Some personal news: I solved the Wordle in 3 guesses before my Friday afternoon ESC180 class.

While you're here, the final version of our Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: IJCNLP-AACL 2025 paper on biases in human Wordle gameplay is out

New from us at ICCV workshops this weekend:

www.cs.toronto.edu/~guerzhoy/Op...

www.cs.toronto.edu/~guerzhoy/EC...

Stay tuned for NeurIPS stuff :-)

I was cited in Psychology Today!

Specifically, implying the opposite of what I actually wrote, by a person arguing that that's the kind of thing LLMs would do.

www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/how-...

Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2411.06498

At the Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting in Saskatoon (my first time in the Praries)

Happy belated Valentine's day! New one is in orange

Low Cost Airline (FLAIR) captain at the door, pointing at my NeurIPS/etc posters: what are those, your plans to take over the world?

Me: Yes and the amazing thing is you didn't charge for those as extra carry-on

(OK fine I was two minutes late with this and didn't come back up to the plane)

Geoff Hinton was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
I wasn't but I did score an 87 in his course in 2005, so I got to be on (Canadian) national TV talking about it.
youtube.com/watch?v=rQxv... (CTV)
youtube.com/watch?v=6yDz... (CityTV)
globalnews.ca/video/109117... (Global)

This Sunday, I went down to Chestnut Residence to play Ping Pong against some 17 @uoft.bsky.social EngSci students who challenged me to a game! For every point difference against me in a game I lost I donated $1 to the Toronto Humane Society (rounded up a bit to $42 + credit card fees).

I miss the times when I could just post to Facebook and get engagement. New socials suck:
LinkedIn: Easy engagement, but tacky
Instagram: Easy engagement, but don't understand it
Bsky: People too nice
Twitter: People too mean
Openreview/EasyChair: People *way* too mean

Chemin de l'Église on a warm autumn night — in Montbonnot-Saint-Martin, France., Nov 24, 2012