Just saw someone get apprehended here by the police in downtown Ottawa. I really appreciate all of the hard work that our policemen and women do here. It's super underappreciated

Telling my kid I'm going to hand him over to ICE if he doesn't behave

Who's the biggest investor in new York? Just out of curiosity

I need like 10 bodies. 10, good, able bodies. They need to be able to solder and they need to be able to code and they need to be caught up with frontier AI research and they need to be based and they need to be able to do CAD. And they need to live in Ottawa

hiring is so hard. all of my friends that I would hire are unhirable

BREAKING NEWS The British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives has ordered Amy Hamm @preta_6 to pay $93,639.80 and will suspend her nursing license for one month. According to the College's Discipline Committee, this staggering penalty is "reasonable and necessary," "not...punitive," "nor so high that it will deter others from raising reasonable defences." This is the state of freedom of expression in Canada. Amy's protracted battle with the College began in 2020, after she publicly defended the right of women to access female-only spaces, such as washrooms, crisis centres, sporting events, and prisons. Here's what Amy has to say: “The College has chosen to punish me for statements that are not hateful, but truthful. I’m appealing [to the BC Supreme Court] because biological reality matters, and so does freedom of expression. I want to express my thanks to the thousands of Canadians who continue to fund my legal case through donations to the Justice Centre.”

I really appreciate the large monuments in the parks scattered around downtown Ottawa. The people who built this city truly have left me a gift

Prompt engineering is getting weird

neural networks are only good optimizers given the alignment of the reward

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke explains Goodhart’s law and why he doesn’t like KPIs or OKRs “Goodhart’s law is real. The moment a metric becomes a goal, it’s no longer a useful metric… No metric by itself is a complete heuristic for a complex business. There’s a million different tensions in a company, and you can’t keep all of them in harmony by optimizing for one thing.” For this reason, Shopify doesn’t use KPIs or OKRs. But as Tobi explains, this doesn’t mean they don’t value data and metrics. “We are extremely data informed. We have invested enormous amounts of money and time into systems that give us basically everything at our fingertips… But what Shopify attempts to do is just not over-fit for what’s quantifiable.” People love optimizing for highly-quantifiable things because there’s immediate gratification that comes from seeing a number go up. But Tobi thinks that the most important aspects of a product are rarely quantifiable: “The overlap of the most valuable things you can do with a product and the things that happen to be fully quantifiable are like maybe 20%. Which leaves 80% of a value space unaddressable by the people who only look at quantifiable things.” He continues: “Shopify is comfortable with unquantifiable things like taste, quality, passion, love, hate… The sort of deep satisfaction that a craftsperson feels when they’ve done a job well is actually a better proxy if you allow it to be.” They then have robust analytics systems that tell the company if something’s wrong or a new rollout breaks something. “We think about it as a cockpit for a pilot. The decisions are still made by pilots, and we think this leads to better results… I think there needs to be more acceptance in business of unquantifiable things… And then metrics take a support function.” Video source: @lennysan (2025)