CHARBONNEAU – The long journey from George Boole to AI
IN THE MID-1800s, the mathematician and philosopher George Boole developed a logical system for determining what was true or false. His Boolean algebra eventually became the [Continue]
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CHARBONNEAU – Will Trump play the gender card?
I FIND IT HARD to understand, but patriarchy is still a substantial factor in American politics. With former U.S. president Trump becoming more ballistic at the growing [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Remove oil sands from the equation and Canada’s economy is comparable
THERE HAS BEEN a lot of hand-wringing about the state of Canada’s economy. You would think the sky was falling. But depending on how you measure the economy, it’s not as [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Like all machines, AI must conform to us
ONE THING I LEARNED from a course I took in industrial design is that tools, machinery and furniture should be designed to work for us. We wouldn’t buy an uncomfortable [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Nurse practitioners should be brought into Health Care Act
A DRAFT POLICY from the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) has caused quite a stir in the medical community. The CMA has identified loopholes where a two-tiered health care [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – I wanted Kamloops on the map but not like this
WHEN I MOVED HERE, Kamloops was dimly noticed by national media. When noticed at all, we were a “blue collar town,” “400 km west of Vancouver.” It seemed to me that [Continue]
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