Peter Forbes
@petersforbes.bsky.social
Live NW of Chicago | Lifelong midwesterner | proud UW Badger
Work: Responsible AI in finance/banking
Posts: AI governance, applied AI/ML, tech, policy, weather, Chicago, assorted stuff and things
Work: Responsible AI in finance/banking
Posts: AI governance, applied AI/ML, tech, policy, weather, Chicago, assorted stuff and things
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Autonomous RIVR delivery robots in Pittsburgh
December 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Autonomous RIVR delivery robots in Pittsburgh
This is a good example of the decision making. This drawer opens along a wall with a door to a porch. The door trim would obstruct the path of a full width drawer.
So they made it narrower with a false front, and a seam ~2-3 inches from the right side.
So they made it narrower with a false front, and a seam ~2-3 inches from the right side.
December 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This is a good example of the decision making. This drawer opens along a wall with a door to a porch. The door trim would obstruct the path of a full width drawer.
So they made it narrower with a false front, and a seam ~2-3 inches from the right side.
So they made it narrower with a false front, and a seam ~2-3 inches from the right side.
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hello milwaukee and chicago
December 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
hello milwaukee and chicago
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God, no one does it like @vickiboykis.com, mixing discussions of production code with Earthsea and Sylvia Plath
newsletter.vickiboykis.com/archive/my-2...
newsletter.vickiboykis.com/archive/my-2...
December 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
God, no one does it like @vickiboykis.com, mixing discussions of production code with Earthsea and Sylvia Plath
newsletter.vickiboykis.com/archive/my-2...
newsletter.vickiboykis.com/archive/my-2...
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Many people are saying this is shorts weather
December 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Many people are saying this is shorts weather
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I am Steve. You are Steve. We are all Steve.
December 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I am Steve. You are Steve. We are all Steve.
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CHECK OUT THE SECOND SHOT! It’s incredible! #birds
The bird on the top has a nice fish. The bird underneath tries to steal the fish. The bird with the fish drops the fish when it knows it's being attacked by the fish thief. A little bit of drama. This encounter was far away, so grainy, but fun to witness and capture.
#BaldEagles #birds
#BaldEagles #birds
December 20, 2025 at 2:35 AM
CHECK OUT THE SECOND SHOT! It’s incredible! #birds
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December 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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This entire train got blown over this morning northwest of Cheyenne
December 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This entire train got blown over this morning northwest of Cheyenne
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Occasionally Instagram tricks me into clicking on Threads. This is the first time EVER I’ve seen something there that delighted me
December 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Occasionally Instagram tricks me into clicking on Threads. This is the first time EVER I’ve seen something there that delighted me
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Pretty cool visualization of a day of Metra operations in the Chicago area. Certainly looks more frequent than I would have thought, although evenings and weekends probably aren’t great.
December 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Pretty cool visualization of a day of Metra operations in the Chicago area. Certainly looks more frequent than I would have thought, although evenings and weekends probably aren’t great.
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HRRR doing a great job modeling a narrow cold frontal rainband today between southern Michigan and western Tennessee. Classic cold season setup for sneaky damaging wind potential.
December 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
HRRR doing a great job modeling a narrow cold frontal rainband today between southern Michigan and western Tennessee. Classic cold season setup for sneaky damaging wind potential.
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Lord, please never let me be hated by someone as skilled as that Vanity Fair photographer. Let all my haters be incompetent.
December 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Lord, please never let me be hated by someone as skilled as that Vanity Fair photographer. Let all my haters be incompetent.
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One Chicago - designed by Goettsch Partners - soars 971' above the intersection of State St/ and Chicago Ave.
December 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
One Chicago - designed by Goettsch Partners - soars 971' above the intersection of State St/ and Chicago Ave.
I am caught in a real life "reply all" situation where dozens of people are replying to all saying others should not reply to all.
December 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I am caught in a real life "reply all" situation where dozens of people are replying to all saying others should not reply to all.
Data breach in South Korea exposes 33.7 million people, maybe 90% of adults.
www.techrepublic.com/article/news...
www.techrepublic.com/article/news...
Coupang CEO Quits After Breach Hits 33.7M South Koreans - TechRepublic
The e-commerce firm's data breach exposed nearly two-thirds of the entire country's population after hackers operated undetected for five months.
www.techrepublic.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Data breach in South Korea exposes 33.7 million people, maybe 90% of adults.
www.techrepublic.com/article/news...
www.techrepublic.com/article/news...
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Never forget bsky.app/profile/roya...
Video of Greg Bovino in Waukegan, with residents following and shouting, “You a bitch!” Taken by Armando Sanchez
December 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Never forget bsky.app/profile/roya...
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I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 16, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Sgurr na Bana Mhoraire and the River Balgy.
Off topic - it's a battle of wills between me and the auto spell correct sometimes.
Off topic - it's a battle of wills between me and the auto spell correct sometimes.
December 16, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Sgurr na Bana Mhoraire and the River Balgy.
Off topic - it's a battle of wills between me and the auto spell correct sometimes.
Off topic - it's a battle of wills between me and the auto spell correct sometimes.
Pour one out for Kaplan Schweser and their study guide racket.
All the frontier AIs now pass all levels of the very challenging Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exam
The paper used paywalled, new mock exams to reduce the risk of leakage but AI grading for the essays. Interestingly, prompting strategy doesn't matter for recent models. arxiv.org/pdf/2512.08270
The paper used paywalled, new mock exams to reduce the risk of leakage but AI grading for the essays. Interestingly, prompting strategy doesn't matter for recent models. arxiv.org/pdf/2512.08270
December 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Pour one out for Kaplan Schweser and their study guide racket.
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What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.
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Good story to wake up to and to remember in the days ahead.
When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.
December 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Good story to wake up to and to remember in the days ahead.
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The magical, fleeting moments after sunset
December 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The magical, fleeting moments after sunset
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@techpolicypress.bsky.social asked me to comment on the White House's EO to block state AI laws. Shorter: its focus on interstate commerce, "truthful AI," & innovation are a flop. The President is not as powerful as he pretends. Enlisting DoJ & FTC won't help; they are bound by law.
In this Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social) op-ed, Fordham Law Professor Olivier Sylvain (@oliviersylvain.bsky.social) explains why he believes President Donald Trump's latest attempt to thwart state artificial intelligence (AI) rules will probably fail.
Why Trump’s AI EO Will be DOA in Court | TechPolicy.Press
Policymakers should not allow the happy-talk about innovation blind them to the ways in which AI companies may harm consumers, Olivier Sylvain writes.
www.techpolicy.press
December 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
@techpolicypress.bsky.social asked me to comment on the White House's EO to block state AI laws. Shorter: its focus on interstate commerce, "truthful AI," & innovation are a flop. The President is not as powerful as he pretends. Enlisting DoJ & FTC won't help; they are bound by law.
Today, class, we are going to talk about selection bias
"Tucker Carlson has asserted: 'I don’t know a single happily married woman who’s liberal. Not one.'" www.liberalcurrents.com/marriage-mis...
Marriage, Misogyny, and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Right Is Offering a Morally Barren Vision of the Family
Liberals cannot allow the right to monopolize the discourse on virtue and the good life or they will cede space to their rigid and hierarchical visions.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Today, class, we are going to talk about selection bias