Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Glenn Boustead @gbottawa.bsky.social · 17d

The more important discovery would be that the language models are not understanding sentences as a human would. They are simply churning out the next word based on … A discussion of the … would hopefully lead to more messing around with language and translation.

1 1

Glenn Boustead @gbottawa.bsky.social · 17d

As a grownup and teacher I find it fun and interesting. Going between English and French there can be problems with gender words (report is le rapport in French - the model didn’t catch the original meaning of the sentence right at the start). Could be a fun activity for people learning French.

1 1

Glenn Boustead @gbottawa.bsky.social · 17d

When this executive order came out, I happened to read it. After I read section 2, part c, I went to Wikipedia to remind me of the definition of the Gestapo.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Additional Measures to Address the Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Crime

www.whitehouse.gov

1

Glenn Boustead @gbottawa.bsky.social · 17d

I like this - I am also younger than the solar system. However I am old enough to have watched Mary Poppins when it came out in theatres.

1 4

Glenn Boustead @gbottawa.bsky.social · 21d

What a beautiful place to have near your office.

1

Glenn Boustead @gbottawa.bsky.social · Sep 2

@megjlow.bsky.social when I read this I thought about what you said today about teaching Java during your superb keynote at Snap!Con 2025. Thanks for telling such a full story about your experiences, especially leading to Turtlestitch gatherings. We need more of these everywhere.

1 1

Glenn Boustead @gbottawa.bsky.social · Aug 29

I am eagerly awaiting your show. I wish I could make it to Heidelberg this year, but will have to settle for online in Ottawa this time around.

1

Glenn Boustead @gbottawa.bsky.social · Aug 22

It’s hard to remember something that didn’t happen.

1

Glenn Boustead @gbottawa.bsky.social · Aug 22

As a recently retired elementary school teacher, I find your comments about relationships spot on. People want to express themselves using their own voice when they believe that their audience cares about them as humans. To believe that requires a relationship that will have taken time to develop.

2

Glenn Boustead @gbottawa.bsky.social · Aug 20

Here’s a video of sax versus clarinet. Even with poor playing it could tell the difference between these similar instruments.

2

Glenn Boustead @gbottawa.bsky.social · Aug 20

I’ve had time to mess around with these new blocks. I’ve tried several instruments and it works quite well. What I haven’t been able to figure out is how to have more than 2 instruments be detected in one model. I tried different classification numbers but no success yet. Video in reply…

1 2

Glenn Boustead @gbottawa.bsky.social · Aug 18

The book is amazing and Ken’s entire life’s work has been devoted to children and learning. toontalk.com/English/kenk...

Happy to share my spare copy if you would like to explore further. Lots of fascinating explorations.

Who built ToonTalk?

toontalk.com

Glenn Boustead @gbottawa.bsky.social · Aug 18

Fun times. Sounds like you’ve visited these topics in an abstract way. It reminded me of this story from Ken Kahn’s new book

cmkpress.com/product/lear... where a little girl very concretely encounters these ideas using pebbles. I’ve attached the story as a photo but have a spare copy of the book.

1 1

Glenn Boustead @gbottawa.bsky.social · Aug 13

I forgot to include this image from Wikipedia. And to express thanks for translation.

1

Glenn Boustead @gbottawa.bsky.social · Aug 13

You always choose thoughtful stories to tell that embrace and make clear whatever the tech details are. This simple song will be relatable to all in some way, and gives a perfect reason for using computation to listen for an instrument as a signal. I hope I get to hear this at SnapCon25! Thanks!

2 1

Glenn Boustead @gbottawa.bsky.social · Jul 30

We did the deluxe camping with our 7 month old - we stayed in an otentic

parcs.canada.ca/pn-np/qc/for...

L'oTENTik

parcs.canada.ca

1

Glenn Boustead @gbottawa.bsky.social · Jul 29

It is a beautiful part of the country. We did that 9 years ago. Camped out for 4 days at Forillan National Park and enjoyed the peace.

1 1

Glenn Boustead @gbottawa.bsky.social · Jul 20

Your other answer to questions like that : pause and then “I don’t know, what do you think?”

Glenn Boustead @gbottawa.bsky.social · Jun 30

Branford Marsalis quartet closing out Ottawa Jazzfest tonight. Accompanied by a giant dragonfly removing the pesky mosquitoes. It flies too fast to photograph.

Glenn Boustead @gbottawa.bsky.social · Jun 27

Hard to fit so much into 10 minutes. How were the questions?

1

Glenn Boustead @gbottawa.bsky.social · Jun 24

Looks like a great gathering of like-minded people. Wish I could have made it this year.

1

Glenn Boustead @gbottawa.bsky.social · Jun 22

It was Mavis Staples night tonight at Ottawa Jazzfest.

Glenn Boustead @gbottawa.bsky.social · Jun 20

Cool! Can’t wait to try it. Unfortunately I have people coming for dinner in 10 minutes. Best I attend to them instead of trying this out now.

1

Glenn Boustead @gbottawa.bsky.social · Jun 17

Somehow I couldn’t attach these other images

Glenn Boustead @gbottawa.bsky.social · Jun 17

I listened to this the other day. An excellent explanation of how research is funded and why it is so vital to human progress and existence. Too bad the thug in power just wants to bully the world instead of make it better.

1 1