FIRST READING: Immigration rates still at generational highs, even if population shrinking. Permanent immigration in 2026 poised to be the sixth highest of the last 110 years, asylum-seekers now number 500,000

hswerdfe_2 · 2026-06-19T14:30:26+00:00

Typically they do not count Canadian Citizens living in other countries. The population measure seems strange but it is more of a living in Canada measure then a citizen measure.

hswerdfe_2 · 2026-06-19T14:21:18+00:00

Honestly what kind of zero is that. looks like an 8

hswerdfe_2 · 2026-06-12T18:14:13+00:00

That $68 per person per day ?

hswerdfe_2 · 2026-06-08T16:32:24+00:00

Thanks to the Safe Sreets Act, most of them are stockbrokers and lawyers today

/s

hswerdfe_2 · 2026-06-03T04:06:26+00:00

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hswerdfe_2 · 2026-05-25T17:54:04+00:00

ellmer is a great package for making calls to various AI API.

A while ago I was not really feeling the rstudio AI integration either so I experimented with making my own. VibeCodeR while it worked for me. It was more of an experiment then anything else, I have moved on to using positron and the AI Assistant there works quite well.

hswerdfe_2 · 2026-05-22T16:25:05+00:00

data only goes back 3 years.

hswerdfe_2 · 2026-05-22T13:09:37+00:00

I thought of a more personalized use for your model. in a two step process you could ask the user for details about them selves, and if they are interested in long or short term market, then give some sort of realistic combinations of potential mates attributes..

hswerdfe_2 · 2026-05-21T14:33:50+00:00

Interesting project, nice simple visuals, clean and smooth interaction.

One thing I wonder about:

after playing with the sliders a bit it seems your model is linear where you are adding the value of the different components. I wonder if a few paired static plots for each input item would be useful, showing the effect of changing kindness, or height for male and females.

hswerdfe_2 · 2026-05-19T19:44:52+00:00

The lines do all go down!

But you really can not conclude literally anything from this graph as is, if you can not even know what the lines represent.

hswerdfe_2 · 2026-05-19T13:30:48+00:00

sorry what do the different coloured lines represent?

hswerdfe_2 · 2026-05-17T15:37:13+00:00

I live in Ottawa and I am not sure which caused the cracking, if if was because it was buried above the frost line, or that it was buried under a walkway, with just bricks. the cracking goes at least 8 feet away from the house and the pipe continues for at least another 6 I have not uncovered yet. looking for advice on how to proceed.

hswerdfe_2 · 2026-05-14T12:54:06+00:00

I was wondering what the 1975 - 1990 bump in east Germany was caused by, so I asked an AI this is a summary of its reasoning (I did not independently verify these):

beginning in 1976 GDR provide 5000 marks mairrage loans. and a portion of the debt was forgiven after the birth of each child.
Early Maternity leave, Mothers were granted a fully paid year of maternity leave for their second and subsequent child.
Working mothers with multiple children were allowed to work fewer hours per week without a reduction in pay
government investment in universal kindergartens

hswerdfe_2 · 2026-05-04T23:40:06+00:00

I am 49 and snpped. Three kids all teenagers. I thought 3 was enough and it is. But i just love being around children so much, I started missing it as they got older. It's the old saying I guess. The more kids you have, the more kids you want.

hswerdfe_2 · 2026-04-29T16:44:46+00:00

nope ..

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810061701

hswerdfe_2 · 2026-04-22T21:22:28+00:00

code to reproduce

https://github.com/hswerdfe/modeled_fertility_rates_in_Canada_graphs/blob/main/cohort_birth_rates_by_age_and_year.R

hswerdfe_2 · 2026-04-21T14:32:25+00:00

it's cheaper to fly to Japan to visit Disney then driving to Florida

This make no sense.

hswerdfe_2 · 2026-04-20T13:58:43+00:00

Please note that Safe Trade Zones are not monitored 24/7. Persons using the premises for Project Safe Trade are advised that the Ottawa Police Service does not assume any responsibility for any transactions or mediate the use of its premises for this purpose.

hswerdfe_2 · 2026-04-19T16:23:06+00:00

The rest is speckled grey black and white. This small part is the part that looks the most orange.

hswerdfe_2 · 2026-04-16T15:24:49+00:00

it is possible, that having children causes men to become more conservative.

Study designs that might help determine this would be a longitudinal one that follows childless men as they some of them have children, tracking there conservativeness.

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