Eugene Meidinger
@sqlgene.com
Data training for busy people.
Working on something interesting with Power BI and AI
November 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Working on something interesting with Power BI and AI
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Quit scrolling and start posting! Because the #DAX and #AnalysisServices team are now LIVE and answering YOUR questions. Jump in and have fun!
Link: aka.ms/powerbiama
#PowerBI #MicrosoftFabric
Link: aka.ms/powerbiama
#PowerBI #MicrosoftFabric
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Quit scrolling and start posting! Because the #DAX and #AnalysisServices team are now LIVE and answering YOUR questions. Jump in and have fun!
Link: aka.ms/powerbiama
#PowerBI #MicrosoftFabric
Link: aka.ms/powerbiama
#PowerBI #MicrosoftFabric
Does anyone have any experience intentionally keeping multiple branches of the same model?
I'm thinking it would be useful to have small variations of a report for demos.
So a base model, a variation with a missing dimension table, one with intentionally slow DAX code, etc.
I'm thinking it would be useful to have small variations of a report for demos.
So a base model, a variation with a missing dimension table, one with intentionally slow DAX code, etc.
November 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Does anyone have any experience intentionally keeping multiple branches of the same model?
I'm thinking it would be useful to have small variations of a report for demos.
So a base model, a variation with a missing dimension table, one with intentionally slow DAX code, etc.
I'm thinking it would be useful to have small variations of a report for demos.
So a base model, a variation with a missing dimension table, one with intentionally slow DAX code, etc.
@itsnotaboutthecell.com Interesting!
November 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
@itsnotaboutthecell.com Interesting!
Writing about LLMs is causing Reddit trauma:
"Every single day, I see people ask technical questions on the Power BI Subreddit while providing no code, no intention, no context whatsoever and then expect us humans to somehow answer it. I suspect many people treat LLMs the same way."
"Every single day, I see people ask technical questions on the Power BI Subreddit while providing no code, no intention, no context whatsoever and then expect us humans to somehow answer it. I suspect many people treat LLMs the same way."
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Writing about LLMs is causing Reddit trauma:
"Every single day, I see people ask technical questions on the Power BI Subreddit while providing no code, no intention, no context whatsoever and then expect us humans to somehow answer it. I suspect many people treat LLMs the same way."
"Every single day, I see people ask technical questions on the Power BI Subreddit while providing no code, no intention, no context whatsoever and then expect us humans to somehow answer it. I suspect many people treat LLMs the same way."
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So our entire economic well being hinges on a company with $20B in revenues spending $1.4T on AI infrastructure when there isn’t enough electricity generated on the planet to power that many data centers?
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
So our entire economic well being hinges on a company with $20B in revenues spending $1.4T on AI infrastructure when there isn’t enough electricity generated on the planet to power that many data centers?
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As AIs get smarter & more useful, our benchmarks become less useful. Measuring general knowledge or coding ability gives us only a glimpse into what an AI model can do.
Anyone who wants to use AI seriously for real work will need to assess it themselves. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/giving-you...
Anyone who wants to use AI seriously for real work will need to assess it themselves. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/giving-you...
Giving your AI a Job Interview
As AI advice becomes more important, we are going to need to get better at assessing it
www.oneusefulthing.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
As AIs get smarter & more useful, our benchmarks become less useful. Measuring general knowledge or coding ability gives us only a glimpse into what an AI model can do.
Anyone who wants to use AI seriously for real work will need to assess it themselves. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/giving-you...
Anyone who wants to use AI seriously for real work will need to assess it themselves. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/giving-you...
That feeling when you are just as interested in reproducible demos of something failing as you are it succeeding.
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
That feeling when you are just as interested in reproducible demos of something failing as you are it succeeding.
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Just found my new favorite blogger
A discussion with one of my research colleagues and @simonwillison.net led me to write this down.
"Full Stack Person" sounds like a mouthful, but IMO captures well the idea of becoming a well-rounded technologist.
den.dev/blog/full-st...
"Full Stack Person" sounds like a mouthful, but IMO captures well the idea of becoming a well-rounded technologist.
den.dev/blog/full-st...
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Just found my new favorite blogger
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
I think we might be cooked, y'all.
November 9, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I think we might be cooked, y'all.
Dangit they're right
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Dangit they're right
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bluesky branding refresh unveiled
November 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
bluesky branding refresh unveiled
[BLOG] Learning to Use LLMs as a Data Practitioner
www.sqlgene.com/2025/11/08/l...
www.sqlgene.com/2025/11/08/l...
Learning to Use LLMs as a Data Practitioner - SQLGene Training
We are in a weird, and frankly annoying, place with AI. Annoying because it’s being shoved in every single product, like notepad or MS Paint regardless of usefulness. Also annoying because the gap bet...
www.sqlgene.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
[BLOG] Learning to Use LLMs as a Data Practitioner
www.sqlgene.com/2025/11/08/l...
www.sqlgene.com/2025/11/08/l...
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Members of the Florida legislature earn $18,000 a year. Yes, they’re only in session for about 2 months, but consider who is even able to take on that kind of arrangement, and the ethical problems it all but guarantees. More money paired w/ far more stringent ethical requirements serves the public.
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Members of the Florida legislature earn $18,000 a year. Yes, they’re only in session for about 2 months, but consider who is even able to take on that kind of arrangement, and the ethical problems it all but guarantees. More money paired w/ far more stringent ethical requirements serves the public.
@jaypowerbi.bsky.social I will not be providing further contest at this time.
November 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
@jaypowerbi.bsky.social I will not be providing further contest at this time.
GPT-5 will auto-route you sometimes to GPT-5 Instant. If your model can't write 10 sentences ending in the word "apple" then DON'T USE IT.
November 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
GPT-5 will auto-route you sometimes to GPT-5 Instant. If your model can't write 10 sentences ending in the word "apple" then DON'T USE IT.
I'm seriously considering making "Applied LLMs for Power BI" for my next course. It would walk through theory, practical advice, and go from simple chat tasks to MCPs and agents.
If I do, what kind of content would you want to see?
If I do, what kind of content would you want to see?
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I'm seriously considering making "Applied LLMs for Power BI" for my next course. It would walk through theory, practical advice, and go from simple chat tasks to MCPs and agents.
If I do, what kind of content would you want to see?
If I do, what kind of content would you want to see?
Anything Greg B. says is worth listening to.
www.youtube.com/live/V0vQ-DJ...
www.youtube.com/live/V0vQ-DJ...
DevEx for Pros: UDFs, the Tools That Stick - Ep.473 - Power BI tips
YouTube video by Power BI Tips
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Anything Greg B. says is worth listening to.
www.youtube.com/live/V0vQ-DJ...
www.youtube.com/live/V0vQ-DJ...
Well that's not a good sign
November 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Well that's not a good sign