Professor, Computer Science, University of Manitoba
ACM Creativity & Cognition is happening online next week in Gather. I am the virtual platform chair and I have spent WAY too many hours building a conference space that evokes London, as the 2026 conference will be in person in London.
Fully virtual conferences are accessible to all - sustainable, affordable, equitable, better for folks with caring responsibilities and those unable to travel due to VISA issues. C&C is fully virtual every other year. Join us! @acm_creativitycognition #SIGCHI
Do you do taxes for friends and family members? We'd like to talk to you!
University of Manitoba researchers are seeking informal tax helpers (people who file taxes on behalf of family and friends) to participate in a 30-minute interview. For more details see infographic or website: https://celinelatulipe.net/cra-older-adults-interview-study/
University of Manitoba researchers are seeking older adults to participate in a series of online focus groups over the next 15 months in the ABLE Village Study. For more details see infographic or website: https://celinelatulipe.net/the-able-village-study/ Please feel free to share with older adults in Manitoba or Saskatchewan. #aging #Manitoba #winnipeg #regina #sask
Is there a way to quickly jump between a location in a notebook in the viewer and the equivalent location in the Rmd source in RStudio? Similar to the < and > buttons in Overleaf that jump you to the correct portion of the latex source to/from the PDF output? I can't find any keypresses or menu items to do this. For big notebooks this would be super handy. #rstudio
@Logological We are so excited you have joined us!
My students and I are looking for older adult participants (65+) who use online banking in Canada to participate in a study about setting up proxy accounts: a more secure way to delegate some banking tasks to caregivers or close others. $20 compensation provided to participants. Study takes place on Zoom. Study approved by University of Manitoba Ethics. Participation details at link: https://celinelatulipe.net/proxy-access-control-study/ Please feel free to boost!
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We are hiring 4 CS faculty at the University of Manitoba and two positions are specifically targeted at scholars who identify as women! Come work with us! The Globe & Mail recently declared Winnipeg as the third most livable city in Canada!
General ad: https://cscan-infocan.ca/job/university-of-manitoba-winnipeg-manitoba-330-assistant-associate-professor/
Targeted ad: https://cscan-infocan.ca/job/university-of-manitoba-winnipeg-manitoba-168-assistant-associate-professor-2/
Please help my summer research student complete his study. We seek older adults in Canada who use online banking to participate in a one-hour online (Zoom) study about setting up a delegate account so a family member or friend can safely assist with banking tasks. Please feel free to share this with others! Participants must be willing to have their web cam on and screen share while they try out our prototype. This study has been approved by our REB. #canada #finance #aging #winnipeg #fintech
Been getting several DMs about the #GenerativeArt banner image in my profile. It's an old render (from 2010) of a recursive #Voronoi projected into a #Quadtree. This video shows the interplay of 2 conceptual hierarchies:
1) Verlet particles with attractive/repulsive force fields are spawned in a squared 2d space and negotiate their positions over time. These positions are also used as sites for creating a dynamic Voronoi diagram to define cell structures around each particle. Each resulting Voronoi region can then become the physical (and constantly changing) bounds for the next level of recursion, spawning more particles to subdivide it into smaller regions. Each cell at each level is using its own Voronoi instance with sub-regions clipped to their respective parent region. The process becomes more and more local... The setup in the video has a maximum tree depth of 3.
2) A quadtree is used to visualize the hierarchy of cells from phase 1 and its depth structure represented as extruded 3D model (in isometric perspective). For this video the quadtree has a depth of 10 levels with the maximum level of recursion tracing/coinciding with the Voronoi cell edges. The elevation of cell walls depends on the depth of the cell in the original tree, with the cells at deepest level resulting in the tallest structures. Furthermore, the elevation is modulated by the distance of each point to the nearest vertex of its parent cell polygon/region...
It’s an apple year. So many apples. I’ve given away 3 buckets and still have all this. Sadly, they aren’t very tasty.
Day 1 of no CBC on Twitter and my Twitter feed is still filled with people sharing links to CBC articles. I support the CBC, don't get me wrong, but this undermines the "paused activity" and helps Twitter continue.
If the CBC and other media are serious about withdrawing from Twitter, they need to remove the Twitter share button from their articles and nuke the Twitter autonomous system (block their IP) to prevent Twitter from generating link previews. #Canada #CBC #News #Media #birdsite
What a creative idea for a city-building sim!
“In most city builders you need to think big by expanding your city and slowly covering the available land with houses and factories. But what if the land you're building on is getting smaller and smaller while you're trying to build bigger?”
I know there's only, like, four Winnipeggers who follow me here, but holy shit is this huge and awesome and long overdue. I am so excited about this!
I'm teaching a five-week mini-course on Web Data Scraping. Twitter was ejected from the course but we'll be digging into the Mastodon API.
Follow along here! https://github.com/CU-ITSS/Web-Data-Scraping-S2023
More pragmatically, what norms need to be established for using such tools in academic communities?
What expectations do we need to have on disclosing the use of these tools in publications?
How do you accurately present your positionality when your coder is ChatGPT?
UBS eyeing swoop for Credit Suisse, sources say, amid fears of banking contagion https://koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2023/03/501_347347.html?utm_source=fl
When I was in Luxembourg this weekend, I saw these embossed markings on crosswalk buttons that show the layout of the crossing. This one shows multiple car lanes, tram tracks and inbetween pedestrian islands. #accessibility
