My employer, the IGM Financial Group of Companies; IG Wealth Management; Mackenzie Investments and Investment Planning Counsel, has joined the anti-hate social media ad boycott. How very cool!

Vector Institute's AI can also predict random events; only when AI does it, it has a proper name: Neural stochastic differential equations (SDEs). Fascinating.

I am relieved to hear doctors in Italy have begun training/using AI to diagnose Covid-19.

It puzzles me that with all the data and technology available to us, we are still so woefully ill-prepared for pandemics; though it is always heartening to see technology being used for more than just profit.

Significant news items to follow: the coronavirus spread; the stock market crash 2020; and under holy sh**! the U.S. and the Taliban have signed a peace agreement to end the nearly 2-decades-long Afghan war.

So now that the music industry seems to have lost its sense of coolness so completely, I'd like to dedicate the following playlist to all you non-beliebers. I know you're out there.
"It's better to burn out, than fade away!"

I love you, MCR!! <3

Swahili for Thank you very much...
for the beautiful film, Mia and the White Lion.

CONGRATULATIONS! Magnus Carlsen has, once again, defended his title to win World Chess Champion 2018. Well played!

The official Tournament Report, and more, can be found here; and the Play Magnus apps here.

Evidently an alarming number of people seem content with getting all their information from unhinged rapists on twitter. (Reasons Trump is an actual president.)

It's become a thing. Like fake news.

I don't recall exactly when I became obsessed with data, but it was a long time ago. Back when Facebook was still fairly new and I was still posting selfies and pretending to appreciate the 'FarmVille gifts' from my co-workers at Corus Entertainment.

First I have to say, Vive la France! Vive l'Europe! <3 I am very happy France has elected Emmanuel Macron as President.

Second, I forgot how fun it is to build websites, hence Astronaut Cat. :)

I haven't started actually writing here yet because I'm still in the middle of building, but I have written a few short posts about my volunteer work for friends at Environmental Vision Exchange; a Canadian charity that travels (mostly through Africa) solving problems. You can find it here: http://evecharity.org/blog