The fact that people program AI to analyze specific information is also a factor. What if they tell it to focus on the wrong data sets? And what happens if everyone's AI is looking at the same things? "The market would become perfectly efficient," says Sebastien Betermier, a finance professor at 香蕉视频. "There would be nothing to predict anymore."
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Published on: 23 Nov 2017
While the Borealis labs work collaboratively, she said the contribution of McGill professor Jackie Cheung as an academic adviser will allow the Montreal lab to focus on his expertise of natural language processing.
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Published on: 22 Nov 2017
Op-ed by Richard Gold, James McGill professor at 香蕉视频
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Published on: 20 Nov 2017
British historian Daniel Beer was awarded the international Cundill History Prize at a gala in Montreal on Thursday for his book on Siberian penal colonies, The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars.听
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Published on: 17 Nov 2017
鈥淭he authors of this study have developed a tool to determine the sensitivity of sea level rise at specific coastal sites to melting from different sectors of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets,鈥� said Natalya Gomez, a geoscientist at 香蕉视频 in Canada who studies sea level rise. 鈥淭his tool will help to provide coastal planners with improved sea level projections as models and measurements of ice loss are refined.鈥�
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Published on: 16 Nov 2017
A group of听African catfish听have fully embraced upside-down life. Their behavior is the result of a bottom-dwelling fish adapting to take advantage of oxygen-rich water near the surface. A catfish鈥檚 mouth is on its underside, so it was likely easiest for the fish to simply turn upside down and treat the top of the water the same as it used to treat the bottom says Lauren Chapman, who studies fish respiration at 香蕉视频 in Montreal, Quebec. 鈥淭o an inverted catfish, the water鈥檚 surface is just another substrate,鈥� she says.
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Published on: 14 Nov 2017
For experts like 香蕉视频 professor听Dr. Charles Sounan, who is a medical scientist and chief of the MUHC's听research and wellness division, the findings are听troubling and need to be addressed immediately. "It's like a听wakeup听call," said Sounan. "It tells us we don't do enough in terms of promoting wellness at work and promoting global health for our employees."
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Published on: 13 Nov 2017
The step would be a 鈥済ame-changer,鈥� said Bartha Knoppers, a health-policy expert at 香蕉视频, in a presentation to the annual Till & McCulloch Meetings of stem-cell and regenerative-medicine researchers.
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Published on: 10 Nov 2017
Chantal Bouchard, a sociolinguist with 香蕉视频, said the English obscenity is fairly commonly used by French speakers in informal conversation. Unlike French swear words, which Bouchard said have their origins in religious references, the English terms have less power to shock a listener, she said.
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Published on: 9 Nov 2017
Op-ed by听Christopher Ragan,听an economist and the inaugural director of 香蕉视频's Max Bell School of Public Policy, which launches this week in Montreal.
"Good public policy is a foundation of peace and prosperity. But it doesn't just happen; it takes real effort by dedicated people who recognize the public interest. Canada needs more of them."
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Published on: 8 Nov 2017
The university will launch the Max Bell School of Public Policy Tuesday at noon at Montreal鈥檚 Hotel Omni Mont-Royal. The launch will be followed by a panel discussion on Canada鈥檚 policy challenges.听
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Published on: 7 Nov 2017
鈥淚f you have an algorithm that sees biased data, gender biased, racially biased, biased based on economic status and so on, the algorithm is going to ingest that and result in a biased model,鈥� Doina Precup, a professor of computer science at McGill and the head of Google-affiliated DeepMind鈥檚 Montreal research lab, said in a session at the conference.
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Published on: 6 Nov 2017
Ahmed El-Geneidy, an associate professor at McGill鈥檚 School of Urban Planning, disagrees with his Concordia counterparts, saying both mayoral candidates are promising major transit projects and he believes both will be able to deliver.
鈥淎t the end of the day, if either wins, Montreal is the winner at the end,鈥澨鼸l-Geneidy said. 鈥淓ach will help the region in a certain way.鈥�
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Published on: 3 Nov 2017
Op-ed by听Jose Mauricio Gaona, O鈥橞rien Fellow at the McGill Centre for Human Rights and听Saul Hayes Fellow at 香蕉视频鈥檚 Faculty of Law.听
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Published on: 1 Nov 2017
McGill is the second greenest campus in Canada according to the 2017 Corporate Knights听Green Campus Ranking.
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Published on: 31 Oct 2017
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