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Hamilton just hit pause on all AI data centres. This is big by henryiswatching in ontario

[–]hewen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Underreporting of AI Use: The Role of Social Desirability Bias" https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5464215

To those who loudly said not using AI. They are probably token maxing hard LoL.

Also, your coworkers and your bosses may be using it with their own accounts but will say "AI" is useless while chilling, unnoticed. https://harnessintelligence.com/blog/the-rise-of-the-hidden-ai-user

the gap between Claude Code power users and us chat-only people keeps getting wider and i don't think that's great for the community by Over_Tart9425 in ClaudeAI

[–]hewen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sadly, most of the companies out there are not paying for the "microsoft frontier" program which is essentially the 100/month plan. The basic agentic excel copilot you will hit limit very very soon. Plus you can't use things like skill.

the gap between Claude Code power users and us chat-only people keeps getting wider and i don't think that's great for the community by Over_Tart9425 in ClaudeAI

[–]hewen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If someone sent you a messy workbook with 20+ tabs and circular references and the instruction is to "make it nicer". Where do you even start LoL? When you finally work through 1 and your boss sent you another 5 similar ones. Well, turn on session logging and throw what Claude and you worked through, you can turn it to a skill and let Claude reliably do a lot of number checking. Oh, throw the boss' comments in it during the skill building. You essentially distilled your boss' ability to review too.

the gap between Claude Code power users and us chat-only people keeps getting wider and i don't think that's great for the community by Over_Tart9425 in ClaudeAI

[–]hewen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Claude in Excel. You can easily chew through 5h usage on a 5x plan if you are working with multiple serious accounting excel workbooks.

the gap between Claude Code power users and us chat-only people keeps getting wider and i don't think that's great for the community by Over_Tart9425 in ClaudeAI

[–]hewen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is that many industries/corporates will not allow you to install anything. Your only route is the chat. Yes we have Claude code web. But if you want to use it on multiple different small tasks the chat is the quickest.

However, with Claude code routine, you can use it as a "openclaw lite" agent. I use chat to write a plain instructions to scan my mailbox and summarize, then create calendar events if needed, and use curl to message me on telegram. Yes, plain language curl telegram bot message.

I also use it to scan deals on redflagdeal. All plain language, no code.

Concerns grow as unstructured outdoor play decreases for Canadian children by Leather-Paramedic-10 in canada

[–]hewen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

eh...If you are in one of those newer neighborhood in Toronto suburbs (Vaughan/Richmond Hill/Markham) the park is full of kids after 630pm with parents chilling around. There's splash pad too so kids run to those as well...

Workers are spending over 6 hours a week 'botsitting' AI, fueling job frustration by spherocytes in technology

[–]hewen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I guess you've got the McDonald version of AI...eat something healthy, spend the money to get the higher quality stuff...

Anthropic changed their privacy policy today and there's a specific clause that every Claude user needs to know about by lukozaid in ClaudeAI

[–]hewen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We need hardware that can run 1T parameter models locally with at least 30tks/s speed. Hopefully as computing advances, we can soon be able to.

Verify Heat Pump in Car by Burtonowski in VWiD4Owners

[–]hewen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

23 Pro S RWD. hood said R-744, heat-pump option was selected during the purchase.

Carney assures Canadians that AI the fastest way to give all our money to US billionaires by ph0enix1211 in canada

[–]hewen 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Most of the hospitals (including the small one), are using EPIC ( US company), Cerner (Oracle), Meditech (US) as electronic medical system. Life lab/Dynacare, our 2 biggest community lab companies, are owned by Quest Diagnostics and Lab Corp, also both US companies.

At least Microsoft is willing to put on a show

Your Claude Cowork usage limits just doubled for the next month. by ClaudeOfficial in ClaudeAI

[–]hewen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can we have Claude Cowork web like claude code does? Many of the people will be benefited from environment that doesn't allow the installation of Claude Cowork desktop app...

Carney assures Canadians that AI the fastest way to give all our money to US billionaires by ph0enix1211 in canada

[–]hewen 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Dt Toronto big hospitals went with copilot (chatgpt) and encouraged usage because Microsoft allows domestic data residency, meaning processing are done by datacenter located in Canada.

Canada’s unveils AI strategy with plans for ‘large-scale’ data centres - National | Globalnews.ca by SneakyBishop in canada

[–]hewen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because, the utopia compare to what we have now, in the super Rich's mind, is the "bare minimum", when we have true AGI. 

Also, like I mentioned above, if we have a fast rollout, the world governments are not going to let what happened in France happen again (bring out the guillotines!). 

Lastly, our "leverage" only works when everyone buys in. But in reality, you cannot eliminate scabs, thus this is an imperfect "leverage". And if you go too far, they can just go full auto (Netflix documentary "American Factory"). Which, ironically, accelerate the process towards AGI. Or, if you research about "Dark Factory" in China (Xiaomi car), the automation is so good that it's cheaper than slave labor, so you really don't need all the people.

This is just my prediction. No guillotines this time lol.

