Rob McDiarmid

@amaltson is making slidcraft the next branch of neuroscience at @FITC's #WebUnleashed Next level presentation!

Halting funding for the World Health Organization during a world health crisis is as dangerous as it sounds. Their work is slowing the spread of COVID-19 and if that work is stopped no other organization can replace them. The world needs @WHO now more than ever.

Ok, according to "Ben" we are live and ready to go. As always: "hope it doesn't suck". (It's Hardcore History Day!) Thanks for everything everyone. dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/t…

Also, if you happen to be in Toronto when I am please feel free to come by and say hi. boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/websales/pages…

If you’re voting strategically (you kind of have to in a first-past-the-post system), then this riding breakdown should help you decide: 338canada.com/districts/dist…. Go to your specific riding and vote accordingly. For me, as much as I want to vote NDP, it’s two horse race here 😞

Good morning! First up today, a Canadian exclusive interview with whistleblower Edward Snowden @Snowden about his new book, and the whistleblower in the Trump-Ukraine scandal roiling the U.S. You can read and listen here: cbc.ca/1.5297327

This is what Earth looks like from 1.5 billion kilometers away; the Cassini spacecraft spots a pale blue dot beneath Saturn's rings.

Survived my first earthquake in Costa Rica. Hope everyone is OK

Moving to Costa Rica: Our Process in Making the Move window2ourworld.com/moving-to-cost…

@fourfists6666 Just wanted to thank you for your album. It was worth the wait. It always takes me form feeling broken beyond recognition to feeling like the quiet life is kinda nice.

Since *all* @eggheadio content is temporarily free 👀, a few recommendations for the weekend 🍿 @ahandvanish 's Natural Language Processing: egghead.io/courses/natura… @brindelle 's Grep Course: egghead.io/courses/use-gr… @marcysutton 's Accessibility Course: egghead.io/courses/start-…

@erickoleda @Google Thanks Eric for looking into it. I think I reached out that e-mail already but I'll double check. At this point though I'm in the process of rewriting the app to remove the use of Google APIs.

@RobIanMcd @Google I just found out we have a mailing list where you can report trouble you are having with the process: oauth-feedback@google.com. Please reach out to them, they seem to be monitoring it actively.

@google's new OAuth approval process is ridiculous. After months of jumping through hoops they just shut down access to my app and are now saying I need to post a video to YouTube making a case for why I should be allowed to use the Gmail API.

@Google OAuth verification for Gmail is a terrible. The process is tedious and after several appeals we can't provide our users with e-mail preview on @seznam_cz because "it's not a full e-mail client". If you liked this feature, sorry, we'll have to take it down :'-(

Google: "You need to verify your app's API oauth access". We send in the form. Google: "You need to add this scope." We add the scope. Google: "Scope names provided by you do not need approval and thus inapplicable for the verification process." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

5 months ago we went through OAuth Developer Verification with Google and today all of a sudden users get “This application is not verified”. No heads up or warning of any sort. Nothing changed on our end. Submitted verification form again. Sigh…

@goodfellow_ian imbalanced-learn.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.…

ML Twitter, what are your favorite papers / other resources about the class imbalance problem?

Today I released github.com/robianmcd/kera… . It's a tool for visualizing neural networks built with #keras and @TensorFlow. It's still pretty bare bones so let me know what features you would find useful in the future

As a web developer trying to learn ML, @distillpub's post on "Research Debt" really rings true. Hope these ideas catch on! distill.pub/2017/research-…