Secret History of Twin Peaks
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Sancho McCann
@sanchom
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Public law, computer science, copyright, community. PhD (UBC, Computer Science). JD (Allard Law at UBC). Former BCCA and SCC law clerk. Optimist. (he/him)
Thoughtworks's "Radar" (https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar) is a nice occasional overview of interesting tools and practices in the tech industry. From the mundane "Pre-commit hooks" (who isn't using these?) — to the shocking "LLM as judge" (meaning evaluator, not legal adjudicator).
Dan Simmons, The Terror. Got me interested in the real history of the Franklin expedition. Maybe too detailed, or the wrong details, lots of depth to each character, but only factual depth. I found myself heavily skimming through much of this book to see how the fantastical elements resolved.
CanLII (Canadian Legal Information Institute) has sued the owners/operators of caseway AI for allegedly performing a bulk download of material from CanLII. Here's CanLII's opening summary of its allegations. Read the full claim here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12ZN0xStUJgp9ggmaI6AUXlHF9rkMSp1v/view?usp=sharing
To be clear, these are CanLII's own allegations, and Caseway hasn't responded yet.
Did not have a debate about the intrinsic dimensionality of a line vs its presence in ambient R³ space on my SCC bingo card.
They're discussing paragraph 84 of the FCA judgment (https://canlii.ca/t/jwn6d#par84).
Full hearing here: https://www.scc-csc.ca/case-dossier/info/webcastview-webdiffusionvue-eng.aspx?cas=40776&id=2024/2024-10-16--40776&date=2024-10-16
@simon I agree! I wrote a bit about the terminological critique here: https://sanchom.github.io/atlas-of-ai.html
mattbrehmerDrawing inspiration from Mark Fisher's writing about genre fiction, film, and music, I recently wrote (and spoke) about communicating the Weird and the Eerie in the context of data #visualization design. #ieeevis #altVIS
alt.VIS 2023: Visualizing the Weird and the Eerie
@pwills I'm thinking on reasonableness review (à la Vavilov, or Catalyst Paper: only if the bylaw is one no reasonable body could have taken will the bylaw be set aside), the JR judge isn't doing a P&S analysis, but checking if council implicitly conducted a reasonable P&S analysis (if P&S is in fact the test). But see [33, 34, 92] https://canlii.ca/t/jr7fg#par33: a staff and a councillor said the by-law was valid because there was no impossibility of dual compliance (the wrong test, said the judge).