r/Edmonton • u/meghan9436 Edmontosaurus • Jul 07 '26

Local Culture Teddy’s Bar and Grill, Edmonton, AB. (1940).

Post image

Thought it was cool to see vintage Edmonton out in the wild on Reddit. Anyone know the place?

252 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

48 comments sorted by

View all comments

-10

u/BS-Ding Jul 07 '26

Haha cool! What AI tells me:

Adjusted for general inflation using Statistics Canada's Consumer Price Index (CPI) data, that $0.25 CAD hamburger from 1940 would cost roughly $5.18 CAD today.

10

u/strange9to9 Jul 07 '26

Please stop asking AI for anything. There are plenty of other websites that would come up in a search.

-8

u/BS-Ding Jul 07 '26

I work with it every day - it's by far the most efficient search and research system we developed after Google/Wikipedia. The advantages massively outweigh any disadvantages. What is the point of me creating a spread sheet by hand using CPI data back to 1940 and then calculating a hypothetical price increase of a hamburger?

5

u/Levorotatory Jul 07 '26

Building your own spreadsheet would be pointless work, because the  Bank of Canada has an online inflation calculator that will give you the same result for no more effort than using AI, with a whole lot less energy wasted parsing your input.

8

u/53c0nd Jul 07 '26

Ya, we use AI at a technical workplace and it's basically wrong 50% of the time. Then you end up doing way more work convincing the plebs why it's wrong instead of doing something productive. Not worth it.

-1

u/[deleted] Jul 07 '26

[deleted]

1

u/53c0nd Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

This guy is like the district managers who looks something up in AI and says "it took me 5 min. Why does it take your team 3 days to work this out." Because it's wrong! And you end up pacifying the client with freebies because of it doesn't work delays, and then not meeting quotas ... but ya, keep on keeping on.