Jehangir Appoo, MD, FRCSC
@JehangirAppoo
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Career#1️⃣:🫀 Surgeon | Career#2️⃣: Healthtech VC | Founding Partner, AioT Health | Director, UCeed Health | Adj. Research Prof, UCalgary | Co-PI Titan:SvS RCT
Joined August 2011
For heaven's sake don't bother directing your questions to people who aren't responsible or, worse still, throw your questions out there without directing them at all. #principleoftheday
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We have lost a legend today. Ratan Tata’s legacy is one of visionary leadership and unwavering commitment to social responsibility. He has transformed lives and inspired countless others. A true icon whose impact will be felt for generations to come. #RatanTata #Legacy #RIP
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@nchirls @asylumventures Congrats on thinking of how to raise capital in a fair way. Aligns with philosophy of a few unique value investor hedge fund managers who charge 0% mgmt fee, only take a share of profit above a hurdle & have their entire wealth in the fund - Skin in the Game 👍
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@harari_yuval @globeandmail Great point: ability to make choices differentiates AI from other exponential technologies.
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First off, what are Cialdini's 6 principles? They're psychological triggers that make people more likely to say "yes." Reciprocity, Scarcity, Authority, Consistency, Liking, and Consensus. Mastering these can make you a persuasion ninja.
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James Cameron: Run toward difficult. There’s less competition.
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RCT in acute type A Dissection Does #AortaEd believe this is an important question? Would your site recruit patients and randomize to hemiarch vs extended arch?
Mortality of acute type A aortic dissections (#ATAAD) has improved but remains considerable, requiring 💡. #TITAN-#HEADSTART is the first #RCT for ATAAD in the emergency setting, comparing hemiarch vs. extended arch repair. Read in #JVSCIT: https://t.co/RcUjDcN1aV
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The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the Internet, and the mobile phone. It will change the way people work, learn, travel, get health care, and communicate with each other.
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Bill Gates explains why AI is as revolutionary as personal computers, mobile phones, and the Internet, and he gives three principles for how to think about it.
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"There is a big difference between being interested in something and being committed to something. Committed people do what interested people won’t." — @ShaneAParrish
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When deep tech works, it REALLY works: ▸ SpaceX: 20 years to $175 billion market cap ▸ TSMC: 30 years to $500 billion ▸ Nvidia: 30 years to $1.5 trillion But there's one small problem — nobody knows what "deep tech" actually means. Here's my take:
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Award shows are tedious and crass, but the smile on Tracy Chapman’s face when the auditorium goes nuts for her before she takes everyone to school with no lip sync, no auto-tune and no in-ear monitors is a pretty sweet moment to capture live.
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Hope this video clears up concerns around “teleoperated robot demos”. Teleop is for collecting data! No conspiracy theory here. Also checkout Phoenix's light… We did that to help you tell the difference 😉 Not everyone will be so kind. You’re welcome #teleoperation #honesty
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I wrote a small, quick manifesto of Genetic Choice, and why it will be a slow frontier, and why that is good. https://t.co/m9tT51xWJD
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When you're in the middle of the work, set your expectations high. It's unlikely your performance will exceed the standard you set for yourself. High expectations encourage you to keep reaching and fulfill your potential. Once the work is done, release yourself from your
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Thks for sharing @DrJimFan. Super interesting things happen when we move from LLMs to Large Behavioral Models so that humanoid robots can do economically valuable tasks.
I've been asked what's the biggest thing in 2024 other than LLMs. It's Robotics. Period. We are ~3 years away from the ChatGPT moment for physical AI agents. We've been cursed by the Moravec's paradox for too long, which is the counter-intuitive phenomenon that "tasks that humans
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