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Choosing an AI in Sept 2025
Some of you out there are positive about AI and looking to use them. Some of you aren’t too thrilled with the tools and might avoid using them. I think that not learning to harness the power of an AI … Continue reading
Don’t Forget About Financial Skills
I get a regular email from Quora, with questions that I might be able to answer or might be of interest to me. There are some database questions, some Tesla ones, and others, but recently I caught an interesting one … Continue reading
Getting More Time from AI
As I get older, I find that time is the most valuable commodity I have. It’s the one thing that I need more of, but I can’t get it. Even if I find more efficient ways of doing things, it … Continue reading
All the Costs of Downtime
I studied economics in university, which isn’t that close to database work, though I did have to work through linear regression problems by hand. I always enjoyed mathematics, so this wasn’t a hardship. Until I purchased a PC that was … Continue reading