This one goes out to the folks that, like me, enjoy making a big deal about small data - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202219070 #chem #chemML #ML #chemtoots @aspuru @gabegomes

On my walk to @uoftnews @mstdn.social @uoft #selfie #toronto #spring

From: https://historiacuba.wordpress.com/2016/08/26/aspuru-y-compania/

#QuantumComputing picks of the day:

➡️ @qiskit - Free open source quantum computing SDK for working with quantum computers at the level of pulses, circuits & application modules

➡️ @filipw - Software architect, open source maintainer, quantum computing expert and author

➡️ @piquemal - Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at Sorbonne University

➡️ @aspuru - Professor of Chemistry, Computer Science, Materials Science and Chemical Engineering at the University of Toronto

Aw... Former student wrote to update me about having been offered a faculty position and awarded an INSPIRE grant for their first 5 years. Yup, there WERE good things about that Ivory Tower job, and keeping up with the successes of former co-workers might just top the list... 😃

Headed to my talk at Instituto de Química, UNAM, I took a photo that reminded me of @Migueldeicaza and @federicomena . Then arrived and caught the Q and A for Alfredo Alexander-Katz. Puros cuates.

The QR decomposition can be computed in a numerically stable way using planar rotation matrices. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Givens_rotation

Reminder: do you identify as #Latinx and work on the fields of #statistics #MachineLearning #DataScience ?

Please consider adding yourself to the database: https://latinxinstat.wid.wisc.edu/

We are hoping to build a community of #LatinxInStat #LatinxInDataSci, but also, we hope that conference organizers can use this database to include a more diverse #representation of speakers.

#Inclusion #RepresentationMatters #diversity

Going to #MexicoCity #CDMX for a #cifar workshop I co-organize and then family reasons. Will be nice to be in the city i grew up.

If you've been waiting for full-text #search on #Mastodon, please go to #TootFinder and sign in. The more the merrier.
https://www.tootfinder.ch/

It's opt-in, not opt-out. It respects Mastodon culture and doesn't index accounts that don't sign in.

That means the index might be small if we don't spread the word.

#mastotips#feditips

Hey, #scicomm and #chemastadon #chemistry (did we settle on a hashtag?), come lead C&EN! Also tell them I sent you, there’s a recruitment bonus. I all seriousness, I am happy to discuss this or the other openings at C&EN with anyone interested and promise you full candor https://jobs.acs.org/job/Washington-Vice-President-and-Editor-in-Chief%2C-C&EN-DC-20036/995994300/

Incredibly authoritarian move by the Mexican government.

From: @vmramos
https://mastodon.world/@vmramos/109914570029575303

brought to you by evening code-reading, https://gitlab.com/Aksej/verlet and me having to jump around 4 dependencies to find where the ~bind~ macro was coming from.

it's really good though!

Balsamic vinegar, malt vinegar, rice vinegar... This graphic takes a look at the chemical quirks of the different vinegar types and how they're made: https://www.compoundchem.com/2023/02/20/vinegar/

Terrifying thought: the next QAnon isn't going to form around some anonymous poster on a x-chan message board

It's going to form around a large language model AI

Adherents will exchange copy-and-paste prompts with each other

RT @JimJohnsonSci
Six (6!) faculty positions at @UBC @ubclifesciences around the concept of Biological resilience. Areas of interest include metabolism, unusual model systems, single cell proteomics, human genetics, imaging… https://lsi.ubc.ca/2023/02/13/six-faculty-positions-at-ubc-in-biological-resilience/

#toronto #torontostreetart #streetart

Snowy Nights in Japan.
#photography #snow #japan

@c_9 Toronto is currently accepting applications to be on the TTC board. Two member’s terms are up end of March. Pays 10K per year plus 450 per meeting attended. (One meeting per month). Just saying…
#toronto #ttc

#seenonmywalk #toronto #kensingtonmarket #neon #miamor #amor