Good article. Although all of this slash-and-burn activity is making me wonder how a federal/national data system designed from scratch would differ from the current system.

Fun read. ai-2027.com

I was on Paul Well's podcast to talk about the health of the information ecosystem heading into the election, what threats and vulnerabilities we we are seeing so far Media Ecosystem Observatory and what the next government's digital policy might look like. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/ele…

So cool.

I finished a book last night. Felt like 2005.

Sometimes there is no secret sauce because the secret sauce is just extreme attention to detail (EATD) That's it, that's the trick. You can build tech to facilitate EATD, to speed it up, to lower its cost, whatever, but for many tasks there just is no substitute for it

I am #reborn. “Here, we use a series of use cases to present and test a novel pre-publication approach, known as reborn, that integrates with computing environments for (statistical) data analysis, ensuring scientific knowledge is born-readable (i.e. expressed in a

montrealgazette.com/opinion/column…

I think the current state of social science research is pretty bad and I wrote something for Asterisk about it.

“•One VAS researcher reported that data from the 1980s was stored on physical cards at different locations and some was possibly eaten by rodents.” 🐀😖

How should development practice (and institutions) approach the coming reforms in the aid sector? africanistperspective.com/p/how-should-d…

amazing

1/ I’ve been struggling to explain this paper so people really grasp its importance It addresses the question: Do people who get so-called evidence-based therapy for depression get well? The answer is, NO THEY DON’T The paper is a meta-analysis (compilation) of the best

👀 #opendata