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Keith Lawson
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CISO @lhsc.on.ca | D.Eng Student exploring the Alberta Plan & Reinforcement Learning | Linux grey beard (Debian 🌀) | Building resilient healthcare infrastructure through SRE & AI. 🌐 blog.9600baud.net
Google also recently estimated that the median Gemini LLM app query produces a surprisingly low 0.03 grams of CO2 emissions), and uses less energy than watching 9 seconds of television.

#ai #environment
January 21, 2026 at 11:33 AM
" For example, many enterprise on-prem compute facilities use whatever power is available on the grid, which might include a mix of older, dirtier energy sources. Hyperscalers use far more renewable energy."
January 21, 2026 at 11:33 AM
The goal: Healthcare applications of RL in alignment with the Alberta Plan.

Extremely excited to start this journey!

#RL #AlbertaPlan #DEng #AIresearch
January 17, 2026 at 10:19 AM
The result? Direct-to-provider production orders that bypass sovereign gatekeeping.

Unless you own the keys (BYOK) or use purely Canadian-owned infra, you aren't protected.

#DataSovereignty #infosec #Cybersecurity

Great deep dive by @citizenlab.ca on this erosion: citizenlab.ca/research/can...
Canada-U.S. Cross-Border Surveillance Negotiations Raise Constitutional and Human Rights Whirlwind under U.S. CLOUD Act - The Citizen Lab
Legal researchers Cynthia Khoo and Kate Robertson warn that a Canada-U.S. CLOUD agreement would extend the reach of U.S. law enforcement into Canada’s digital terrain to an unprecedented extent, and t...
citizenlab.ca
January 16, 2026 at 10:22 AM
That law established that jurisdiction follows the corporation, not the dirt. If your provider is US-owned, the US government has legal reach into those "Canadian" servers, bypassing the transparent MLAT process.
January 16, 2026 at 10:22 AM
I'm really curious to know whether clinicians would see this as a welcome addition to the patient experience or a hinderance.

openai.com/index/introd...
Introducing ChatGPT Health
A dedicated experience in ChatGPT designed for health and wellness.
openai.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:46 AM
From the article: "Today, health information is often scattered across portals, apps, wearables, PDFs, and medical notes—so it's hard to see the full picture, and people are left to navigate a complex healthcare system on their own. "
January 14, 2026 at 8:46 AM
It appears as if they've put appropriate controls in to protect the sensitivity of the patient data being sent to this isolated environment. Note that we are not using this at LHSC and it has not been assessed for use in Canadian healthcare to my knowledge. Just posting as a discussion point.
January 14, 2026 at 8:46 AM
I'm more excited than terrified. This isn't 80% layoff, it's huge productivity gains for your qualified engineers.
January 12, 2026 at 11:31 AM
I was doing the same and ended up with a feed of genx music. The feed filtering algorithm still produces some inaccurate results but it was fun to play with the AT protocol and firehose feed a bit.

Very cool being able to interact with the platform at this level!

github.com/j-klawson/ge...
GitHub - j-klawson/genx-music-bluesky-feed: An example of Bluesky custom feed server implementation in Python 🐍
An example of Bluesky custom feed server implementation in Python 🐍 - j-klawson/genx-music-bluesky-feed
github.com
January 11, 2026 at 12:25 PM
I only managed a handful of HP-UX machines and it certainly wasn’t my favourite Unix but somehow I’m still sad to see it go. Nostalgia I guess.
January 7, 2026 at 1:55 AM