This site under reconstruction.
During the past two weeks, I have encountered 2 articles that discusses the upcoming impact of artificial intelligence on the nature of work. In particular, both negates the common wisdom of learning STEM skills to inoculate you from the impact. Right now, someone is building a machine intelligence that will be able to do scientific…
This will be a very quick post. Yesterday I was working on the ACA and I was googling some stuff when I started upon seeing one of my pictures in the search results. I thought “Hey, that’s my picture!”. I hovered my cursor over the picture and sure enough, the link was to this website.Hmmm,…
Hopefully today’s post will be a short post on some of the changes I had to make in the macro that help generate the XML file. The actual generation of the XML file is done through using the Source feature found under the Developer tab in Excel. The method hasn’t changed although the starter file…
These past two weeks, I spent a lot of time doing creative problem solving to get rid of empty tags in the ACA electronic submission file. Last year, I was able to submit my electronic file with a bunch of empty tags but this year, the government is not allowing the empty tags. So I…
I recently read something from McKinsey about automation and the future. The overall theme, which was a little too rosy, is that the automation future will happen slower than we think and that it will be a world where humans will work with machines (rather than total takeover by machines). Automation will bring about economic growth and…
Let the games begin! It’s time to do the ACA Reporting. Last year, when we were at the stage of developing the paper report, reviewing the data was so onerous that the HR VP said that we were going to do it differently the next year (meaning 2017). So I kind of took it to…