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Dr. Daniel R. Page, Theoretical Computer Scientist, Science Educator

[PageWizard Games, Learning & Entertainment @PageWizardGLE]

1/3 There was a Meeting Mar 28 in @RMofSpringfield wrt Mayor Therrien's recording ban, that may violate Sec 2b rights. He did not back down.
I was blocked from documenting.
@CanadaPoli2 @JCCFCanada @RebelNewsOnline @junonewscom @LDBildy @winnipegsun @TheCarillon @CanConLaw

[PageWizard Games, Learning & Entertainment @PageWizardGLE]

@robinhanson He's communicating a standard, not a practice.

[Lisa Bildy @LDBildy]

Canada is on a dark path to nowhere good.

[William McNally @WilliamMcNall18]

@QueensU CS job ad demands a "demonstrated commitment to I-EDIAA" for a Computational Intelligence position.

As @ConceptualJames puts it: "Diversity means hiring people who believe in critical social justice ideology who might or might not happen to look different."

The woke grip on Canadian universities tightens.
@chrisbrunet @PageWizardGLE @jonkay

https://t.co/HJhAc1o14w

[Aaron Pete @Aaronpete_]

I'm prepared to go to jail over this.

My grandmother Rita Pete went to St. Mary's Indian Residential School. She experienced terrible abuse. As a consequence, she struggled with alcohol use most of her life.

My mother was born with FASD as a consequence of her using alcohol to cope with her trauma.

I am Chief of my community Chawathil First Nation. I am working to address the longstanding impacts of these past policies through renovating homes, building new homes, creating childcare, and growing businesses through economic development.

I have interviewed people who went to Indian Residential Schools. I have interviewed people who believe Indian Residential Schools were awful, horrible schools, meant to remove the Indian from the child.

I've also interviewed people who believe they were well intended, generous investments by Canadian taxpayers meant to assimilate a society and had shortcomings.

Like with many things, the history is dark, complicated, and with any policy that existed for a long time, across a whole country - there were different experiences.

No one story tells us everything. No report shares the full experience of the individuals who went. No commentator today can disprove someone's lived experience with statistics.

The path forward is not to criminalize speech, questions, or debate.

The path forward is empathy for past attendees.
The path forward is truth based on facts.
The path forward is real conversations.
The path forward is to lean into complexity.

If the government criminalizes this, then I will be a criminal for having these conversations.

If I am a criminal by the laws definition, then I am committed to going to jail over this.

[PageWizard Games, Learning & Entertainment @PageWizardGLE]

@Polymarket Nonsense.

[PageWizard Games, Learning & Entertainment @PageWizardGLE]

@DavidPasko_ @TerryNewmanNP @HorsmanGeoff @jonkay The hubris behind this comment specifically is wild. How do they know this technology is capable of this, and whether using 'AI' is a way to help doing this while injecting it at such a young age?

[Joel Fish @joelwatsonfish]

Counterpoint: This “citation window dressing” is ITSELF dishonest and also deserves a ban. If the academy believes it is trustworthy then it should actively reject dishonesty in all forms.

[Matthew Cole @mattbencole]

A lot of scholars don’t understand why publishing LLM hallucinated bullshit is unacceptable because it’s only a degree of kind away from the bullshit already normalized in their fields. This economist just straight up admits it.

[Carson Jerema @CarsonJerema]

As radical as Canadian judges have become, they've got nothing on human rights commissioners, who are operating on an entirely different plane of existence where reality is optional ...
https://t.co/CvO5T3bH55 via @nationalpost

[PageWizard Games, Learning & Entertainment @PageWizardGLE]

@sudox7 The first example is not necessarily O(1) [it depends on how your hash table is implemented and the size of "table"], the second example is O(1). If it's standard separate chaining being employed, it's not O(1) time complexity.

Not a good example.

[PageWizard Games, Learning & Entertainment @PageWizardGLE]

2/2 Lecture: https://t.co/3lAgwMABVQ
#computerscience #TCS #theoryofcomputation

[PageWizard Games, Learning & Entertainment @PageWizardGLE]

1/2 In today's lecture, we ease into the concept of computational equivalence in models of computation, by exploring different variants or extensions of Turing Machines. This will begin several lectures where these mathematically powerful ideas will be discussed.

[Frances Widdowson @FrancesWiddows1]

COUNTDOWN (19 days until #Kamloops215Deception): How @UofRegina President Jeff keshen failed in upholding academic freedom at his institution.

[🇨🇦 Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship @SocietyforAcad1]

Register for our annual meeting in London Ontario with Andrew Irvine May 29-30

https://t.co/Kpg4sSDINb

[PageWizard Games, Learning & Entertainment @PageWizardGLE]

2/2 You can find the program and how to register here, hope to see you come out: https://t.co/mNK29ltxvI #academicfreedom #canada #stem #universities #computerscience

[PageWizard Games, Learning & Entertainment @PageWizardGLE]

1/2 I will be giving an invited talk at the 2026 Academic General Meeting of @SocietyforAcad1 May 29 - May 30, 2026 in London, Ontario. While there is a number of interesting talks, the keynote talk will be given by Dr. Andrew Irvine.

[Geoff Horsman @HorsmanGeoff]

From Fraser Institute report "Canadian Students Are Getting a One-Sided University Education."

Presenting the "other side" of topics like DEI is risky. Administrators say it's "beyond debate."

True story.

[Frances Widdowson @FrancesWiddows1]

BREAKING NEWS: Alberta Labour Relations Board decision about the #FrancesWiddowsonCase with respect to @MountRoyalU is in - https://t.co/3fN7q5hEso.

Will @MRUFaculty be communicating how academic freedom was DEFINITELY a part of my case to the membership?

[PageWizard Games, Learning & Entertainment @PageWizardGLE]

It's almost like if places called universities don't actually foster deeply the academic culture of an academic university, these problems are bound to continue to happen.

You got declining standards, and too many academics and admins who take the path of least resistance.

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse:

"Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (...) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.”

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"By November, Williams estimated that at least half of his students were using AI to write their papers. Attempts at accountability were pointless. Williams had no faith in AI detectors, and the professor teaching the class instructed him not to fail individual papers, even the clearly AI-smoothed ones. “Every time I brought it up with the professor, I got the sense he was underestimating the power of ChatGPT, and the departmental stance was, ‘Well, it’s a slippery slope, and we can’t really prove they’re using AI,’” Williams said. “I was told to grade based on what the essay would’ve gotten if it were a ‘true attempt at a paper.’ So I was grading people on their ability to use ChatGPT.”

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AI in education is a serious topic, and many schools and universities are blindly jumping into the "AI-first" wave without considering short and long-term consequences.

It would be great to hear more from teachers and educators to understand potential solutions.

This might be a great opportunity for rethinking the education system and how students are assessed.

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[Wokal Distance @wokal_distance]

In 1993 the John Searle warned people that this was happening. He told everyone that academics were to timid and cowardly to defend the universities from being hijacked by leftists with a political agenda, and now 30 years later we are living with the consequences.