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National Music Centre 2016 Canada Day Grand Opening
We did something special on 2016 Canada Day in Calgary by attending the grand opening of the National Music Centre (NMC) Studio Bell (Twitter)! Yes, the lineup was long and around the block (~1.5...
View ArticlePick and Place machines
I re-watched Joi Ito‘s fascinating TED Talk ‘Want to innovate? Become a “now-ist”‘ again and got fascinated by Pick and Place machines (ref: Samsung) once again! Here are three blog post by Limor Fried...
View ArticleNeuroplasticity
CBC radio – How ‘plastic’ brain can heal from traumatic injuries CBC “The Brain’s Way of Healing” – The Nature of Things (1 hour documentary) //Seven years ago Dr. Norman Doidge introduced...
View ArticleBlack Mirror – Best 2016 speculative fiction on Netflix
Black Mirror season 3 created by Charlie Brooker is now on Netflix and it is a must see speculative fiction (or if you wish, Sci-Fi) show! Two of my favourite S3 episodes are “San Junipero” and “Hated...
View ArticleEd Young – I Contain Multitudes
Watching YouTube videos of Ed Young @edyong209, author of I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life, over lunch. [HT Bill Gates] Some of the many ideas/keywords: Dysbiosis
View ArticleInstant Pot DUO-60/DUO-Plus-60 Design Flaw
Let me make a few things clear. I enjoy cooking with my iPot (Instant Pot). I even admire the inventor/entrepreneur/company that makes iPot (have a read of this enjoyable and insightful 30th Jan, 2017...
View ArticleThe Future of Go Summit: Ke Jie & AlphaGo
“Master” is the new version of “AlphaGo” which Demis Hassabis stated, in the post game press conference with 9 dan Go player Ke Jie (柯潔), the details will be published for others to study similar to...
View ArticleThe Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
I’m watching this great talk thanks to Yann LeCun’s FB post. I’m also planning to read “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge” by Abraham Flexner (PDF via IAS). Fascinating stuff. Robbert Dijkgraaf: “The...
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Julie Payette – Canada’s next Governor General
I’m thrilled and excited to hear Ms. Julie Payette, TA of myUniversity of Toronto Computer Science CSC258 class (I wrote more in this post), has been named Canada’s next Governor General. 2017 July...
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U of Toronto engineering researchers mend broken hearts with expanding tissue...
Very cool news. Excerpts from University of Toronto news “New biomaterial developed by U of T engineering researchers could be delivered through minimally invasive surgery” (emphasis, extra note &...
View ArticleMeet Geoffrey Hinton, U of T’s Godfather of Deep Learning
//Meet Geoffrey Hinton: U of T Professor Emeritus of computer science, an Engineering Fellow at Google, and Chief Scientific Adviser at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. In this...
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Cybersecurity of Voting Machines
Dr. Matt Blaze’s House testimony on the security of voting machines. #VotingMachines #eVoting It worries me that some form of e-voting was used in last Calgary municipal elections and more are being...
View ArticleUber self-driving SUV fatal accident – a Computer Scientist’s views
20180324 update: For now, I’ve found these two posts by Brad Templeton to be very insightful and cover some of the issues that I want to write about but Brad wrote in much more detail! Have a read,...
View ArticleIn the quest to build a better battery
I’ve always love and curious about battery technologies. CBC News has this interesting news article, “In the quest to build a better battery, a Canadian is energizing the field“. Will see how things...
View ArticleClinical study: Single blood test from U Calgary could offer rapid breast...
Hope the two year clinical study will prove to be successful, time will tell. Good luck and best wishes to Dr. Kristina (Tina) Rinker and her Early Cancer Detection Initiative team! #fuckCancer 2019...
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