public policy of AI, with an industrial policy bend. Montreal based. tweets are my own, but feel free to like them!
Montreal, Quebec
Joined April 2011
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In my opinion, there are few live events like hockey. And, I’m not sure anything beats playoff hockey. Nobody in the world understands this like Canada, which is why it’s an honor and incredibly exciting for us to be the exclusive streaming partner of the @NHL for all national NHL regular season Monday night games for customers in Canada. We’re looking forward to delivering an amazing broadcasting experience for Canadian hockey fans. aboutamazon.ca/news/entertai…
This is wild.
Amazing that a chip bricked in 46-yr-old Voyager I, preventing it from sending data, and NASA figured out how to split up and reallocate its functions to other hardware, sending code 15 billion miles away (45 hours round trip!)--and Voyager's back online. blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/…
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My latest, on the budget: Growth crisis? What growth crisis?theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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“When I moved to Montreal, it was a vibrant, multilingual metropolis. Now François Legault is waging war on English and on the cosmopolitanism that makes it Canada’s greatest city.”
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We need to build things, make and export products, and embrace AI to get productivity up. No other way to maintain standard of living.
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Josh Allen fake slid and gained an extra 20 yards, later in the game he actually slid and the defender was forced to hit him because he was afraid of giving up a big play & was penalized for it.
This needs to be fixed by the NFL.
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A nice way to end the year with some data: 66 Good News Stories You Didn't Hear About in 2023 futurecrunch.com/goodnews202…
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National Bank Financial recalculated Canada's GDP per capita after the release of 3Q 🇨🇦 population data, which showed 3.2% population growth from year ago. Firm says Canada per-capita GDP fell a whopping 4.4% in 3Q. On WSJ wires:
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I was thinking just now about how my research program and funding at McGill has supported faculty and students at U de Montréal, U Sherbrooke, and U Laval (plus Concordia). McGill is not the aloof anglophone bubble some people think it is. At least not today.
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Anne Xuan-Lan Nguyen’s parents came to Canada as refugees from Vietnam. Her father became a cardiologist. Her mother became a family physician. And their daughter just became McGill’s 148th Rhodes Scholar reporter.mcgill.ca/keeping-h…
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Très bon texte de Yves Boisvert auj. J’ajouterais qu’en tant que francophone qui a fait son baccalauréat à #mcgill, j’ai bcp aimé y étudier. J’ai, de mon côté, toujours pu remettre mes travaux en français, si je le désirais, et je m’y suis senti très bien accueilli. @mcgillu
Renforcer les universités, au lieu de planter McGill lapresse.ca/actualites/chron…
Superbement articulé
Renforcer les universités, au lieu de planter McGill lapresse.ca/actualites/chron…
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What the CAQ government is doing to McGill University - where I did my undergrad - is a disaster. Narrow-minded, petty, counter-productive; the actions of a parochial and small nationalism. Bad for Quebec society in every way.
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Expecting 80% of students outside of QC to learn intermediate French is about as unrealistic as expecting immigrants to know French in 6 months. But, of course, neither is serious. It is just a way for the CAQ to urinate on the anglophones and allophones they clearly despise.
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Un faux recul et un geste qui rétrécît le Québec. D’une petitesse d’esprit inouïe.
1/3 Le 6 novembre, les universités McGill, Concordia et Bishop’s ont reconnu le déclin du français au Québec, particulièrement à Montréal, et ont manifesté la volonté d’en faire plus pour franciser les étudiants hors Québec. #polqc
Voici notre réponse aux trois universités.👇🏻
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Nick Cave's new tribute to Shane MacGowan, which doubles as a tribute to Sinéad O'Connor (from his newsletter, doesn't seem to be linkable yet)
"A beautiful and damaged man, who embodied a kind of purity and innocence and generosity and spiritual intelligence unlike any other."
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Ces femmes en grève lapresse.ca/actualites/chron…
The summer I turned 18, I « camped » - lived in the streets, really - in Banff. A nice guy took pity on me and let me crash in his van for a few weeks til I got a job, under the strict rule that the Pogues would play at all times, and I was not to say a word about it. A blessing.
Big week for us - great job team
Thank you, @RishiSunak, for convening this week’s AI Safety Summit. It was an honor to represent @Amazon for conversations with world leaders about the future of #AI and how we can innovate while fostering the safe, responsible, and secure development of this technology. As the benefits and capabilities of AI grow, so too does the importance of maintaining trust.
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In which I provide a bit of follow-up on Quebec's big tuition policy initiative. To me, the most interesting thing right now is the backlash among francophones. higheredstrategy.com/follow-…
