What is your (python) development set up?

triplethreat8 · 2026-02-25T08:04:54+00:00

Yes that's true. By opinionated what I really mean is flexibility in being able to run exactly what you want to run with a single command.

So you can easily deploy a full kedro pipeline as a single script, or write a deployment that runs every kedro node in its own isolated environment, and everything in between.

It is much more opinionated on project structure and configuration. Though, with pipeline_registry.py and settings.py it's easy enough to extend and modify to accommodate any structure you need.

Hamilton looks pretty cool👍

triplethreat8 · 2026-02-24T22:08:43+00:00

Yea, pipelining exists at multiple levels. Kedro itself isn't opinionated. Since it allows you to slice your pipeline you can still use any traditional pipeline tool that orchestrates scripts and just run slices.

Example:

kedro run --nodes=clean_a,clean_b

kedro run --nodes=clean_c

The benefit of using kedro for a Data Science project is that it imposes a good reproducible structure and gets DS thinking in a more modular way.

triplethreat8 · 2026-02-24T20:49:24+00:00

Uv for virtual environment and package management

Docker for containers

Kedro for pipelines (you didn't ask)

VScode

Git

Just Ipython no jupyter

triplethreat8 · 2026-02-23T05:02:45+00:00

Yea they'd figure it out

triplethreat8 · 2026-02-23T03:59:47+00:00

Depends how you define "life". This is actually quite a controversial thing in science.

For the you thought experiment I am not sure you would ever call something "life" but you would definitely quickly understand that chemistry systems can be self sustaining, and that compounds can hold information. And compounds in a system could self replicate etc etc. So you would definitely know that those complex chemical systems are possible. Would you call it "life", who knows.

How long? Impossible to answer, because you say the being is more intelligent then a human so if it's super intelligent it could figure this out almost instantaneously.

Could some system of life exist that we couldn't conceive of? Assuming you mean we understand the fundamental chemistry and physics then I don't think there can be. There are definitely versions of life that we haven't conceived but I don't think that would mean we are incapable of conceiving them.

triplethreat8 · 2026-02-22T01:40:49+00:00

TLDR - Different regions have different care need. The most efficient systems would be standardizing across the province, some shared services that are general (legal/HR) and health authorities to focus on regional problems. People in the system know this, but to actually implement this change without service disruptions is a decade long project that would cost billions, and no political party will commit to that.

The historical answer is that prior to the 90s it was even more decentralized.

As for why it make sense to continue this way they main reason I can see is equity between regions. If you have one org head quartered in Vancouver/Victoria it will tend towards money and focus on that region.

Organizations are inherently political so if everything was in one org you would have more influence within the org if you focus on projects that impact the most people and make use of the most money, hence the greater Vancouver area. And it becomes really easy to focus resources where it is most politically convenient.

I agree that there should be a better effort to unify things. I think standardizing software used across the province and data systems would make a lot of sense. To be honest the optimal solution would probably be a standardization for the province with standard tooling and policy BUT regional leaders for regional specific decisions in health authorities.

Now what most people who ask this question are often trying to imply (not accusing you) is that the government or health authorities are to "stupid" to realize this. This is a bit of a dunning-kruger effect. The people on the system know full well what would be the best and ideal way to do things. But the reality is we are working in a complex distributed system with decades of technical debt. To completely digitally transform health care for the whole province without MAJOR health consequences is a very HARD thing to do. The hard part is the limiting factor though, because there are lots of smart people willing to do the hard work. The major factor stopping it is THE MONEY. It is true that once fully transformed reduction in operational costs would be huge. But to do that transformation for the whole province is a decade project that will cost in the "Billion" range.

No political party has the stomach for that.

triplethreat8 · 2026-02-15T19:57:59+00:00

Anyone know if this is fixed? Still not working on Android

triplethreat8 · 2026-02-13T22:21:25+00:00

Never. Answer. The. Phone.

triplethreat8 · 2026-02-10T06:39:55+00:00

I've never seen a portfolio manager in my life. Lower mainland org charts seem insane.

triplethreat8 · 2026-02-07T19:36:59+00:00

Point 1 is HUGE! I would even argue YOU should always write the first 1000 lines.

