Cam Macdonell

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Cam Macdonell

Cam Macdonell

@cjmacdonell

assoc professor of computer science at @macewanu

Katılım Ekim 2010
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Cam Macdonell@cjmacdonell·
Hey @takeETSalert you really should’ve posted by now that the Valley LRT has been in an accident and is not running.
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Amy Welborn@amywelborn2·
Evelyn Waugh on Ash Wednesday in New Orleans, written for LIFE magazine: "….There is witchcraft in New Orleans, as there was at the court of Mme. de Montespan. Yet it was there that I saw one of the most moving sights of my tour. Ash Wednesday; warm rain falling in streets unsightly with the draggled survivals of carnival. The Roosevelt Hotel overflowing with crapulous tourists planning their return journeys. How many of them knew anything about Lent? But across the way the Jesuit Church was teeming with life all day long; a continuous, dense crowd of all colors and conditions moving up to the altar rails and returning with their foreheads signed with ash. And the old grim message was being repeated over each penitent: ‘Dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return.’ One grows parched for that straight style of speech in the desert of modern euphemisms…"
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Tamara Winter@tamarawinter·
Love seeing @stewartbrand in the @NewYorker, writing about three of the books that informed MAINTENANCE. New to me: THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT by Arthur Herman, about Scotland’s particular contributions to the modern world: newyorker.com/books/book-cur…
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I’m here for all of it. Go Scotland!
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Craig Kuziemsky@CKuziemsky·
A gorgeous red sunset on November 9, 2025.
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taoki
taoki@justalexoki·
brother does NOT know what tldr means
Sam Altman@sama

Yesterday we did a livestream. TL;DR: We have set internal goals of having an automated AI research intern by September of 2026 running on hundreds of thousands of GPUs, and a true automated AI researcher by March of 2028. We may totally fail at this goal, but given the extraordinary potential impacts we think it is in the public interest to be transparent about this. We have a safety strategy that relies on 5 layers: Value alignment, Goal alignment, Reliability, Adversarial robustness, and System safety. Chain-of-thought faithfulness is a tool we are particularly excited about, but it somewhat fragile and requires drawing a boundary and a clear abstraction. On the product side, we are trying to move towards a true platform, where people and companies building on top of our offerings will capture most of the value. Today people can build on our API and apps in ChatGPT; eventually, we want to offer an AI cloud that enables huge businesses. We have currently committed to about 30 gigawatts of compute, with a total cost of ownership over the years of about $1.4 trillion. We are comfortable with this given what we see on the horizon for model capability growth and revenue growth. We would like to do more—we would like to build an AI factory that can make 1 gigawatt per week of new capacity, at a greatly reduced cost relative to today—but that will require more confidence in future models, revenue, and technological/financial innovation. Our new structure is much simpler than our old one. We have a non-profit called OpenAI Foundation that governs a Public Benefit Corporation called OpenAI Group. The foundation initially owns 26% of the PBC, but it can increase with warrants over time if the PBC does super well. The PBC can attract the resources needed to achieve the mission. Our mission, for both our non-profit and PBC, remains the same: to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The nonprofit is initially committing $25 billion to health and curing disease, and AI resilience (all of the things that could help society have a successful transition to a post-AGI world, including technical safety but also things like economic impact, cyber security, and much more). The nonprofit now has the ability to actually deploy capital relatively quickly, unlike before. In 2026 we expect that our AI systems may be able to make small new discoveries; in 2028 we could be looking at big ones. This is a really big deal; we think that science, and the institutions that let us widely distribute the fruits of science, are the most important ways that quality of life improves over time.

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Steve McGuire
Steve McGuire@sfmcguire79·
Harvard reports that it is “failing to perform the key functions of grading.” Its grading practices are “damaging the academic culture of the College.” “Faculty newly arrived at Harvard are surprised at how leniently our courses are graded.” Students say academics feel “fake.”
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In these times of great ugliness, here is one of the most beautifully narrated clips I can recall by the late Robert Redford. youtu.be/OsDnrFBpsBk
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There was no joy in Mudville…
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Cam Macdonell@cjmacdonell·
Embarrassing behaviour by the Edmonton Jubilee Auditorium audience at Tina last night. - At least 4 phones went off. - People feeling entitled to yell at Ike’s character during a dramatic scene. It is just so utterly disrespectful. Learn how to behave in a theatre.
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Troy Pavlek
Troy Pavlek@troypavlek·
Tim Cartmell spent tens of thousands of dollars to get his "survey" in the mailboxes of every Edmontonian in the city. Like everything we've seen so far from his campaign, the competence in execution is very, very low Is "Type Option 4" a new political party I haven't heard of?
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Lamest thing about the NFL - they hand the trophy to the owner.
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Cam Macdonell@cjmacdonell·
@KellyHrudey @hrudfam You and your daughter spoke at the @CMHA_NTL breakfast in Edmonton a few years ago. I still remember it. Your openness then and now are so incredibly helpful to changing perspectives and breaking the stigma. Peace to you.
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Kelly Hrudey
Kelly Hrudey@KellyHrudey·
Most know I’m dealing with things mentally. I was extremely anxious about the pre-game tonight. Close to a panic attack. Proud of myself, I got through it, as difficult as it was. Tonight was a big, big WIN!!! @hrudfam
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