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Kristjan Backman

@KristjanBackman

Entrepreneur, investor, husband, dad to two great kids. Long-distance swimmer. Proud Canadian. Commenting on economics, energy, politics and business.

Canada Katılım Eylül 2010
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Michael Girdley
Michael Girdley@girdley·
First rule of business: Don't do work for free.
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Kristjan Backman
Kristjan Backman@KristjanBackman·
@james_xond I should add that my interest rate was 11.75%, the house cost $40,500, and I lost money when I sold it.
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James 𝕏ond
James 𝕏ond@james_xond·
Trying to prove a point. How old were you when you became a homeowner for the first time?
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Mario Tomic
Mario Tomic@mariotomich·
How much weight does this guy need to lose to get visible abs? For context, he's 5ft 10 and 220 lbs on a good day.
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Kristjan Backman
Kristjan Backman@KristjanBackman·
@BPD1776 I have no idea. I had two little kids with me, and I was trying to keep them out of the fray. I think it was too much testosterone all around.
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Kristjan Backman
Kristjan Backman@KristjanBackman·
I’m told it’s a “U-Net-based semantic segmentation model. The training setup followed the PyImageSearch segmentation pattern: labeled semantic masks, augmentation only on the training set, and IoU/Dice scores for evaluation. I the training set up has changed however still U-Net” Might as well be Latin to me.
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Marco Franzon
Marco Franzon@mfranz_on·
@KristjanBackman Wow awesome! 10 days of training are a lot, which model did you use, a yolo based one?
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Marco Franzon
Marco Franzon@mfranz_on·
The future of agriculture lies in optimization. A system like this costs very little: a drone with a camera and a computer vision system accurate enough to count and identify plants or diseases. It's so easy that anyone can make it at home for their own crops.
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Kristjan Backman
Kristjan Backman@KristjanBackman·
We did no screens/TV at all until they were 5. We started with a little tv/movies at 5. Tons of books, puzzles, games, and activities. The school has a BYOD computer policy that starts in grade 5 so the kids got computers then. They had access to messaging apps and were connected to friends. No cellphones until grade 9, which was the start of high school. Both kids turned out fine; they did complain a little. If that is the only thing they have to tell their therapists about, I am cool with that. I worry more about my screen usage than theirs.
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JMAC | Men’s Health Coach
Dads... I need your advice. As a young dad myself, I’m genuinely worried about my son growing up addicted to screens, phones, games, etc. It feels like EVERYTHING is designed to grab their attention these days. So I want to ask: - How do you actually manage screen time in your house? - What’s worked for you? - What’s failed? Would appreciate real answers from people who’ve been there 🤝
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Autism Capital 🧩
Autism Capital 🧩@AutismCapital·
Bryan's arm is in the sun. He needs to get it tested immediately. He may have accidentally received a UV. He may need to chop it off.
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M&A Focused CPA
M&A Focused CPA@BoilerPlateCPA·
Diligencing a $3m cash basis HVAC company’s quickbooks desktop file:
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Javier Blas
Javier Blas@JavierBlas·
Now that Iran says it won’t charge tolls but “fees” for services, let me re-up this @Opinion column published in early April: “…Tolls can be called something else that’s politically acceptable; say, pilotage services or oil-spillage prevention fees…” bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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Neil Stone
Neil Stone@DrNeilStone·
All the numbers come out of the DR Congo 🇨🇩 Ebola outbreak are bad bad bad Really bad
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Charlie Bilello
Charlie Bilello@charliebilello·
The S&P 500 is at an all-time high while Consumer Sentiment is at an all-time low. We've never seen a gap this wide between Wall Street and Main Street.
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Kekius Maximus
Kekius Maximus@Kekius_Sage·
If humans go extinct, which animal could build the next civilization?
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Kristjan Backman
Kristjan Backman@KristjanBackman·
@anasalhajji The oil reserve is for the invasion of Taiwan. Oil is a constraint for China, they won’t give up that reserve and corner their foreign policy.
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Anas Alhajji
Anas Alhajji@anasalhajji·
🚨The biggest mistake I made during the Hormuz Crisis was assuming China would release massive amounts of oil from its oil inventories as prices rose. It didn’t. ⭕️But something important has been overlooked in recent weeks by media and most analysts: the halt in inventory building necessarily means lower oil imports! 🎯This makes media reports claiming China is relying heavily on inventories proportionally to the decline in imports inaccurate. 👇👇👇
Anas Alhajji@anasalhajji

🚨"Oil Market Update: Debunking Narratives and Misinformation" #Iran #Hormuz #Trump #China Here is the recording: x.com/i/spaces/1mxPa…

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Kristjan Backman@KristjanBackman·
@JoshRainerGold Go to a masters swim meet. The deck is covered in people who are lean and athletic with good muscle tone, bone structure, and posture.
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Josh Rainer
Josh Rainer@JoshRainerGold·
These people were not skinny they were lean and athletic with good muscle tone, bone structure, and posture. They don’t really exist anymore due to modern food and weightlifting trends so people now are either very muscular, very skinny, or fat. This is normal and healthy.
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European ⚔️ Revolution@EuropeanRevolt

@mrwittmayer If you ever watch old film reels a lot of the men seem to be incredibly skinny by modern standards This has led me to believe that being "twinkish" is actually the more normal and natural way for a man to be. Thoughts?

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