AI is an accelerant, not a replacement for skill. At least, not yet.
I built a full stack app in Python+typescript where AI agents process 10k+ near-real-time decisions and executions per day.
I have never done full stack development and I would not have been able to do it without GitHub Copilot, but I have worked in IT (data) for 15 years including 6 in leadership. I have built many systems and teams from scratch, set up processes to ensure accuracy and minimize mistakes, and so on.
I have learned a ton about full stack development by asking the coding agent questions about the app, bouncing ideas off of it, planning together, and so on.
So yes, you need to have an idea of what you're doing if you want to build anything bigger than a cheap one shot throwaway project that sort of works, but brings no value and nobody is actually gonna use.
This is how it is right now, but at the same time AI coding agents have come an incredibly long way since 2022! I do think they will improve but it can't exactly know what you want to build. It's making an educated guess. An approximation of what you're asking it to do. You ask the same thing twice and it will have two slightly different results (assuming it's a big one shot).
This is the fundamental reality of LLMs, sort of like having a human walking (where we were before AI), a human using a car to get to places (where we are now) and FSD (this is future, look how long this took compared to the first cars).
If you need to use C# in Excel, you're doing it wrong. There's very little programming that you should be doing with VBA, too.
Most of your programming should be DAX plus a bit of worksheet functions. Some SQL to filter your data before loading into Power Pivot.
SQL yes, of course. You run SQL queries to load data into Power Pivot through a native SQL Server driver or native drivers for your DB or worst case ODBC.
Then you do all the BI analytics in DAX and show results in pivot tables. DAX is a very fast, concise and very, very powerful language for analytics. This is the whole purpose of OLAP.
It's actually a sign of insulin over-secretion rather than poor insulin sensitivity.
However, in practice, there are signs as to whether you have good insulin sensitivity or not and possibly whether you over-secrete insulin. Here’s two very simple questions to ask yourself regarding your response to diet.
1. On high-carbohydrate intakes, do you find yourself getting pumped and full or sloppy and bloated? If the former, you have good insulin sensitivity; if the latter, you don’t.
2. When you eat a large carbohydrate meal, do you find that you have steady and stable energy levels or do you get an energy crash/sleep and get hungry about an hour later? If the former, you probably have normal/low levels of insulin secretion; if the latter, you probably tend to over-secrete insulin which is causing blood glucose to crash which is making you sleepy and hungry.
I don't understand why Lyle still doesn't mention the roles of insulin/leptin/dopamine receptors (and strategies to boost their results) in newer studies.
I've been doing Leangains style IF for the past four years. I'd like to share a few quick tips.
If anyone here wants to try intermittent fasting, do it for the sake of convenience. I don't eat breakfast or lunch, I just eat when I get home from work or after weight training. On weekends I break my fast earlier than on weekdays.
I wouldn't say you should do it for the "benefits" if it doesn't fit your lifestyle. Right now all we know is that it's not bad for you. It does work pretty well for hunger control, which can help if your goal is weight loss.
Also, don't live by the clock. It's OK to eat outside your feeding window, you might get hungry later during the day and the next day you might get hungry earlier.
Everybody's different, I use meal time and IF in part to limit what I eat. I have to because I love everything about eating, the taste, the feeling of eating, the socialising environment, etc.
. I ccan eat anything at any time, and have a bottom less stomach.
"Seeing" is the process of constructing meaning from the raw activation of the light receptors in your eyes. That's why optical illusions work. After all, it's simply patterns of ink on a page - why should you see things that seem impossible? It's because the image is designed to get your brain to construct a particular meaning out of the image.
I'm well aware of that. What I'm getting at is that the same process that produces changes in how visual sense data gets interpreted also produces changes in how all your other sense data gets interpreted. This includes the sense data that introspection and narrative construction generates.
I'd expect the camera to cost 2-800 and the processing/film to be about 30 bucks a cartridge. Too bad they don't make a color reversal film anymore, so you can project it too.
Also, the premise that it took each of them a year to do the project means Bob was slacking because he probably could've done it in less than a month.
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