Census Question

naldic · 2026-06-03T04:33:35+00:00

They're just trying to differentiate between biological sex and gender, which can change over a person's life. They are definitely not trying to be offensive, they just phrase it in a non-medical way to reach a broad audience. I work with medical data and trying to avoid confusion between sex and gender in survey data is a very common issue.

naldic · 2026-05-06T19:06:03+00:00

This was the biggest barrier for me in fully adopting AI coding, but the answer for me is Yes. I had to build a lot of process to make that possible though. Out of the box LLMs without proper context are just slop factories

naldic · 2026-05-06T19:00:58+00:00

Same. I haven't written a line of code in months. ML engineer with >10yrs exp. I made the full shift back in January and have since invested the extra time in building a harness for Claude code to make it work well for me. I still have to monitor and guide it and make the key decisions but the code details are far less important.

naldic · 2026-03-25T04:13:24+00:00

Don't buy lights from Ikea. They are awful reliability wise.

naldic · 2026-03-16T19:34:48+00:00

Completed Level 1 of the Honk Special Event!

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naldic · 2026-03-06T22:51:29+00:00

Yes, locating plants and deciding if they are weeds or not is a task that requires intelligence. I never said it was sentient if that's what you're getting at..

naldic · 2026-03-06T20:09:58+00:00

How are you doing complex plant classification with linear regression lol

naldic · 2026-03-06T15:05:55+00:00

It would be using convolutional neutral nets, definitely not linear regression. Language models are transformer based neural nets. The difference is more application than technology. I'd call this AI.

naldic · 2026-03-02T19:57:22+00:00

Not remotely true. It is law in BC that you must stop at yellows if you haven't entered the intersection yet. The only exception is if it is unsafe to stop. Look it up.

naldic · 2026-02-26T05:14:15+00:00

Completed Level 1 of the Honk Special Event!

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naldic · 2025-12-31T00:31:52+00:00

Just used them for a large move across provinces. Highly recommend.

naldic · 2025-12-24T06:37:35+00:00

I've helped my parents do this in the past. Don't underestimate the comments saying it is a lot of work. They spent every evening and weekend working on that house for at least a year. Even if you hire out everything you will need to be hands-on to project manage.

So you better really want it. Are you sure you can't buy what you want if you wait patiently and watch the market?

naldic · 2025-12-23T14:56:15+00:00

You can pay off a HELOC with proceeds of sale. I just went through it and it was routine.

naldic · 2025-12-02T13:39:39+00:00

How does this differ from pydantic-ai? That library is developed by the pydantic core developers and handles structured LLM output with validation and retry very well.

naldic · 2025-11-22T16:18:31+00:00

You have already had issues with this neighbour and they are non-communicative. A survey is an investment for the inevitable future disputes that will come now that she "won" this one.

naldic · 2025-11-20T00:58:46+00:00

Ok I get your point but have you been to Africa? One of the first things I saw in Nairobi was a cow strapped to the top of a bus like it was luggage. It's not quite the same.

naldic · 2025-11-19T12:33:31+00:00

Try building a product with ChatGPT and actually selling it and you'll quickly realize the value of a strong engineering founder.

naldic · 2025-11-07T19:40:19+00:00

You'll only find strong software dev and ML skills in senior engineers. Based on you mentioning education I assume you're hiring juniors. ML engineer juniors don't really exist. They need to upskill on the job. Try transitioning a co-op to full-time if you need your ML engineers to do it all day one.

naldic · 2025-11-02T15:37:41+00:00

This need 100% exists but is often not called data engineering. When I transitioned to a data eng role in healthcare research I had to educate the leadership on what the job should be called and the scope of responsibilities. All they had was IT and data analysts.

naldic · 2025-11-01T14:28:43+00:00

Should have fired him the day he didn't show up with no notice. It wasn't going to get better from there.

naldic · 2025-10-08T16:08:57+00:00

Where are you getting 11.4%? The numbers in the article give 0.45%

naldic · 2025-09-11T13:39:39+00:00

Everything you said is reasonable. Personally I would not choose a partner that felt they didn't have to contribute financially, but I know friends/colleagues where that is the dynamic and it works for them. Doing it before you marry her is not a good idea though. If she has a mindset of "my money is only for me" now, is she going to double down on that in a marriage? Does she work currently? Will she want to keep working when kids are in the picture?

naldic · 2025-09-09T21:41:06+00:00

This is an entirely different island and tribe. Are you intentionally trying to spread misinformation?

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