Phil McNeil

I used Twitter for free for 13 years. When @elonmusk bought it, I had to ante up for the checkmark . Free speech ain’t free. Thanks for the town square @X, much appreciated.

@mattgurney I’ve signed mou’s without fully u.

I sign fucking MOUs left, right and centre and none of you jackasses give a shit.

@WiFiWalrus @TristinHopper He is Canada moral leader.

@TristinHopper LMAO I’m not sure why you think you get to make the final decision on what is and is not funny, especially since the episode hasn’t even aired.

I have often said Canada is rife for a Borat-style critique of our many, many ridiculous hypocritical norms. But instead, here's some activists taking taxpayer money in order to target women who have lost their jobs for opposing official reconciliation narratives.

@cowboy6433 @dom_lucre That’s awesome. It’d be a great family to be part of.

@PhilMcNeil @dom_lucre Speak for yourself, they don’t hate me, they treat me like family!

🔥🚨DEVELOPING: Ukrainian businessman, Igor Lytvynchuk who threw a rock at a monk seal in Maui Hawaii which is one of the rarest marine mammals in the world was beat by the locals attempted to stay anonymous so Hawaii awarded him as "Aloha Ambassador.” To destroy any attempt to remain hidden. The witnesses allegedly tried to stop the man, but they claim he laughed and said he was rich enough to pay any fines. There are only about 1,600 monk seals left and they can only be found in Hawaii. "We've all seen the video of the Monk Seal that almost got hit by the rock" "Some of us have seen the environmental activist, as I like to call him, who took matters into his own hands to educate what might happen if you mess with our land"

It’s split into thirds. 1/3 want to go, 1/3 want to stay, 1/3 are unsure. The 1/3 who isn’t sure are the key. Regular people who feel it may be wrong, but see a bad future if we stay. A lot can happen in the next 4 months. The collapse of cusma is imminent, the auto biz is doomed. Steel, Aluminum and forestry are on the ropes. Once the real pain starts to set in, that 1/3 will come around. We’re leaving. It’s happening.

Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney says he thinks hardcore separatists in his province are in the "single digits," and the rest of the movement is made up of "frustrated federalists who know separatism doesn't work...but they want to send a message"

The deficit is coming down 📉 Home prices and rents are coming down 📉 The GDP is going up 📈 Non-U.S. exports are going up 📈 Why? Because our plan is starting to pay off. We are empowering workers, we are investing in Canada and we are Building 🇨🇦 Strong.

@TristinHopper I like those plates. They’re part of our culture.

Breakfast is always extra great in the days after I get invited to conferences.

@TristinHopper Wife and I went halfers on 2 sets. We have 2 millennials and 12 years later we had 2 Z’s. The Zed’s are savage. Fucking savage.

Generation Z never experienced a Canada that was almost entirely devoid of racial animosity. It's explicitly racist programs like this that are absolutely supercharging it.

@yegwave @primetimecrime

Edmonton police have charged a 21-year-old daycare employee with sexual assault following a reported incident involving a child, and say more complainants may come forward. According to the Edmonton Police Service, a parent contacted officers on April 8 about an incident at a west Edmonton daycare. Investigators identified a teaching assistant as the suspect. He was suspended by his employer, and his childcare certification was also suspended. On April 21, police arrested 21-year-old Kulraj Singh. He has been charged with sexual assault and sexual interference. Police say he also worked at a second daycare in central Edmonton.

@SportsOnlyAZ @Martyupnorth 2019 yotee? Still smells like salesman.

@Martyupnorth I bought a brand new Dodge 2500 Cummins Turbo Diesel Quad Cab from a south Edmonton dealer in 2006, drove that thing until 2020 when I purchased a new 2019 Toyota Tundra SR5 Crewmax in Victoria, BC, where we lived at that time. I'll drive that Toyota another 10 years.

Annual vehicle sales in Alberta have been flat for a decade, even though our population increased by almost 20%. I think vehicles have simply become way too expensive, so people are driving them longer. What do you think?

@Martyupnorth My oldest ford is a 1914 and my newest is a 2018. The cost and reliability of the new ones is terrifying.

Varley & his partner John are accused of se#ually assaulting 14 month old baby who they were in the process of formally adopting. Jamie Varley, a teacher! Then filmed as the baby lay dying on the bed. He had over 40 injuries What should be the punishment for these monsters?

