<story><title>DeepMind expands to Canada with new research office in Edmonton</title><url>https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-office-canada-edmonton/?href=</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bb101</author><text>Out of pure interest, how would you describe winters in Edmonton?</text></item><item><author>fnbr</author><text>I completely agree with that assessment. The U of A is a great school, and summers in Edmonton are fantastic, but the winters are something else.</text></item><item><author>aaronlevin</author><text>University of Alberta has a very strong pure mathematics department (especially in Functional Analysis and Algebra). Pairing this with a strong Computer Science department could eventually bring it to a level to compete with Waterloo.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, as someone who grew up in edmonton, I don&amp;#x27;t ever want to live there again. It&amp;#x27;s a tough city to live in, though it has its beauty when you look hard enough.</text></item><item><author>pmalynin</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m currently a student at the UofA, and I do Machine Learning &amp;#x2F; Deep Learning professionally; These are pretty good news, I know a lot of these professors personally and they do a lot of great (fundamental) work in the field of RL &amp;#x2F; ML, with a lot of collaboration happening between the university and the private sectors.&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, this will provide the needed boost to the University&amp;#x27;s CS department, and particularly Edmonton&amp;#x27;s tech sector.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aaronlevin</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a combination of:&lt;p&gt;- getting dark around 4&amp;#x2F;5pm
- extremely dry and cold
- winter starts in October, lasts until late April
- massive urban sprawl so the city core is dead during the winter, and therefore the city feels lifeless.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s particularly bleak and definitely biased, but it&amp;#x27;s not far from the truth.</text></comment>
<story><title>DeepMind expands to Canada with new research office in Edmonton</title><url>https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-office-canada-edmonton/?href=</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bb101</author><text>Out of pure interest, how would you describe winters in Edmonton?</text></item><item><author>fnbr</author><text>I completely agree with that assessment. The U of A is a great school, and summers in Edmonton are fantastic, but the winters are something else.</text></item><item><author>aaronlevin</author><text>University of Alberta has a very strong pure mathematics department (especially in Functional Analysis and Algebra). Pairing this with a strong Computer Science department could eventually bring it to a level to compete with Waterloo.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, as someone who grew up in edmonton, I don&amp;#x27;t ever want to live there again. It&amp;#x27;s a tough city to live in, though it has its beauty when you look hard enough.</text></item><item><author>pmalynin</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m currently a student at the UofA, and I do Machine Learning &amp;#x2F; Deep Learning professionally; These are pretty good news, I know a lot of these professors personally and they do a lot of great (fundamental) work in the field of RL &amp;#x2F; ML, with a lot of collaboration happening between the university and the private sectors.&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, this will provide the needed boost to the University&amp;#x27;s CS department, and particularly Edmonton&amp;#x27;s tech sector.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>visarga</author><text>Take a look : &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=WGpsfvRb120&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=WGpsfvRb120&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>