AI

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    AI costs

    Let’s switch gears and talk about AI costs. The impetus for this topic is a quote I heard in a video: “…I saw one person who spent $5,000 worth of API calls on a $39 a month program. I think that this problem is across the industry.” Ed Z Ed Zitron on Prof G Markets…

  • Impact of AI on layoffs

    The layoffs are still ongoing, and Oracle looks like to be the posterchild for bad behavior although management did say the layoffs were for creating additional money to spend for AI infrastructure. At least that is how I understood it. Here’s the link to the Times article titled “‘Everyone’s a line on a spreadsheet:’ Inside…

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    Dates in Power BI

    In my last post, I wrote about using the “programming aspect” of Power BI to bring in unemployment numbers for 50 states rather than I manually importing and then merging them. And I talked about using AI to do that “programming”. During that exercise, I actually learned some new stuff, although I don’t think I…

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    AI and Power BI

    I mentioned a few posts ago that I was working on a data visualization project with another person (a finance director) to maintain our technical skills. This post will not detail all the elements that I have worked on but will focus mainly on the use of AI to help build the Power BI visuals….