Over the holidays, in a little free library in Oakville, I found this book and I just breathed through it. I didn't expect to enjoy it so much, as it's mostly about canoeing and camping. But the cumulative effect of it is quite striking.There is a documentary about it too that now I'm interested to […]
Zahra Fiyouzisabah's MSc thesis is now avaiable on Papyrus, titled "Rapid prototyping for systematic reuse in compartmental models": https://umontreal.scholaris.ca/items/b3d448cf-3631-4f25-8978-54c9727e60b2Zahra created "Remedi", a pipeline architecture for taking a corpus of compartmental models, finding in it reusable bits and proposing new model prototypes that recombine them. She looked into implementing this algorithmically and using LLMs.
États-Unis, Venezuela et Groenland: nos spécialistes https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2026/01/09/etats-unis-venezuela-et-groenland-nos-specialistes
Trump’s statements about Greenland are generally discussed as an attack on a NATO ally, Denmark. But primarily and above all, they are an attack on the Greenlanders themselves, a people that is 90% Indigenous Inuit and that, in recent years, has been in the process of assuming its own sovereignty, and eventually independence.The trumpist discourse […]