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So, the November weather was and is weird and seems to be signaling strong signs of climate change. Now, I already believe that we are already moving through the change but how deep are we going to move in I don’t know. There are others – fewer and fewer every year – who still deny…
Do you have trouble detecting AI hallucinations? I know they are out there, but they don’t seem to appear when I use CoPilot. Of course, I’m using CoPilot on topics where I’m not an expert. When it comes to the programming or setting up new Excel tricks, I can immediately tell when CoPilot is wrong…
The genesis of the question Every once in a while, I will read some articles saying hiring managers are looking for AI skills, even for positions in accounting or marketing. Or maybe something along the lines of hiring managers will not hire anyone without AI skills. Those types of articles leave me frustrated because I…
“Nowhere is safe” – Asheville, North Carolina resident Oliver Milman, “‘Nowhere is safe’: shattered Asheville shows stunning reach of climate crisis”, The Guardian, October 1, 2024 When I last did my last post last week, I had no idea the devastation that would be wrought by the hurricane. I feared it would be bad for…
There are various types of forecasting: corporate finance, weather, political polling, etc. Some are probably using new AI tools to aid in the prediction business. Business forecasts I’ve done a lot of the corporate finance type forecasting where I would send to corporate what the team or location thought would be the financial result for…
Something a little different tonight: talking about pricing. I’m not talking about pricing models created to figure out what to charge for a service or product. That topic is a typical FP&A topic. Not tonight though. It’s economic. It’s terminology which I have never really thought about before: price controls versus price fixing versus price…