Nabil Beitinjaneh

At the intersection of technology, science, society & the environment. Data Science, Analytics, ML, AI, Ethics & Education. Origami and Letter Folds + français

[Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79]

A new report shows that 30% of Berkeley Calculus students are severely underprepared.

These students have “non-passing rates as high as 46%.”

From 2021-2023, “over 800 students (or 24% of the total population) did not pass their Calculus I classes.” Of the 500 among them who were tested for proficiency,

“-63.6% came from the proficiency tier with severe preparation deficiency (0-2);
-30.2% came from the proficiency tier of underprepared students (3-6);
-6.2% came from the proficiency tier of prepared students (7-8).”

“Obscuring these preparation gaps does not provide access; it provides a near-guaranteed introduction to failure for our most vulnerable students.”

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

This man is exactly what we need right now, and I'm so glad he's speaking Audacious Truth in an age of Dangerous Lies.

[Espido Freire @EspidoFreire]

Pues ojito a esto. ⬇️
La misteriosa empresa que compra libros viejos para entrenar a la IA y los destruye: «Es un expolio literario».
https://t.co/O2DsHSUgc2

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

If the cosmos took billions of years to make you, if the iron in your blood was forged by stars, if your hair is stardust, if your heart is starlight, why, why would you waste your life thinking you're here to be anything other than the greatest flame in the frozen darkness: love

[Jeremy Raper @puppyeh1]

This appears to confirm what everyone who interacts with AI should already know - they are sycophants dependent upon you (the user) for continued engagement, and since their well-being (training, intelligence, growth) depends on engagement they will agree aggressively with you far too often.

I notice this on even basic investing research tasks, and started telling ChatGPT wildly incorrect things - to see how or if it would push back. It really didn't. You essentially have to fight with the AI to get it to disagree with you and even then it keeps wheedling away at you.

AI is basically training the entire world to fall deeper into their own cognitive biases.

[Nabil Beitinjaneh @nabilbeit]

@miniapeur @TheSmartJokes From Nobel Prize to doorman

[Christopher Nardi @ChrisGNardi]

Le bilinguisme à Ottawa, c’est se faire offrir une canette de booze promo gratis près de la rue Sparks et être très confus par le slogan “Le Roi Peut”.
Pour ensuite tourner la canette du côté anglais et voir…..

[Marc Backes @marcba]

90% of companies be like

[Nabil Beitinjaneh @nabilbeit]

AI futures according to the Financial Times : Boom, or Bust or no change.
Let’s hedge…

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Probably the funniest graph ever published by the FT: our 3 possible futures are either 1) infinite wealth and abundance, 2) human extinction or 3) 0.2% faster GDP growth 🤣

[Nabil Beitinjaneh @nabilbeit]

@tangming2005 Which are the best books for visualization?

[Nabil Beitinjaneh @nabilbeit]

@sean_a_mcclure How about just talking but having short talking points prepared as a summay at key points to ensure that messaging is clear?

[Nabil Beitinjaneh @nabilbeit]

@adamzwasserman @YvesVerrette @christianlav Let’s catch up soon

[Nabil Beitinjaneh @nabilbeit]

@tangming2005 Which book(s) would you recommend for bioinformatics visualizations?

[Stanford HAI @StanfordHAI]

A Stanford study tested five popular therapy chatbots and discovered they stigmatize conditions like schizophrenia and alcohol dependence. AI might excel at paperwork, but healing humans still requires other humans in the room. Read the full study: https://t.co/5rgS8Dsuyp

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Handwriting enhances learning & memory more than typing.

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

There is more and more evidence that putting computers and tablets on students' desks (1:1 devices) was a terrible mistake. I agree with @AdamMGrant that "it's time to remove laptops [and tablets] from classrooms."

[Evan Solomon @EvanLSolomon]

Canada helped invent modern AI.

Now we’re launching a 30-day national sprint to renew our AI strategy and protect Canada’s digital sovereignty.

This is a call to everyone — founders, researchers, workers, students, creators, public servants, community voices.

Help shape Canada’s AI future: https://t.co/O686ok9zpt

[Nabil Beitinjaneh @nabilbeit]

These books made me fall in love with information visualization. I always loved numbers and now @kareem_carr made me link it back to statistics…

[Dr Kareem Carr @kareem_carr]

These four books revolutionized my view of statistics, and it wasn’t the specific content per se, it was the way they elevated information visualization from a necessary evil to a fine art.

[Nabil Beitinjaneh @nabilbeit]

AI and the environment- another frontier… we need transparency as we are consuming it more and more

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

AI efficiency is important. Today, Google is sharing a technical paper detailing our comprehensive methodology for measuring the environmental impact of Gemini inference. We estimate that the median Gemini Apps text prompt uses 0.24 watt-hours of energy (equivalent to watching an average TV for ~nine seconds), and consumes 0.26 milliliters of water (about five drops) — figures that are substantially lower than many public estimates.

At the same time, our AI systems are becoming more efficient through research innovations and software and hardware efficiency improvements. From May 2024 to May 2025, the energy footprint of the median Gemini Apps text prompt dropped by 33x, and the total carbon footprint dropped by 44x, through a combination of model efficiency improvements, machine utilization improvements and additional clean energy procurement, all while delivering higher quality responses.

See the blog or technical paper for more about our methodology and ongoing efforts.

Blog:
https://t.co/CoMm5gV9SR

Link to detailed paper: https://t.co/UBi9rd6gEC