GM @nominal_io Frmr CEO/cofounder @plotlygraphs Published physicist @stanford

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Joined June 2022
Build baby build 🇨🇦
Scale like this doesn't happen by accident. High agency, long time horizons, and a willingness to actually ship. More of this, Canada.
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Build baby build 🇨🇦 Churchill Falls + Gull Island == up to ~12 GW of hydro 🌊 And @hydroquebec already operates 37GW of hydro 🤯
The scale of what Canada is building is hard to overstate: --Churchill Falls = roughly 9 nuclear reactors worth of clean power. --Pacific Link = an oil export route approaching the consumption of the entire UK. --LNG Canada Phase 2 = enough gas to equal roughly half of Canada’s domestic consumption.
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The statue of Prometheus is finally finished. It was cast in Paris, crossed the Atlantic, and was assembled at Starbase. It took us 100 days to go from nothing to this. People of the West, we have lived through an era devoid of dreams, devoid of destiny. But the time has come to reclaim our dream of antiquity. In a few months, we will start building a new city. It will be the most magnificent city in all of history. After all, the great dream of the West has always been to rebuild Rome. Come walk beside us in this endeavor. The world is waiting.
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North America’s strongest “I could live here” cities: 1. Montreal 2. New York 3. Chicago 4. Mexico City 5. Toronto
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5 y/o daughter, opening a new toy: ... "i'm so happy!" me: "i'm happy when you're happy" 5 y/o: "no, i'm happy when you're happy!" 2 y/o daughter: "wut?" 5 y/o: "we're having a fight of love" 5 y/o: "it's nice to have a fight of love; it's not nice to have a fight when you're angry" how sweet is that?
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Yes please 🫡 (cc @harleyf)
Replying to @MarkJCarney
@MarkJCarney - check this out. Let’s do this with the Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre. Also, let’s find more things in NRC and DRDC that we can commercialize. Thanks, Eliot
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Like children, you're not supposed to have a favorite customer, but the @AntaresNuclear team comes damn close. Nice to see @jordanbramble and crew today.
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.@harleyf I founded this Montréal startup with McGill undergrads who’d all interned at Shopify and met @tobi. Almost all have since moved to the US - to work at @JaneStreetGroup, @Citadel, or start YC companies. I folded the startup to join @Nominal_io. The Québec brain drain is real. Even at 19, top-of-class McGill CS students already believed “Québec was cooked.” We need to create more compelling, in-province opps for top 0.1% new grads. techcrunch.com/2023/08/29/fl…
Quebec is 53rd out of 54. Among Canada's four biggest provinces and all 50 US states, only Mississippi has a lower GDP per person. That should bother every one of us. I moved back to Montreal three years ago. On purpose. It's one of the most unique places in the world to live. And I've never been anywhere with more entrepreneurs per square foot. Everyone I meet is building something. It's personal for me too. My family came to Quebec to escape the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. They got their start running small businesses. Quebec (and Canada) gave them a chance. Lindsay and I want our daughters, and their kids, to stay here and see what I see. But these numbers are hard to ignore (and insanely scary): - The average Quebecer's share of the economy is more than $5,500 a year smaller than the average Ontarian's. Last of Canada's four biggest provinces. - Every hour of work here produces about $22 less than the average of 19 advanced economies. In 1981, that gap was under $3. - Our businesses invest $11,455 less per worker in equipment, technology and software. Less investment means lower wages. - We start new businesses at a lower rate than Ontario and the rest of Canada. For more than 20 years straight. This isn't abstract. It's wages. Housing. Hospitals. Schools. We can't be in the bottom 10% economically and expect top 10% social services. Andrew Lutfy of Groupe Dynamite and Alain Bouchard, founder of Couche-Tard, just made this case in open letters in La Presse. They're right. Creating wealth is our job as entrepreneurs. And as Andrew put it, if the Habs finished near the bottom every year, nobody here would shrug. So why do we accept it with our economy? On October 5, whoever you vote for, ask them one question: what's your plan to make Quebec richer? It doesn't have to be this way. We can just choose ambition. We can just choose building. We can just choose to win.
