Jeff “Now I am become AI Slop” Weir

Jeff “Now I am become AI Slop” Weir

@insightsmachine.bsky.social

Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up sniffing Copilot

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Jeff “Now I am become AI Slop” Weir
@insightsmachine.bsky.social

Why would I want to outsource the creation of fun logic and UI/UX to a robot? Sure, it took me a while to work out how to generate the dynamic title. But on the upside, I got to do it myself! Working out how to do something is one of life's biggest pleasures! And how this works is kinda neat.

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Matt
@kiwimatt.bsky.social

Any parties have a policy to return Wellington wind levels to normal? This shit is getting ridiculous

Jeff “Now I am become AI Slop” Weir
@insightsmachine.bsky.social

Logged in to do a #PowerBI test for a job interview . First question SQL. Logged out. Sent email: Sorry, I don't do these. Happy to walk through my advanced Power BI projects in person, but I find tests like this dehumanizing, and often irrelevant to the position or tech stack I actually use.

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Raluca Terry-Enescu
@ralucahippie.bsky.social

Time to remind you of Bluesky's favourite Romanian language fact: In Romanian, when someone throws stupid tantrums hurting their own interest just to be an a hole, we say they "hit their own testicles with an adze (carpentry tool). The Romanian word for adze is Tesla.

Shawn Tiemann@shawnt.bsky.social

It’s a legitimate threat from the richest man in the world but he’s also sooooo fucking lame. Who talks like this lmao

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Christina Holland
@mortalwombat.info

Replying to @mortalwombat.info

I think they should do a commercial where a guy is about to tell his kids a bedtime story and then his boss calls on the phone and is like "I need that report NOW, I'm meeting with the VP tomorrow" and the guy pushes an AI button and it says "third quartprer report sent!" and tells his kid a story

Jeff “Now I am become AI Slop” Weir
@insightsmachine.bsky.social
The Guardian@theguardian.com

New AI tool can predict cancer survival by a single patient selfie, study suggests

theguardian.comNew AI tool can predict cancer survival by a single patient selfie, study suggestsSystem can estimate a person’s biological age and predict chances of cancer survival from a single photograph Doctors have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can predict a cancer patient’s chances of survival from a single photograph of their face. The AI system was custom-built by experts at Mass General Brigham, a nonprofit, integrated academic healthcare system in Massachusetts, to estimate biological age and directly predict survival outcomes in patients diagnosed with cancer. Continue reading...

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Chaz Hutton
@chazhutton.com

AI Slop Design School… (Did I spend hours meticulously recreating a horrible poster just to take the piss out of it? Hell yeah I did)

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Ken Puls, FCPA, MS MVP
@excelguru.ca

It was awesome having @wynhopkins.bsky.social present at last week's Vancouver #PowerBI and Modern Excel meet-up! He showed us how small improvements in workbook design, navigation, formatting, and automation can make a big difference to our #ExcelReports. 🤩 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9riY...

youtube.comExcel Like a Consultant (Pro Techniques that WOW Clients) | Wyn HopkinsIn this Vancouver Power BI & Modern Excel User Group meetup, Microsoft MVP Wyn Hopkins presents Excel Like a Consultant: Pro Techniques That Wow Clients, sharing practical tips and techniques for…

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Cyan Korax
@t.cyankorax.com

One of my favourite fun vinyl records for spooky season. Nightmare Before Christmas, in the animated print edition. It's a double album and each side has a different set of little cute animations.

Jeff “Now I am become AI Slop” Weir
@insightsmachine.bsky.social

TIL the [AlternateResult] arg in SELECTEDVALUE() returns BLANK and not [AlternateResult] if a user has selected everything in the #PowerBI slicer who's column you are referencing. You need a COALESCE to catch this. =COALESCE ( SELECTEDVALUE ( SomeTable[SomeColumn], "FOOBAR" ), "FOOBAR" )

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Jeff “Now I am become AI Slop” Weir
@insightsmachine.bsky.social

If I wrap a COALESCE around my SELECTEDVALUE measure to turn BLANK into -1 it returns TRUE consistently regardless of whether all Slicer items are unselected or all selected, as expected. But I don't understand why the COALESCE is needed, as SELECTEDVALUE should not return BLANK.

Jeff “Now I am become AI Slop” Weir
@insightsmachine.bsky.social

TIL the [AlternateResult] arg in SELECTEDVALUE() returns BLANK and not [AlternateResult] if a user has selected everything in the #PowerBI slicer who's column you are referencing. You need a COALESCE to catch this. =COALESCE ( SELECTEDVALUE ( SomeTable[SomeColumn], "FOOBAR" ), "FOOBAR" )

Jeff “Now I am become AI Slop” Weir
@insightsmachine.bsky.social

Actually I think a Type Coercion issue is being introduced by an IF statement that returns a numerical value (-1) if nothing is selected, otherwise passes through TRUE or FALSE as selected. A different branch of the IF is executed if slicer cleared vs all items selected. I don't understand why.

Jeff “Now I am become AI Slop” Weir
@insightsmachine.bsky.social

TIL the [AlternateResult] arg in SELECTEDVALUE() returns BLANK and not [AlternateResult] if a user has selected everything in the #PowerBI slicer who's column you are referencing. You need a COALESCE to catch this. =COALESCE ( SELECTEDVALUE ( SomeTable[SomeColumn], "FOOBAR" ), "FOOBAR" )

Jeff “Now I am become AI Slop” Weir
@insightsmachine.bsky.social

Trying to work out if it is possible to create "Analyze in Excel" templates based on #PowerBI semantic model that has RLS kick in in BEFORE the user views the file, and it seems the answer is "no". i.e. any user will see a "snapshot" of all the data until they enable content.