Bigger is not always better, posits Dr. Jonathan Schaeffer.
Schaeffer is the founder of Synsira Software Solutions and a cofounder of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, and he’s referring to artificial intelligence systems.
“Not every AI task needs to be sent...
Earlier this year, an entrepreneur based in northern British Columbia launched a free app in response to rising wildfires in Canada.
Jeff Parr, a former oil sector employee and self-taught coder, says WildFire Ready keeps users informed by pulling live...
Dubbed Camp Startmate, it brought the founders and Startmate team before before the latest Accelerator began. Week Zero is a longstanding Startmate tradition where founders decide where they are going and how ambitious they’re prepared to be. Normally it...
Wealthy benefactors could help fund areas of science beyond health, the head of Australia’s national science agency says, following the organisation’s painful job cuts.
CSIRO chief executive Doug Hilton said there was scope to spread the support, with the medical...
There is a particular kind of silence that can appear around money in later life.
An older parent will discuss the cost of groceries, the electricity bill and the absurd price of a cup of coffee. They may tell you...
I have been thinking about the kind of day that is almost impossible to defend in a culture obsessed with improvement.
You wake without an alarm. You drink coffee slowly. You water something, read twenty pages, sit in the afternoon...
Some people are very easy to choose.
They look good in a room. They remember birthdays, ask the second question and know what to say when somebody’s life comes apart. They are pleasant to be around, useful in a crisis...
A friend of mine is the finest conversationalist I know, on the strict condition that there are exactly two of us.
Over coffee she’ll take a half-formed thought of mine, turn it over, find the crack in it and hand...
The Province wants to dramatically expand electric charging infrastructure over the next decade while simultaneously hoping to conserve energy.
Since 2016, the Government of Canada has allocated more than $1 billion in funding to support the deployment of electric vehicle...
There is a particular kind of house that looks ready for everyone except the person who lives there.
The wardrobe contains clothes for a body, job or social life that belonged to another decade. The good china waits behind glass...
