which are in line with expectations.
Tom Baird retweeted
Massive. New Harvard study finds that AI-written paper reviews now beat the best human peer reviews on every measure the authors tested.
Peer review is slow and often misses errors. Earlier studies concluded AI should only assist human reviewers, not replace them.
They used 134 reviews from rapidPeer, a Harvard service that pays expert reviewers well. Claude Opus 4.8 reviewed the same 1124 papers, and GPT-5.5 plus 3 former journal editors judged the pairs blind.
GPT-5.5 picked the AI review in all 132 decided pairs, and the editors picked it 87% of the time. Only 5.5% of the AI's claims about the paper were wrong, versus 15.9% for the human reviews.
Teams that depend on expert critique can now let AI do the first full review pass, and keep a human for the final decision.
Tom Baird retweeted
If you're wondering who is behind those Jagmeet Singh duffel bag ads on here, know that it's part of a multi-billion dollar scam empire being run out of Eastern European call centers. It's an absolutely massive problem and Canada is a priority target.
cbc.ca/news/ukraine-call-cen…
Tom Baird retweeted
You really really really really really need to make sure you’re not playing poker with anyone using smart glasses.
Zero tolerance.
Tom Baird retweeted
Brent oil hit $110 a barrel for the first time since May bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Tom Baird retweeted
The Singaporean government confirms that the GFS PRIDE container ship has sunk in waters near the Strait of Hormuz after an (Iranian) attack. All the crew is safe. The 220-long ship was under the flag of Singapore.
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🔥 BREAKING
The Financial Times reports the Trump administration spent the weekend calling European capitals with a demand: stop sending weapons to Ukraine. Not a request.
A demand. American officials are now actively working to cut off the supply lines keeping Ukraine in the fight.
The administration claims to want peace while threatening the countries that enable Ukraine's survival, abandoning neutrality and negotiation altogether.
This is Washington running interference for Moscow while pretending to broker a deal.
The mask is off. It has been off.
So looks like Burke-Goodnough copied some demographic data from the Health Accord, cited it correctly, but screwed up the chart.
Then someone in government decided Stats Can would be a more appropriate reference, and asked AI to come up with a plausible one.