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Bien dit! La Belle Province has so much going for it - hydro, childcare, aluminum smelting, joie de vivre, AI & research universities, the world’s 3rd-largest aerospace cluster… she only needs help getting out of her own way pour en profiter.
Quebec is 53rd out of 54. Among Canada's four biggest provinces and all 50 US states, only Mississippi has a lower GDP per person. That should bother every one of us. I moved back to Montreal three years ago. On purpose. It's one of the most unique places in the world to live. And I've never been anywhere with more entrepreneurs per square foot. Everyone I meet is building something. It's personal for me too. My family came to Quebec to escape the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. They got their start running small businesses. Quebec (and Canada) gave them a chance. Lindsay and I want our daughters, and their kids, to stay here and see what I see. But these numbers are hard to ignore (and insanely scary): - The average Quebecer's share of the economy is more than $5,500 a year smaller than the average Ontarian's. Last of Canada's four biggest provinces. - Every hour of work here produces about $22 less than the average of 19 advanced economies. In 1981, that gap was under $3. - Our businesses invest $11,455 less per worker in equipment, technology and software. Less investment means lower wages. - We start new businesses at a lower rate than Ontario and the rest of Canada. For more than 20 years straight. This isn't abstract. It's wages. Housing. Hospitals. Schools. We can't be in the bottom 10% economically and expect top 10% social services. Andrew Lutfy of Groupe Dynamite and Alain Bouchard, founder of Couche-Tard, just made this case in open letters in La Presse. They're right. Creating wealth is our job as entrepreneurs. And as Andrew put it, if the Habs finished near the bottom every year, nobody here would shrug. So why do we accept it with our economy? On October 5, whoever you vote for, ask them one question: what's your plan to make Quebec richer? It doesn't have to be this way. We can just choose ambition. We can just choose building. We can just choose to win.
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my spirit animal is a suburban mom 🍷 🧊 🪴
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A diet coke + amaro is basically a frigo sigaretta
A diet coke is basically a fridge cigarette
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beautiful place to build reactors
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VC as meat proxy... a significant improvement!
If you’re a founder with a decently technical product, you should probably assume you’re talking to a meat proxy at least 50% of the time you’re pitching VCs
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JP Parmer retweeted
Plotly.js 4.0 is out! 🥳 New trace type, many more customization options, lots of bug fixes, and a few low-key, strictly-better changes to the defaults. See the full release notes and examples here: plotly.com/blog/announcing-p….
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Gonna be a banger
DDR Memory Testing Webinar Series Starts September 23 Whether you're new to DDR validation or looking to improve your debug efficiency, this free four-part webinar series will take you from DDR testing fundamentals through advanced DDR PHY compliance, validation, and debug techniques. We look forward to seeing you on-line! Register here: lcry.us/4zRAa6m #TeledyneLeCroy #DDR #testandmeasurement
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JP Parmer retweeted
The solar power exponential will continue until all other energy sources are <<0.1%
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Excited to share the @Nominal_io x @aerovironment partnership - one of our biggest yet. Driving insights across the entire hardware development lifecycle with an intelligent platform. All systems Nominal! 🚀
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This deserves a Canadian Heritage Minute and nobody's talking about it... 🇨🇦 just rebuilt 4 nuclear reactors at Darlington. 4 months EARLY. C$150M UNDER budget. 3,512 MW locked in for 30+ years. Nuclear megaprojects NEVER come in early. Canada just did. How they pulled it off...
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.@mehul if i bought a @maticrobots in the US, then brought it to 🇨🇦 and plugged it into 🇨🇦 wifi, would it still work? je demand pour un ami
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Find a crew you can play the infinite game with 💪 all systems @Nominal_io
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