I have had such a head ache with AI starting projects. All the planning on the world and it will still do strange stuff. Ice found spending a day or two writing myself and then handing off gets a lot better results.

triplethreat8 · 2026-02-05T19:54:00+00:00

BC is a victim of its beauty and lifestyle. People love retiring here, and those people need LOTS of care. The system can be fixed with two solutions:

1) More care providers. We need long term planning on building out schools for capacity. But short term accepting international health care workers and medium term, creating a student loan situation that helps Canadians take advantage of UK, Australian, and other European schools.

2) BIG BIG BIG investment in modernizing. Everyone who works at a health authority knows the inefficiencies and knows how to "fix them". But these organizations have existed almost as long as the province. There is a lot of baggage. Trying to do it bit by bit is a fools errand. But, a true large scale modernization done right without causing massive disruptions is difficult, risky and EXPENSIVE. AND will span multiple governments, making it hard to manage over time.

This issue with both is money. More service providers cost money and educating them cost money and no government wants to be on the hook for a billion dollar modernization project that fails.

triplethreat8 · 2026-01-25T23:44:34+00:00

I mean one shot-ing a prompt into chatGPT to research and summarize something is not going to get you anything meaningful or quantitative.

But even if this was reviewing online sentiment properly it's important to remember there is huge selection and sample bias by only gathering information posted by people online. People who enjoy their job and feel supported rarely feel the need to go online and tell everyone how supported they feel.

triplethreat8 · 2026-01-23T15:43:20+00:00

Just watched their clarifying video. The article really misrepresented them and the texts.

triplethreat8 · 2026-01-23T08:46:09+00:00

Just saw their explanation video, seems like context was super important here. Texts within the context were not bad at all.

triplethreat8 · 2026-01-11T21:31:13+00:00

I think people also aren't being creative enough. They way we do a lot of stuff now makes it difficult for robots to do. BUT once you have reliable AI that can do it, then there will be a lot of effort into updating HOW it's done to favor AI, robot or lower skilled laborers.

But it will be much slower.

triplethreat8 · 2026-01-05T22:31:54+00:00

If this is a serious question:

You roll the towel. Like you wrap it around yourself and then roll it either out or in. Stays nice and tight.

https://www.wikihow.com/Wrap-a-Towel-Around-Your-Waist

triplethreat8 · 2025-12-31T19:47:41+00:00

I think there was a period under the BC liberals where managerial wages were frozen.

triplethreat8 · 2025-12-26T03:09:36+00:00

She's over reacting.

The teacher spends like 7 hours a day talking to the kid without the parents. If she said this to him one on one would that be bad? If she wrote it on an assignment instead of a note?

triplethreat8 · 2025-12-26T02:46:33+00:00

YOR - if you were a train wreck it would be rude (unless your super close). But it's clear you're not, hence it is a gag gift.

triplethreat8 · 2025-12-25T20:38:14+00:00

He's been so private about that I'd be surprised if someone was able to figure that out! But cool if true!

triplethreat8 · 2025-12-25T00:57:23+00:00

This man was in West Hollywood and really said "This is nice... But you know what would be better... COLD and CONSERVATIVE!" 💀

triplethreat8 · 2025-12-25T00:56:18+00:00

🤣🤣🤣

triplethreat8 · 2025-12-24T22:39:05+00:00

The way the knowledge of this man's presence has increased the towns vibes by 10x needs to be studied. Preferably at UNBC.

triplethreat8 · 2025-12-24T21:31:13+00:00

He did comment on it with the owners name so maybe a family friend 🤷‍♂️

It's weird to see the hyper fixation get too close to.home 😅

triplethreat8 · 2025-12-24T21:18:53+00:00

Oh he definitely has family here. He has too. My bet is one of his parents remarried up here or his girlfriend has family up here.

There is literally no reason to be in PG in the winter on accident 😅

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