
Cory Janssen
@CoryJanssen
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Co-founder of AltaML
Edmonton, Alberta
Joined January 2012
Canada has the talent and resources to be the most prosperous country in the world. The only reason we're not is because we choose not to be. "Bold beats safe" is one of @build_canada's founding principles and in my view is one of the most critical. As a reminder of what we
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If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian. If you believe
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Entrepreneurs thrive on speed. But SR&ED slows them down. Canada doesn’t lack ambition or talent. We lack a system that actually helps. The fix isn’t more funding. It’s a smarter process.
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Securing our fleet growth and renewal for the next decade✈️! Thrilled to announce that we placed an order for another 60 @Boeing 737-10 MAX and seven 787-9 Dreamliner airplanes! https://t.co/YMWMULr4gk
westjet.com
Sizeable aircraft order to be delivered through 2034 as part of airline’s multi-billion-dollar investment in future growth
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Canadian AI Talent is off the charts 🇨🇦 - @geoffreyhinton - "the Godfather of AI", Turing Award, Nobel Prize, Google Brain, UToronto, AlexNet, Vector, numerous students are crushing it - @Yoshua_Bengio - Turing Award, MILA, UdeM - Samy Bengio - AI and Machine Learning Research
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Three thoughts on what really matters: 1. Fuck cancer 2. Friends are irreplaceable 3. The new "Marcus test" for AI is when AI makes a significant dent on cancer May that happen sooner, much sooner, rather than later. In memory of my childhood friend Paul.
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Checks in on Vancouver… I’m glad Carney have $2 billion to Ukraine to help them out… 🙄
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In 2010 I brought in sweeping reforms to Canada’s asylum system, which won all party support. Even the Toronto Star endorsed the changes! The core statutory reforms were in the Balanced Refugee Reform Act. As a result of these legal, policy, and operational changes (including
BREAKING: New data shows the Carney Liberals' record on asylum claimants, with 291,975 claimants in the queue, a more than 2800% increase from 2015 to 2025. Since Carney took office, the numbers continue to climb.
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The AI narrative challenge for OAI ... pivoting away from the early AGI 'end of the world' schtick that got you going...
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Your home. Your family. Your life. If someone breaks in, you deserve the right to defend your loved ones and your property - full stop.
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Danielle Smith: “If you don’t want to get shot or beaten up, don’t break into people’s homes.” @ABDanielleSmith is the best.
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I couldn't care less if AGI or ASI or whatever undefined nonsense is achievable or not. In what concerns a technology, I only care about what problems I can solve with it. As someone with more than 20 years of experience in AI, I implemented dozens of AI-based solutions to
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no more AGI bluffing by LLM companies. the first domino just fell. the rest will follow, because scaling autocomplete was never the road to real intelligence.
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China just hit Alberta’s farmers with a crushing 75.8% tariff on even more canola products, on top of the 100% tariffs already in place. This threatens to shut Alberta producers out of one of our most valuable markets almost entirely. China is Alberta’s second largest
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Replit CEO: “companies were subsidizing the cost of AI, paying more money to Anthropic and OpenAI than they were making” Host: “Is that was you were doing?” “Uh… on v1 no, on v2 yes, bc our pricing was (is?) out of whack” (so yes). Conversations abt AI startups “eating the
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The path forward is not to build a "god in a box", it's to create intelligent systems that integrate with existing processes, in particular science and humans at large, to empower and accelerate them.
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Edmonton's absurd infill policies allow for 8-plexes like these monsters to be built alongside single family homes. Thanks to Edmonton Sun columnist Lorne Gunter for doing his best to expose this insanity:
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Everyone's X feed tmrw 😁 "99.9% are using GPT-5 wrong! This is how the top 0.1% are actually leveraging it." "This GPT-5 prompt made me a millionaire, unreal ROI!" "GPT-5 is going to replace 99% of jobs, here's how:" "100 wild GPT-5 use cases & no one’s talking about them!"
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Dumb tall-poppy-syndrome articles like this is why all the stock market returns accrue to American investors
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