It looks like the LLMs weren’t trained for medical tasks. The study would be more interesting if it had been run on something built for the task.

I’ve been playing Cyberpunk RED for around a year. Backstory is a huge part of the character creation process and GMs are encouraged to use backstory as hooks whenever possible.

I don’t really like it.

Some players like playing along with the backstory. Other players disengage fairly quickly.

It’s just another source for hooks and set pieces. If players like it, I roll with it, if they don’t, I let those plot lines dribble out. But it doesn’t really change the GMing or creative process.

I’m here for the dirty Dennis content

That is interesting. I wonder if they’re making the data public as part of the study. 😬

Subjectively, a stop light or stop sign must feel like an eternity for this guy. Or conversations, for that matter.

tl;dr there’s a bunch of base64-encoded PDFs in the Epstein emails. Buddy had a hard time extracting them because the files are exported as images and the one and ell characters are almost indistinguishable.

Dude eventually managed to distinguish them. 🤷‍♂️

It didn’t work for me, either. Maybe it depends on the languages? I was trying French to English.

I agree with letting air out of the balloon slowly. That’s what rezoning and densification shoots to do.

My experience with densification was seeing 600k houses (that I could almost afford) be replaced with 2-4 1.1m houses (that I could not afford).

We should pursue densification and rezoning are positive for many reasons, but price isn’t one of them.

But limiting available capital (ie: competing for mortgages)? In what world does that make sense?

A world where prices are increasing faster than wages. We’ve had historically low interest rates since 2008, which has made borrowing large sums easier, meaning people can afford to pay more for houses.

That was great for people who got in early: they could get cheap money that wouldn’t reduce their quality of life. But it means they could bid up the price of houses. Folks coming after had to pay higher and higher prices, until they did start to see a quality of life hit.

ssh

I’ve always enjoyed Bizarro, but I didn’t know these were a thing. Thanks for the link.

I’m rewatching season one. It’s excellent.

Nibble

I can’t speak for Vancouver, but in Ottawa, I’m in a suburb that has a tonne of empty nesters living in 4 bedroom houses. There are young families that could use that space, but the current residents have no incentive to move. Housing is so expensive that selling off and moving to a smaller place would be hard. It’s bizarre.

I heard somewhere that there are a few tens of Canadians in Chinese jails. When I see bullshit like this, it makes me wonder if any of them actually committed a crime.

In journalism there’s a phrase: feed the goat. Journalists need to produce a certain number of articles a day to keep their job, regardless of quality or relevence. This is an example of that: someone did what they should, and searched up famous Canadians in the Epstein, found zilch, and posted their findings.

In this case, everyone is interested in the “Epstein” keyword, so I’m sure it’s getting lots of traffic.

The goat is pleased.

Housing is seen as a huge part of Canadians’ retirement planning. Politicians are afraid to do anything to lower the price of housing (remember Carney’s housing minister saying they didn’t want to reduce house prices?) because they think they’ll be punished by voters. Because of that, house prices keep increasing.

It’d be great if there was a bi-partisan consensus to gently let the air out of the balloon by carefully lowering the amount of money available in mortgages, or the amount of money exempt from taxes on the sale of a primary residence. By all means, increase supply at the same time, but we also need to make homes less of an asset.

finally all those hours staring at the Sears catalogue will pay off

I believe the rebate is only available to vehicles sold from countries that have free trade agreements with Canada. That excludes China.

We’re like 5 weeks into 2026! How often do these stats get updated?

I see the same thing loading messages, etc. I’d assumed the instance was slow, but maybe not.