Philip Bulsink 🇨🇦
@philip.bulsink.ca
Chemist (analytical/biofuels),
Data Scientist (sports data, R),
Christian (reformed, affirming 🏳️🌈),
Ottawa
He/him
Data Scientist (sports data, R),
Christian (reformed, affirming 🏳️🌈),
Ottawa
He/him
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If Canada is going to become an Associate Member of the EU, a great spot to start would be recognizing EU vehicle safety and emissions standards. That would open an easy pathway to increase the availability of small, fuel efficient vehicles in the Canadian market.
September 16, 2026 at 12:59 PM
If Canada is going to become an Associate Member of the EU, a great spot to start would be recognizing EU vehicle safety and emissions standards. That would open an easy pathway to increase the availability of small, fuel efficient vehicles in the Canadian market.
I was cleaning out under the shelves in my back shed just the other day when I found a copy of fable, just chillin' there, waiting for a chance to copy itself yet again.
Anthropic's models run on terabytes of VRAM. It's not going to "just copy itself to other computers."
September 12, 2026 at 6:37 PM
I was cleaning out under the shelves in my back shed just the other day when I found a copy of fable, just chillin' there, waiting for a chance to copy itself yet again.
It was relatively cold out overnight, so with the high air exchange rate in the lab we're still only at 17 °C inside.
It's officially solid DMSO weather in the lab! #chemchat 🍂
It's officially solid DMSO weather in the lab! #chemchat 🍂
September 11, 2026 at 3:07 PM
It was relatively cold out overnight, so with the high air exchange rate in the lab we're still only at 17 °C inside.
It's officially solid DMSO weather in the lab! #chemchat 🍂
It's officially solid DMSO weather in the lab! #chemchat 🍂
Ordered coffee beans for delivery from a local #Ottawa roaster last evening. They showed up today at lunch. Roast Date on the package? This morning. Thanks Brown Bag Coffee!
BBCR.ca
Artisan coffee, using fluid bed roasting technology, focusing on single origin beans.
bbcr.ca
September 8, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Ordered coffee beans for delivery from a local #Ottawa roaster last evening. They showed up today at lunch. Roast Date on the package? This morning. Thanks Brown Bag Coffee!
Conspiracy theory time: this is how Red Bull give Liam Lawson another experience to see if they can replace Max at the end of the year through promotion instead of a new driver signing. #F1
August 19, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Conspiracy theory time: this is how Red Bull give Liam Lawson another experience to see if they can replace Max at the end of the year through promotion instead of a new driver signing. #F1
Crazy thunderstorm rain and wind in Ottawa now (Nepean). Hardest I've ever seen. No warning from Environment Canada?
August 13, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Crazy thunderstorm rain and wind in Ottawa now (Nepean). Hardest I've ever seen. No warning from Environment Canada?
Finally no more tornado warnings in Kanata for rotation near Hawkesbury (or vice versa)
Environment Canada implements new alert system for extreme weather warnings.
globalnews.ca/news/1201631...
globalnews.ca/news/1201631...
Environment Canada implements new alert system for extreme weather warnings | Globalnews.ca
Beginning Tuesday, ECCC is using a system that allows them to draw a polygon over an area encompassing a severe weather alert.
globalnews.ca
August 11, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Finally no more tornado warnings in Kanata for rotation near Hawkesbury (or vice versa)
Them tornado warnings only show up while I'm trying to BBQ. Who can I speak to about this issue? #OttWeather
August 10, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Them tornado warnings only show up while I'm trying to BBQ. Who can I speak to about this issue? #OttWeather
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Federal government announces $768M contract to build laboratory project in Ottawa
Federal government announces $768M contract to build laboratory project in Ottawa
The federal government says it has awarded a $768.6-million contract to build several new laboratories on the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) lab campus in Ottawa.
bit.ly
August 10, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Federal government announces $768M contract to build laboratory project in Ottawa
I think the discourse on "become an expert first then use LLM to do more research faster" is correct. While chemistry may have different types of questions than mathematics, we should keep the door open to the ask -> receive -> validate cycle like described here.
There's lots of stuff LLMs can't do, but if you want to disbelieve all the recent math, you have to believe a bunch of Fields Medalists with long track records are just straightforwardly lying about the thing they care most about. Here's a recent blog by Gowers: gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a...
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, to whi…
gowers.wordpress.com
August 1, 2026 at 4:48 PM
I think the discourse on "become an expert first then use LLM to do more research faster" is correct. While chemistry may have different types of questions than mathematics, we should keep the door open to the ask -> receive -> validate cycle like described here.
Yes, when I asked to convert 14.6 mm to an imperial measurement I certainly meant I wanted it in miles. Thanks Google!
