Stuart Thomson
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@stuartxthomson
Ottawa bureau chief at the National Post. Formerly: The Hub, Edmonton Journal, Mayerthorpe Freelancer.
A study linked various SAT test scores to favorite bands- the lowest SAT scorers preferred Lil’ Wayne, and the highest preferred Beethoven
CBA President Bianca Kratt, K.C., warns that recent media commentary questioning the impartiality of a sitting judge of the Ontario Superior Court risks undermining public confidence in the judiciary. 🔗 Read the full statement: bit.ly/4sQV4Pi
The CBA is scolding an unnamed journalist for criticizing a judge, calling it a "crude effort at undermining public confidence in the judiciary." Since this is clearly about me: I will not apologize for my column about Justice Faisal Mirza two weeks ago.
Fun Fact about Josh Allen He’s a girl dad
Get a special free look at Political Hack this week: Why Conservative should think about breaking up with Quebec. 👇 Link below.
imagine reading this and still thinking we’re months away from automating all white collar work
@OrphWettenhall @mattgurney I worked in a FedGov dept in an admin role 20y ago. Literally 95% of ATIPs landing on my desk were idiotic fishing expeditions from journos and NGOs looking for the next $16 glass of OJ on an expense claim. I was paid to waste taxpayers' money responding to this nonsense.
WATCH: PM Carney belittles a reporter for asking if he believes India is still interfering in Canada.
Stuff like this is the great gift @ProfEmilyOster brings to the world. I threw away so much milk feeling 84% sure the CDC guidance was stupid, but not having the tools (or frankly the time, as the mom of a newborn) to be confident enough to change my behavior. Her combo of brains and willingness to annoy people is unmatched in this arena.
Time to bring this chant back… 6 foot 5. Hard as fuck…
Peter Thiel just told Silicon Valley it’s automating away its own cognitive moat. Nobody there is paying attention. Thiel: “It is striking to me how bad Silicon Valley is at talking about these sorts of things.” The industry is either arguing over 20% improvements in the next transformer model or jumping straight to simulation theory. They’re missing the massive real-world shift happening right in the middle. Thiel: “My intuition would be it’s going to be quite the opposite, where it seems much worse for the math people than the word people.” For decades, Silicon Valley worshipped quantitative intelligence. Math and coding were the ultimate safety nets. Thiel: “Within three to five years, the AI models will be able to solve all the US Math Olympiad problems.” Once a machine instantly solves the hardest math problems on earth, the economic value of being a human calculator doesn’t just decline. It disappears. And the historical irony is brutal. The societal bias toward math over verbal ability started during the French Revolution. Not because math was more valuable. Because verbal ability ran in aristocratic families, and math was elevated as the great equalizer to break nepotism. A 200-year-old political accident became the foundation of Silicon Valley’s entire hiring philosophy. AI is about to snap it back. The people who built the models that can now outperform them mathematically spent their careers optimizing for the wrong skill. The future belongs to the word people. The engineers didn’t see it coming because they were too busy calculating.
WATCH: Pierre Poilievre asks Mark Carney about the gold-plated health plan given even to people whose asylum claims are rejected.