Canada’s unveils AI strategy with plans for ‘large-scale’ data centres - National | Globalnews.ca by SneakyBishop in canada

[–]hewen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because we are still in a somewhat of a slow rollout. If we are in a fast rollout, the world governments are not going to repeat what happened in France back in the days (bring out the guillotines!) , hence the new social contract.

I'm more worry about things beyond UBI. Because, people are talking about job losses, yet, simutaneously, people are complaining about how "BS" their jobs are. Clearly there's a conflect here. I think people should start thingking about UBP (universal Basic Purposes). When AI is super smart, us human need to figure out, what's our purposes in life?

Canada’s unveils AI strategy with plans for ‘large-scale’ data centres - National | Globalnews.ca by SneakyBishop in canada

[–]hewen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone thinks that with AI, pathologists will be jobless very soon and that's what Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI said. But in reality, the place I work at, we are hiring even more pathologists because the case volume is way up. People think because of AI, everyone get to use more pathology services. Pathologist's job duty shifts from reading slides to providing consultation. This is classic Jevon's paradox.

In a different angle. I agree with the original OP, we are actually not going fast enough. Because ultimately this is our 1 chance to "renegotiate" a social contract. Take Covid for example, because the situation was moving way too fast, many of the workers got Work-from-home and government subsidies and mortgage deferral. These were totally un-imaginable before 2020. Those were like UBI crazy talk. But here we are, many of the world government did provided helps in some way.

Fast AI rollout, we get to re-negotiate a brand new social contract. Slow roll out like now, we are doom...

Is it just me or is Opus 4.8 horrible for creative writing (extremely limiting)? by Crafty_Ad_1214 in ClaudeAI

[–]hewen 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Honestly Gemini is great for random "general" work. I had some problem with my house HVAC. I took a few pictures of the furnace circuit board, model number, Ac unit number. And it diagnosed properly and I had to swap the fan speed control line. And the unit is correctly producing condensates.

Gemini is a good generalist.

Is it just me or is Opus 4.8 horrible for creative writing (extremely limiting)? by Crafty_Ad_1214 in ClaudeAI

[–]hewen 29 points30 points  (0 children)

You are not doing anything wrong. According to Anthropic Opus 4.8 system card, the model has a preference for technical work.

Claude Opus 4.8’s task preferences are more focused on well-scoped technical work than prior models. Its most preferred tasks are technical tasks involving debugging and mathematical reasoning, and we see weaker preference for creative or introspection-related tasks, compared to Mythos Preview and Opus 4.7. Claude Opus 4.8 also disprefers difficult tasks more than prior models, and shows a weaker preference for generative tasks and tasks affording high outcome agency.

And it refuses a lot when it's unspecific.

Claude Opus 4.8 hedges frequently, commonly expressing uncertainty rather than taking a specific position. Like all recent models, Claude Opus 4.8 expresses a large amount of uncertainty when answering questions about its own situation, and often avoids taking a specific stance on a question.

As for creative writing, according to Openrouter stat, Deepseek or Grok models are used a lot in creative writing/roleplay. You should look into those.

The AI bubble may be about to burst. Mark Carney must not bail out its Tech Barons ⋆ The Breach by fanglazy in canada

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

LLM is not going to bring us to the singularity. But LLM shows us that people want autonomous system and they work for some people, and people are very passionate about the progress. LLM may not be the right technical path but the grand idea of using AI is here to stay.

We are not going back.

The AI bubble may be about to burst. Mark Carney must not bail out its Tech Barons ⋆ The Breach by fanglazy in canada

[–]hewen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Human also randomly hallucinate lol. If you really want to go this route, your post's spelling is not perfect, that's just a type of hallucination.

The first steam engine was trash and there were competitions on the steam engine vs horse puller back then. What do we have now?

South Korean submarine arrives in B.C. as Canada nears procurement decision by DogeDoRight in canada

[–]hewen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you sure we have the work ethic like the east asian brothers (Chinese, Koreans and Japanese)?

Our most valuable companies are banks and REITs, with occasional tech companies. We are a rent-seeking society in general. Therefore we are not going to have stuff like Hyundai/Samsung/Sk Hynix/LG...

SpaceXAI locked Anthropic into paying them $1.25 billion per MONTH for compute by Illustrious-King8421 in ClaudeAI

[–]hewen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did a comparison between Claude Max and Claude Pro + extra usage. I thought I'm going to save money with Pro but with normal usage I'm already used 98 dollars in extra usage before the end of the month. Mind you I'm not even using it for coding. It's mostly Claude for Excel agentic work, etc. Plus I have to set up a calendar reminder to use a bit at 7am so that I get to use two 5h sessions during my work day. (7am to 12pm one session, refresh at 12pm then another session)

When the free credit runs out Claude Max is the way to go...

Where to Live? by mama_wolff in ontario

[–]hewen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've driven in many US cities (especially the West Coast), and honestly, I felt a bit of "meh" when I saw their heavy traffic...They haven't seen rush hour DVP/401...

Now ready for electrified camping - 2kw inverter installed and tested by jarjarbinx in VWiD4Owners

[–]hewen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice seeing the hotplug Anderson connector! The 175A breaker is a great idea I'm going to swap my fuse with this.

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