Self-delusions of grandeur of Quebeckers are funny.
Too bad they can't attract talent and can't use the ones they attracted there
Meanwhile some top experts are in Silicon Valley, some others in London, there's a lot of ML investment in Berlin and other cities
Montreal is a great city but gets dragged down by the French Quebec BS
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Is there any way I can contact you directly?
I had written a proper response but the level of ignorance and apparent hatred displayed in your comment makes me doubt you would have read it.
There's a pretty big disincentive for anglophone engineers to move to Montreal, say from Toronto. Not sure about Waterloo. Waterloo's kind of dead, so I imagine graduates being glad to move anywhere more interesting.
Waterloo is very much a place where no one lives but everyone comes to for either a job or for school. Once either of those two are completed, the person leaves.
With continued investment, things will change. But, Rome wasn't built in a day.
Il y a aucune haine, il y a seulement des faits
Maybe that's why a lot of immigrants (or even the natives that speak English) leave Quebec as soon as they can.
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Self-delusions of grandeur of Quebeckers are funny.
Too bad they can't attract talent and can't use the ones
they attracted there
Montreal is a great city but gets dragged down by the
French Quebec BS
You hate French speaking Québécois, for your own personal reasons. Keep it to yourself. It has no place here (an anywhere, really). I'm glad that your brand of instinctive Quebec hate is not very popular amongst the general population.
Ignorance crasse.
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> What does this article have to do with "Quebeckers"? If you had frequented any of the mentioned universities you would know they are full of foreign students, especially so in the graduate programs
Because it overly emphasizes the importance of Montreal in the DL area. It really sounds like someone exaggerating it, but it could be only a PR piece.
Having 150 research students is important, but having an industry to support that is essencial. Do you think the 150 will be hired by the new Google lab?
> They're merely pointing out that recent investments and research base are putting it in a very good position worldwide. Is that false?
Not false. But we'll see what comes out of it.
> What does "French Quebec" have to do with this story?
You're saying that companies have no issues with Loi 101? (for those who don't know - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_the_French_Language )
You believe that Quebec hasn't shot itself in the foot with all the separatist BS? Not even the Bank of Montreal HQ is not in Montreal.
> You hate French speaking Québécois
Absolutely not, I even like them better in a lot of aspects to people from other parts of Canada (maybe the Vancouverites are nicer, though)
But (some of them) do have racist attitudes towards foreigners, even towards the French
Which boils down to: will the graduates from those Deep Learning programs manage to stay in Montreal? Or they will have to go somewhere else for jobs?
separatist BS
The city's aiming high. Some people there have a dream. And all you can do is bash them and denigrate them and tell us how their (in some cases actually very reasonable) political opinions will bring their demise. Should they just not even try? I don't understand your logic.
BTW, it was obviously a PR piece. At least we agree on that :)
Just ask yourself what were the consequences of the referendum, even if the separatists lost.
I do think some of their ideas (associated with separatists) make sense, but pushing for separatism has never helped the province.
And yes, the city of Montreal knows better than the rest of QC fortunately