On a per-person basis, Canada is attracting more foreign investment than any other G7 country - roughly double the next closest and our highest level in 18 years. More investment means more jobs, more growth, and more opportunity.

@nspector4 My 80s hash dealer runs a trim saw at a soon-to-be-shuttered mill. By that metric, ol’ Dougie boy did splendid. Almost had a jet.

A Canadian LGBT activist and the founder of Innisfil Pride has appeared in court on charges of sex trafficking. Jake Tucker, who has a baby he obtained through surrogacy with his husband, is also facing sexual assault charges. reduxx.info/canada-local-p…

@sciencegirl Heat, time, butter.

@Ham_BklynWx Of I had a fraidy hole, it’d be awesome.

@brivael Holy shit. It’s good to be reminded that I’m kinda dumb.

Aujourd'hui grosse discussion avec mes ingés (chez Argil) sur pourquoi Elon a viré le LIDAR de ses voitures autonomes. Choix radical, moqué pendant des années, et comme d'hab il avait raison depuis le début. Le LIDAR c'est un laser qui balaye l'environnement et crache un nuage de points 3D. Sur le papier tu obtiens la géométrie exacte du monde. Dans la vraie vie c'est une verrue technologique collée sur le toit parce qu'on sait pas faire mieux avec la vision seule. Problème numéro un : ça rajoute une modalité dans le training du modèle. Ton réseau doit apprendre à fusionner vision + lidar + radar + ultrasons. Chaque capteur en plus c'est une source de désaccord à arbitrer, pas une source d'info supplémentaire. Sensor fusion artisanale = dette technique permanente. Problème numéro deux, la bitter lesson de Rich Sutton : scaler le compute sur une seule modalité bat systématiquement les architectures bricolées à la main. Tesla a dropé le radar, puis les ultrasons, est passé full end-to-end vision. Leur courbe sur les edge cases s'est accélérée APRÈS, pas avant. Waymo fait l'inverse et reste stuck en ops géofencée. Problème numéro trois, le plus fondamental : le LIDAR voit la géométrie, pas la sémantique. Il sait qu'il y a un truc, pas ce que c'est ni ce que ça va faire. Les derniers 9 de fiabilité sont des problèmes de cognition, pas de perception brute. Un capteur de plus résout rien, il ajoute du bruit. Sébastien Loeb balance une 208 T16 à 180 dans un chemin boueux corse sous la pluie avec zéro LIDAR. Deux yeux, un cerveau. L'évolution a donné des yeux aux prédateurs pendant 500 millions d'années, pas des lasers. Il y a une raison. Le LIDAR c'est l'équivalent du marxisme appliqué à l'économie. Une solution planifiée, centralisée, qui prétend modéliser explicitement ce qui doit émerger d'un système distribué et adaptatif. Tu remplaces l'intelligence par de la mesure, la compréhension par de la donnée, l'émergence par le contrôle. Ça rassure les ingénieurs qui veulent tout spécifier en amont, exactement comme la planif rassurait les économistes soviétiques. Et ça échoue pour les mêmes raisons : la réalité est trop riche pour être capturée par un capteur, comme elle est trop riche pour être capturée par un plan quinquennal. La vraie intelligence, celle de Hayek comme celle de Tesla, c'est de faire confiance à un système qui apprend de l'expérience plutôt que de tout pré-encoder. L'élégance d'une solution c'est son rapport signal sur complexité. Le LIDAR explose le dénominateur. Défendre le LIDAR en 2026 c'est préférer empiler des hacks plutôt que résoudre le vrai problème. C'est de la feignasserie intellectuelle maquillée en rigueur d'ingénieur. Les mêmes gens qui défendaient les systèmes experts en 2012 contre le deep learning. Ils finiront pareil. Never bet against end-to-end. Never bet against la simplicité. Never bet against Elon.

@TristinHopper I wish I knew now what I knew when I was 19.

When I was 19, I though that if Canada just decided to blow out the budget with wartime deficits for a few years, we could pepper the landscape with infrastructure and be set for decades. We *did* blow out the deficit, and literally everything is worse everywhere forever.

@ronsterd89 Excellent trigger discipline.

What does my hand say about me