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I don't think I know a Brian

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Just here. Slowly dying.
Personal Account. Not representative of any organisation.
Interests in Dataviz / Intelligence / Philosophy / Psych / Linguistics / Cultural History / Knitting / Alpacas
I don't think I know a Brian
We do that to cows, horses and chickens?
insisting something could be intelligent, and yet we don't know what intelligence is? do you even hear yourself? "the AI is orgleblat. no one can deny that it is, because we don't know what orgleblat is."
When your visuals used to great praised for looking pretty and now they get praised for looking ugly (or imperfect) I'm cool with that.
My child also hates AI. She also hates the teachers that use AI (poor things)
Have you checked out this week's Workout Wednesday for Power BI from Andrei Khaidarov?
The challenge is to make an interactive Financial Metric Map. Give it a try!
www.workout-wednesday.com/pbi-2026-w40/
#PowerBI #Wow2026
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Guac, no, you mean mushy peas
The MENSA site has a tonne of them, which I'd argue are easier than these...
1 and 8 are hard because I struggle to hold that much info in my working memory
The only problem, is sometimes there can be multiple plausible answers when doing these (because these are pattern-based), but only one right answer for the test
Oooh. They look different... I love non-verbal reasoning.
Hearts from young donors age rapidly in older recipients, & older hearts are rejuvenated inside young people, according to a new study.
The findings (not yet peer reviewed) imply replacement organs could be sourced from older people than they are at present.
Perhaps if we worked with dolphins, and we needed to distinguish dolphin work from human work, it would be less so.
Referring to employees as "humans" is dehumanising. It's removing our personhood and reducing us down to a scientific and biological entity. I find it as insulting as if you were to call me a dog, bitch, cow or a pig.
Also, with the App experience coming to desktop, it's becoming more accessible and you may not feel quite so behind anymore...
When it comes to tooling, I've worked in organisations that have refused free 3rd party tools like TE and taken 6 months to get VS Code . . . Like, for most organisations, by the time I would get any approval to use the tools for agentic development - the technology stack has become redundant ...
You can't help a bad culture, my efforts have been the same (I wouldn't say 99.9% though). Sometimes you just have to work to pay the bills, and then occasionally you get a project that's impactful, or you make your own impact/purpose through other means. It's why I volunteer.
But Jeff, a lot of organisations are still running like they are straight out of the 1980s... You are not behind.
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