July 28, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Yes, when I asked to convert 14.6 mm to an imperial measurement I certainly meant I wanted it in miles. Thanks Google!
PlotFTIR v1.3.0 is now on CRAN!
It now provides pretty printing for ingested spectral dataframes, showing spectral range, resolution, intensity type, number of samples, and sample IDs. 💅🖨️
A few other bugfixes were included too. 🐜
#Rstats
It now provides pretty printing for ingested spectral dataframes, showing spectral range, resolution, intensity type, number of samples, and sample IDs. 💅🖨️
A few other bugfixes were included too. 🐜
#Rstats
PlotFTIR: Plot FTIR Spectra
The goal of 'PlotFTIR' is to easily and quickly kick-start the production of journal-quality Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FTIR) spectral plots in R using 'ggplot2'. The produced plots can be published...
cran.r-project.org
July 21, 2026 at 11:07 AM
PlotFTIR v1.3.0 is now on CRAN!
It now provides pretty printing for ingested spectral dataframes, showing spectral range, resolution, intensity type, number of samples, and sample IDs. 💅🖨️
A few other bugfixes were included too. 🐜
#Rstats
It now provides pretty printing for ingested spectral dataframes, showing spectral range, resolution, intensity type, number of samples, and sample IDs. 💅🖨️
A few other bugfixes were included too. 🐜
#Rstats
Ils sont terribles!
July 18, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Ils sont terribles!
Air quality: 9/10 (derogatory)
July 18, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Air quality: 9/10 (derogatory)
"Another country is suffering natural disasters, I should charge my own people some tax on the other country's goods until the other country stops experiencing their natural disasters."
July 18, 2026 at 1:36 AM
"Another country is suffering natural disasters, I should charge my own people some tax on the other country's goods until the other country stops experiencing their natural disasters."
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Advertising instrumentation as not requiring an expert on staff leads to disgruntled customers when they have a week of downtime and a $5000 service call for a loose cable. It also alienates your most vocal proponents for purchasing new instruments.
FATHOM The world's first quantum-enabled EPR spectrometer. See the protein dynamics that other techniques can't — with less sample, in less time, and without an EPR expert on staff highqtechnologies.com/fathom #NMRchat 🧲
July 15, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Advertising instrumentation as not requiring an expert on staff leads to disgruntled customers when they have a week of downtime and a $5000 service call for a loose cable. It also alienates your most vocal proponents for purchasing new instruments.
Wet hot climate-change summer.
July 14, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Wet hot climate-change summer.
Controversy? At the World Cup? You don't say!
July 11, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Controversy? At the World Cup? You don't say!
While most of you plebs were working yesterday, I was enjoying the great outdoors (dropping 4 cm of rain on me while I set up camp).
July 10, 2026 at 12:57 PM
While most of you plebs were working yesterday, I was enjoying the great outdoors (dropping 4 cm of rain on me while I set up camp).
Best half of soccer in CAN history! Let's get something on the board in part 2. 🇨🇦
July 4, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Best half of soccer in CAN history! Let's get something on the board in part 2. 🇨🇦
I have a party scheduled in a few weeks, can I get a flyby past my personal residence too?
Tomorrow, July 4, look up around 6:30 pm when the Royal Canadian Air Force is scheduled to perform a fly-past over the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Rockcliffe during Independence Day celebrations.
July 3, 2026 at 8:20 PM
I have a party scheduled in a few weeks, can I get a flyby past my personal residence too?
Today, we're proud to announce our participation in the Lab Floods experience! This natural disaster sequel to Lab Power Failures seemed like a logical next step for our group.
Both are based on the well know Lab HVAC Control Issues, which has been a cultural phenom since the development of labs.
Both are based on the well know Lab HVAC Control Issues, which has been a cultural phenom since the development of labs.
July 2, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Today, we're proud to announce our participation in the Lab Floods experience! This natural disaster sequel to Lab Power Failures seemed like a logical next step for our group.
Both are based on the well know Lab HVAC Control Issues, which has been a cultural phenom since the development of labs.
Both are based on the well know Lab HVAC Control Issues, which has been a cultural phenom since the development of labs.
Absolutely insane amount of lightning in this storm. #OttWx #OttawaWeather
July 1, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Absolutely insane amount of lightning in this storm. #OttWx #OttawaWeather
A car stranded anywhere on a live track in qualifying should immediately be a double yellow flag and all cars through that sector should lose the lap. Anything less is gambling with drivers' lives. #F1 #AustrianGP
June 27, 2026 at 4:59 PM
A car stranded anywhere on a live track in qualifying should immediately be a double yellow flag and all cars through that sector should lose the lap. Anything less is gambling with drivers' lives. #F1 #AustrianGP