Physician, heal thyself

People feel a lot of ways about the economy right now, but the Bank of Canada getting inflation under control without triggering a full-blown recession is actually pretty impressive and good.

CPI in March 2.4% year-over-year. Right in the BoC target range.

www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...

In the proud nerd dad department: my 6 year old is currently practicing typing by transcribing...his calculator manual

A good time to also tell the Canadian government to do something about bloated SUVs and pickups big as tanks, with deadly, blunt front ends, making life on the roads extremely dangerous for pedestrians, cyclists and passengers in small vehicles.

An orange cat curled up on a sofa next to a blanket and pillows

Missed caturday, so here's a Sunday Shortie pic

Especially when considering OpenAI's user numbers are leveling off, MS' Copilot numbers are in the tank, the main user surges seem to be during exam weeks, etc

Pretty consistent with a whole lot of people trying this tech and bouncing, IMO

Wire Mother by Isabel J. Kim Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

As ever I'm late on this sort of thing, but damn, yes this is the good stuff
clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/

I'm the third category, with a side of "my sibling in christ what the fuck are you doing"

I'm not talking quantization (and not all quant methods need calibration, btw), I'm talking a discrete post-training pass for the smaller models where they get distilled from larger ones
c.f. arxiv.org/abs/2505.09388

AFAIK it's standard practice to use the larger model as a teacher for its smaller versions - Qwen3.x did that lots

fwiw, all the small models rely on much larger models being continuously developed (pretrained and then finetuned, at great cost), so the small models can then be distilled from the larger ones. they're a side effect and afterthought, and their standalone economics are completely unknown

That sort of thing doesn't even want to be a toy, which can be played with in unintended ways, it wants to be a tour guide

what was their motivation?

(mistake a reduction in [...] for a, edit button when)

Are drones one of those things where manpower shifts further behind the lines and thus disappears in Some People's eyes, which they mistake for a reduction in frontline casualties for a reduction in personnel?

I was a deinonychus kid even before Jurassic Park, and JP's velociraptors were really slightly smaller deinonychus, so I bask in my dinosaur hipsterdom forever while the hoi polloi thought jumped-up chickens were great

I was a 90s kid, and very much an alt-rock kid, and I'm gonna say this: who the fuck are or were Pavement

Look forward to hearing how they plan to do this without verifying everyone’s identity on social media to make sure you’re not a teenager

This is why I say I don't like the gov's framing at all (nor their proposed solution) - these are the same people who railed and whined about rewarding students for "mere" participation when they first got into power

High school is different than college in an important aspect: it's mandatory, and the responsibility of the state to do everything they can to educate their students to a certain minimum level. You can't give in to letting them self-select like you can in college, which they're paying to be

Generally speaking (not counting AI these days, which is a whole other thing), if they aren't in class regularly the coursework *doesn't* all get done and the learning goals *aren't* all met

My mom's retired now, but when she taught HS she could tell you in detail what the real problems were, but then there was a whole category of problems imagined wholesale by outsiders going on vibes

Like I said, it's a problem - I just dislike the way the Ford gov't is presenting the numbers, because it gets a lot of people without kids in high school riled up about "kids these days"

That's 40% going to 90% or more of classes, it's not 40% going to school at all. Still a problem, but not the same kind of problem

I think that difference is more easily split than you think: anything they can hypothecate and borrow against is taxable

(Also I'm not convinced forcing them to slowly reduce their ownership stakes is a bad idea)

Can't speak to the US or UK, but here there very much *is* a conspiracy to price gouge, to the point where sometimes (like the bread price fixing scandal) there are even a semblance of consequences. It's not the primary driver of inflation, but it did and does happen

The pro-Canada forces need to fight like their country depends on it It's easy to dismiss the Alberta separatist movement as a bunch of poorly-informed malcontents who are motivated by some combination of fear, anger and selfishness. Just remember: they said the same t...

Memo to the federalist forces in Alberta: stop fucking around and start fighting. #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/13/o...

Wasn't quite in half for me, was like one word and the first letter of the next, like the suggestions misfired?

A thousand years from now Mar A Lago is going to be an independent island city-state as the historical seat of the Ameripope

Gotta admit my brain is very much 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR seeing this