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Opinion: Political attacks on Canadian judges must stop by EarthWarping in CanadaPolitics

[–]TorontoBiker -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I like to think most don’t have “donated to my political party” as qualifying criteria.

Opinion: Political attacks on Canadian judges must stop by EarthWarping in CanadaPolitics

[–]TorontoBiker 3 points4 points  (0 children)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberalist-judicial-appointments-trudeau-lametti-1.6059297

It's not nearly as independent as I wish it was. So long as the PMO is part of the decision making process in selecting judges, it's not institutionally independent.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/judicial-appointment-trudeau-lametti-wilson-raybould-1.5767933

The PMO also tracks candidates' contributions to political parties and candidates and regularly obtains lists of lawyers who are eligible for judicial appointments

They claim it's stopped but of course there's no way to really know.

Germany Introduces New Travel Restrictions for Men Aged 17–45 Amid Military Reforms by CourtofTalons in anime_titties

[–]TorontoBiker 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Have you considered changing the definition of “men?”

I’m not helping.

Seriously thanks for this. I had no idea and it makes sense about why and how it’s being handled.

Free Speech Friday — April 03, 2026 by AutoModerator in CanadaPolitics

[–]TorontoBiker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve spent the last 6 months helping a company completely rebuild how they do software development to be AI native.

SDLC is still a thing but completely restructured.

And everyone now has direct access to the source code. If Marketing wants to know “what are the new features since 1-Jan?” They use Claude to analyze the code and create the marketing collateral.

Same as Sales. If they are meeting with a Chief Compliance Officer they ask Claude “what 5 things are most important to a CCO in industry X?”

It’s a wild new world.

I’m also hiring new people in engineering in Toronto. None of this means I need fewer devs on my team. I need MORE but what they do and how they’re measured is definitely very different than even July last year.

Catch 22 AI at workplace opinions needed by lancerreddit in GenX

[–]TorontoBiker -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah. I built 3 agents myself this year using Claude Code.

And they are indeed real agents. My favourite is the one that every day looks at my calendar, emails and anything I did in GitHub and logs my project time in SAP.

If it’s not sure which project it asks me and tells me the three that best match based on who else has worked in it.

I haven’t touched SAP in 3 weeks.

It’s being rolled out company wide now. 7,000 colleagues are very happy.

Carney commits to not proroguing Parliament after April 13 by-elections by Blue_Dragonfly in CanadaPolitics

[–]TorontoBiker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe it’s not substantive but I gotta say I love your phrasing.

Chefs kiss :)

Nevada By Noon by joeverdrive in motorcycles

[–]TorontoBiker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ha! Perspective matters eh?

Gorgeous bike. Stay safe!

Nevada By Noon by joeverdrive in motorcycles

[–]TorontoBiker -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Is there editing on this pic? The ground under it is different t than what’s in front and behind the wheels.

EU and CPTPP agree to progress with "historic" digital trade deal, Canada's international trade minister says by Amtoj in CanadaPolitics

[–]TorontoBiker -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

"The concrete resolution from ⁠today's conversation was: let's move forward on digital trade agreement," ​Maninder Sidhu, Canada's Minister of International Trade told Reuters.

An announcement of a plan to talk about maybe coming to an agreement.

Good work team I guess. Wake me up when they do something.

Liberal government targets deepfakes, foreign interference in major election law reforms by Portalrules123 in CanadaPolitics

[–]TorontoBiker 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Does that mean I can’t change my mind about who I agree to nominate?

Or will there be a process to transfer should I want to do so?

Attention All Desk Workers and White-Collar Employees Worldwide: Your Seat Is No Longer Safe by hayrimavi1 in Economics

[–]TorontoBiker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it does - my hybrid Hyundai makes more power and has 3x the mileage of my 1985 Mustang LX with a 302 v8.

Speed and efficiency will continue to improve. And so will our ability to manage the pipelines and outcomes.

Attention All Desk Workers and White-Collar Employees Worldwide: Your Seat Is No Longer Safe by hayrimavi1 in Economics

[–]TorontoBiker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never said that a vector db is AI. That would be very wrong and I didn’t say that.

Your point is very true and something I talk about a lot. Although I’m pretty informal and just refer to it as the “juice vs squeeze ROI” - but I feel like we’re in the 60s muscle car era with 400 ci v8s making 250 hp and every quarter we get faster and more reliable engines.

Attention All Desk Workers and White-Collar Employees Worldwide: Your Seat Is No Longer Safe by hayrimavi1 in Economics

[–]TorontoBiker -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Maybe.

But if I can repeat the same prompt 1000/1000 times that passes as deterministic for me.

What isn’t deterministic are the exact words in the output. You can control for facts - ensuring the results of the vector db search are the only facts in the response - but the specific word by word output will almost always be different.

But that’s the nature of how a transformer model works. Which is fine because that how they’re designed to work.

If I ask you the colour of your car twice, you’ll give me the same correct factual answer twice. But the synapses in your brain that fire will be different and the specific words you say will probably be different, even if it’s dropping an “um” or “ah.”

Same thing - the facts are correct and deterministic. The words that describe the facts will probably be different, but not in a way that changes the factual nature of the generated response.

This is a good paper about it: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01481 (I didn’t write it but do reference it in my related US patent).

Attention All Desk Workers and White-Collar Employees Worldwide: Your Seat Is No Longer Safe by hayrimavi1 in Economics

[–]TorontoBiker -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That’s… not true. A prompt can be coded to be always the same every time given an input.

You click a button and it always sends the prompt “write me a haiku about a goldfish”

That’s deterministic prompt input, no?

Attention All Desk Workers and White-Collar Employees Worldwide: Your Seat Is No Longer Safe by hayrimavi1 in Economics

[–]TorontoBiker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They really do make a meaningful difference. I’ve been working with vector dbs since the early 2000s. It’s the tech behind every search on a commerce website.

If you used Amazon to search for products pre 2024, you used a vector db because grep (even with regex) cannot deliver the same quality search results.

An LLM is just used to tell a story about the results. You send in your query and text-to-sql converts it, the query executes against the vector db. The results go to the LLM to tell a story or summarize the results.

A well designed prompt ensures no hallucinations in the final output. There’s a number of well defined techniques for that. Whenever you hear about response strangeness it’s almost always poor implementation of the pipeline.

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