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cs @waterloo, dropout @laurier

New York, USA
Joined August 2017
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Today, we're announcing that @seqholdings partnership with DFO will take private of The Baldwin Group for $7.7B. Four months ago, I joined Sequence as an intern because I believed AI was going to fundamentally change how businesses operate. Since then, I've had the chance to tackle that problem alongside some of the smartest and hardest-working engineers I've ever worked with. During this time, I've witnessed a masterclass in what it looks like when great engineering, deep business understanding, and an exceptional team all come together. After four months here, I've decided to drop out of Waterloo and return to Sequence Holdings full-time. Frontier models will continue to get better, but access to intelligence alone is not enough. The harder problem is translating those capabilities into real business value. Sequence exists to bridge that gap by combining technology with deep operational understanding and helping businesses rethink how they operate from the ground up. That intersection of being a world-class engineer and being exceptionally business oriented is what makes the opportunity here so exciting. There's no other place I'd rather be learning, building, and working on this problem. If working alongside world-class engineers to tackling some of the hardest business problems in the industry sounds interesting to you, we are hiring! (more below)
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Defaulting the pricing page to yearly instead of monthly instantly gives 5x revenue
Higgsfield has an evil ahh paywall 😭 Thought I was buying a $20 subscription and got charged $500 instead. WTF 💀
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if the cooch was too easy to obtain, there’s usually a catch to it
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had another affair with an executive at the company, according to a report from The New York Times. This is his second known affair, following his relationship with an alleged Chinese spy. (nytimes.com/2026/11/11/techn…)
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Replying to @VMelson
Actually giving up 90% is very common in Europe when an early stage startup is raising capital
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Benson Yan retweeted
突发!韩国电竞选手崔玄準(ID:Doran)遭枪击身亡 达拉斯当地时间11月8日,韩国英雄联盟职业选手崔玄準(ID:Doran)在离开比赛现场时遭遇意外枪击,经抢救无效后身亡 Riot Games为了表达对Doran选手的纪念,宣布将于一周后永久下架其于2025年11月9日获得的「T1.安蓓萨」冠军皮肤 本台记者喻文波报道
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do NOT go near mission
If you are building mission critical AI infra - do not, and I absolutely repeat, DO NOT - go anywhere near here
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laurier propped up by csbba
All university rankings are very flawed. I wondered how we could rank unis as purely as possible? So I looked at the career path of ~100,000 engineers over 10yrs. Universities rank high when its graduates work at companies, ranked PageRank style, that engineers compete harder to join. Stanford, MIT, Harvard were top 3, but the extent they were above the rest surprised me. Brown at #6, Waterloo at #7!
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i have my popcorn ready
BREAKING: Dana White expected to meet President Trump in the Oval Office on Monday to discuss becoming the next White House Press Secretary. — TMZ
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these guys suck at ranking
A few Nvidia interns and I officially ranked tech companies in 2026...
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this boy gmi
Introducing impasto, turn any photo into a palette-knife painting. no neural networks, no trained models. try it here: dongha.ca/lab/impasto
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Just the other day, jeffrey and I were dilly dallying in a hotel room together in SF. Great to hear he’s onto great things 😛😛😛
introducing @tesser_sh (YC W27) tesser is the simplest way to offload heavy workloads like dev servers and builds to cloud VMs. every worktree gets its own machines, with automatic port forwarding to your laptop
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chill out mate, who’s that tiktoker that works at brev again
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do people still use finalmouse
Presenting SLX Achilles Son of Thetis. Son of Peleus. 10,000 Limited Edition Units each Drops October 26th • 11am PT $179 • Ships in three weeks Exclusively at finalmouse.com 💫 The story of Achilles begins before his first breath. Zeus and Poseidon both desired Thetis, the immortal goddess of the sea. Then came the prophecy: her son would become more powerful than his father. Unwilling to risk their rule, the gods chose a mortal husband for her. Peleus, king of the Myrmidons. Our two Achilles colorways were specially formulated to embody this inheritance. One evokes the earthly strength and sovereignty of his mortal father. The other, the depth and divinity of his immortal mother. The gods chose his fate. He made them watch.
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chat i think they're worth 2 billion
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For QA this isn’t even bad. iykyk some bullshit like eon media be doing worse things on waterlooworks 😂😂😂
i'm hiring a team of grinders who are early in their careers :) > in-person, full time > downtown Toronto > non-technical > $20-30/hr (depending on experience) job will be doing spatial data QA at a stealth robotics startup, led by ex-execs at Cohere, NVIDIA, Apple. pls shoot me a message or help me out by cfbr :)))
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Isnt this free money?
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why are first years going on here to larp about how good waterloo culture is comparing school to hackathon is so funny LMAO "did yk cars are faster than macbooks" you slowly realize that there's a snake in the grass but the snake does not reveal itself immediately at least snakes at waterloo aren't that stupid
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can someone do a legit check for me first
Introducing Muse Wonder, our new family of frontier models with state of the art performance for personal and professional agentic work.
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excited to delete my current phone plan 😛
We announced an agreement to acquire a nationwide low-band spectrum license portfolio that will pave the way for @Starlink to become a major mobile carrier in the US. With this new spectrum and our Gen2 constellation, Starlink Mobile can ensure Americans have access to high-speed mobile broadband no matter where they are → spacex.com/updates#starlink-…
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Can you please stop fucking messaging me. Thanks
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waterloo quants from rags to riches
Citadel's Atlanta office.
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