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Michael Stumm
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Michael Stumm
@stummm
Comp. Eng. Prof at University of Toronto; Co-founder of OANDA Corp.
Toronto Katılım Nisan 2008
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#UofT Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton has won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics.
Hinton shares the prize with John J. Hopfield “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” #NobelPrize uoft.me/aXz
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@pmarca Most of that difference is due to the exchange rate between EUR and USD: 1.47 -> 1.10.
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@TheOGLauraWalsh Regulations in Canada requires that an “officer” must open each first new account for KYC purposes.
That is why Canadian banks have so many “Vice Presidents”. To save on costs, they’ve cut back on those positions, hence the scheduling.
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@cremieuxrecueil This graph doesn’t actually show productivity levels.
Plus the graph is heavily influenced by the exchange rates used. The $ is at an all-time high which make the American numbers look better.
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@PhD_Genie For my grad class, I tell them there will be a $10 fine if it turns out they did not read the assigned papers, so if they don’t want to have to pay that they are better off not show up to class. The $10 fines go into a pool for buying the class beer at the end of the term.
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This time of year, students are applying for PhD programmes in the US, but can I also suggest you consider Australia🦘?
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@JulesJacobs5 But look at the pricing details of your ticket: you are already paying way more than $1 for passport control.
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Big passport control queues are highly irrational. If everyone in this queue paid $1 to hire additional agents, the wait would be 2 minutes instead of 2 hours.
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Unit testing and continuous integration should be taught in undergrad. Something that took 10 mins shouldn't take 30 min after you push your changes to the repo. Found a bug? It becomes a unit test.
PS: How many university profs wrote a unit test 😇
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@ioanauoft Lots of industrial papers get published in systems conferences. The impact these papers have is huge. Also company blogs are widely read and also have large impact.
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Given the randomness in reviewing in #ACL* conferences, I wonder what to do in industrial research settings where we don't have to publish to survive. How do we communicate our findings? Academics have tunnel-vision on a perceived notion of novelty. arxiv and move on?
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@TransitThinker World class? London had that functionality over 15 years ago!
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@shawnmicallef @TorontoPearson YYZ is a national embarrassment! Poorly run. Often chaotic (like last night). Every single time one of the escalators or moving walkways is not working. Time it takes for luggage to arrive is unacceptably long. Etc.
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@JAldrichPL @AndrewCMyers @__gparmer But strangely Transaction on Storage seems to be thriving, no?
Why is their experience different?
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@AndrewCMyers @__gparmer Here's the backstory: TOCS was seen as a top publication venue in community, but has been publishing very few papers recently--around 5-10 per year since 2017. 🧵
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Hard to believe that the systems community is letting TOCS die.
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The US is notorious for it's mass shootings, but its immigration policies (or lack thereof) set a new standard for the art of shooting yourself in the foot with a bazooka.
Advice to graduate students from countries the US doesn't like: just go to Europe.
Masoud@linguistMasoud
I’m quite used to the cruelty students can face when they apply for a US visa but this one broke me. We offered admission to a stellar, talented & hardworking student. After months of work and hundreds of dollars, an embassy officer saw him for 5 mins & said no. why? …
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How to read a paper online:
1: open PDF in browser
2: skim abstract & figures
3: leave tab open for weeks
4: accidentally close tab
5: search for paper again
6: go to step 1
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@jeremiahscholl @yuris Canada has great engineering talent. But it does not have great management and marketing talent. Plus Canadians are more conservative = cautious.
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@yuris Why is that? Not enough engineering talent? Some kind of business regulation I don’t know about?
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From an investor update: "We came to the sad realization that you can't build a unicorn in Toronto. We are planning on moving the team to SF or NY."
Canada is lovely, but your odds of building a $B company are still higher in the US. We should fight for every startup to do this.
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