Kevin Gould

@kevingould

News Producer for CTV Montreal. Motorcycle rider. Chef. Racists and sexists and misogynists are pathetic. They are blunt declarations that the belief-holder cannot compete on an even playing field.

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Kevin Gould@kevingould· Jun 26

Riding a motorcyle is best!

A Yamaha XSR 700 motorcyle loaded with several bags

Two young girls sitting on a parked motorcyle

Kevin Gould@kevingould· Jun 7

Understanding Quebec politics is sometimes like this.

Bob the angry flower holds a pineapple. The word 'pamplemousse' is written across the top, even though 'pamplemousse' means grapefruit.

Kevin Gould@kevingould· Apr 18

Too nice to cook indoors...

An outdoor camping stove with two pots on it. In front are a can of tomatoes, tomato sauce, and several small pots of spices.

Kevin Gould@kevingould· Feb 7

The mistakes being made in fighting fascism. dgardner.substack.com/p/weimar-ger...

In the fascist telling, an average person has only two options: You can side with us — the people who love the nation you call home, the people who say you and the nation are good, the people who say you should be proud of who you are. Or you can side with them — the people who hate this nation, who call you and your country wicked, who say you should be ashamed.

If people accept that framing, the fascists win. Hands down.

And the fascists know it.

Kevin Gould@kevingould· Jan 20

AI is being marketed to cut jobs--and the people left will be doing more work and be blamed when the AI fails

no one is investing hundreds of billions in AI companies because they think AI will make radiology more expensive, not even if that also makes radiology more accurate. The market’s bet on AI is that an AI salesman will visit the CEO of Kaiser and make this pitch: “Look, you fire nine out of 10 of your radiologists, saving $20m a year. You give us $10m a year, and you net $10m a year, and the remaining radiologists’ job will be to oversee the diagnoses the AI makes at superhuman speed – and somehow remain vigilant as they do so, despite the fact that the AI is usually right, except when it’s catastrophically wrong.

“And if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist’s fault, because they are the ‘human in the loop’. It’s their signature on the diagnosis.”

Kevin Gould@kevingould· Sep 21

Straight from the people making AI: All AI systems make stuff up because they were (inadvertently) designed to lie. arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04664

Like students facing hard exam questions, large language models sometimes guess when
uncertain, producing plausible yet incorrect statements instead of admitting uncertainty. Such
“hallucinations” persist even in state-of-the-art systems and undermine trust. We argue that
language models hallucinate because the training and evaluation procedures reward guessing over
acknowledging uncertainty, and we analyze the statistical causes of hallucinations in the modern
training pipeline. Hallucinations need not be mysterious—they originate simply as errors in binary
classification. If incorrect statements cannot be distinguished from facts, then hallucinations
in pretrained language models will arise through natural statistical pressures. We then argue
that hallucinations persist due to the way most evaluations are graded—language models are
optimized to be good test-takers, and guessing when uncertain improves test performance. This
“epidemic” of penalizing uncertain responses can only be addressed through a socio-technical
mitigation: modifying the scoring of existing benchmarks that are misaligned but dominate
leaderboards, rather than introducing additional hallucination evaluations. This change may
steer the field toward more trustworthy AI systems.

Kevin Gould@kevingould· May 31

Thanks for the fun night!

People dancing to Stayin' Alive in Girouard Park in NDG, Montreal

Kevin Gould@kevingould· Apr 2

When people say certain territories need protection it's always a threat. dgardner.substack.com/p/beware-the...

Newspaper clipping of German invasion of Denmark and Norway, showing that Germany claimed it was "protecting" those countries from other threats.

Kevin Gould@kevingould· Feb 18

For some reason @montreal.ca is calling these streets in CDN-NDG "cleared of snow"

A pedestrian attempts to walk on a sidewalk that is buried under 74 cm of snow, next to 3-metre-wide bank of snow, in NDG, Montreal on Feb. 18, 2025

Mounds of snow as tall as a person sit in the strets of NDG, Montreal on Feb. 18, 2025

Kevin Gould@kevingould· Feb 16

I picked a great day to ski to the library and get a snack with my beloved

Two people cross-country skiing on a bike path. A man wearing ski googles in the foreground, a woman wearing a red toque with a pompom behind him.

Kevin Gould@kevingould· Jan 25

If nothing else in life, I put on a welcoming spread #RobbieBurns

A charcuterie board with meat, cheese, fruit, veg. Bowls of olives and hummus. Crackers. Baguette. And lots of whiskey.

Kevin Gould@kevingould· Jan 24

Far more positive than my new glass

A pint of beer in a glass showing a turkey buzzard and the slogan "Powered by Spite"

Kevin Gould@kevingould· Nov 14

Coming up tonight on CTV Montreal--a retrospective on Les Cowboys Fringants and the two solitudes

Kevin Gould@kevingould· Sep 17

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #178,410!

It's a big board with the number #178,410, indicating I've been on Bluesky for a long time.

Kevin Gould@kevingould· Dec 16

Enter Sandman

A snowman, but made of sand, sitting on a beach with a Christmas hat

Kevin Gould@kevingould· Nov 1

My youngest as Coraline @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com

A child dressed as Coraline, in front of an inflated Halloween arch decorated with spiders

A child dressed as Coraline, in front of an inflated Halloween arch decorated with spiders, during the day

Kevin Gould@kevingould· Aug 12

One of my friends is a goddamn joker and nobody admits it

Kevin Gould@kevingould· Jul 21

My kid has a lot of patience

A small model of an exterior living space with plants, flowers, a patio set and more

A small model of an exterior living space with plants, flowers, a patio set and more, illuminated by an overhead light

Kevin Gould@kevingould· Jul 17

I had to redo my roof last year and borough bylaws require a white roof...

Kevin Gould@kevingould· Jul 9

The concept of “free” social networking is a kind of unspoken social-financial contract that only exists as long as operators understand the value that users are creating. https://wheresyoured.at/p/the-end-of-the-honest-internet?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

Kevin Gould@kevingould· Jul 9

Missing teen in Montreal. Jeanne Bourque, 18 y/o, was last seen in the La-Petite-Patrie area. Investigators have reasons to fear for her health and safety.

Missing Montreal 18 year old Jeanne Bourque

Kevin Gould@kevingould· Jul 4

The only reason to take a selfie sitting down is if you're climbing a mountain in a silly fun vehicle