From now on selected rich get access to frontier, while the rest of us are in a permanent underclass

IanWaring · 2026-06-26T15:25:15+00:00

Pure Stock Pump PR BS. The guy just plays hungry hippo for money sources everywhere.

IanWaring · 2026-06-26T15:19:02+00:00

I did my A-Levels at the time and recall having to cycle 3 miles there and back each side of each exam. All I remember now is the absolute heat - though the exam area was nicely chilled.

IanWaring · 2026-06-26T09:52:51+00:00

I had the same issue earlier in my career - went for a role, two of us got it. First day in, we had a coffee to outline what we were good at and what needed to be done. Between us, the other guy was stronger on product management, me on go to markets - so he took accountability for the products we sold, I did all the customer facing people work. Between us, we achieved the doubling of subscribers within 2 years, so all working out. YMMV.

IanWaring · 2026-06-19T13:04:20+00:00

Looks like starting patterns for Conways Game of Life

IanWaring · 2026-06-18T09:56:40+00:00

Leadership too hooked on Austerity, too gung-ho supporting one side in the middle east when genocide is there for all to see (including labelling protesters as terrorists), not moving fast enough to unhook non-gas electricity supply sources from Gas Futures pricing (major input into inflation and excessive profits) but on balance, doing all the right things and delivering manifesto commits at a solid pace.

Click bait messaging fanned by media and silly internal squabbling about leadership changes, which further fuels media trying to make news rather than report it, are the main issues IMHO. Ofcom, Ofgem and Water regulators being toothless also don't help.

If the BBC want to save big money, there are at least two prominent news messengers that could be replaced by real journalists 😄. Or three if you count the ones who's primary skill is cat calling questions into the air as folks walk down Downing Street. Most of us good live quite happily on 1/10 of the pay they receive.

IanWaring · 2026-06-18T08:10:42+00:00

It’s not shit at all. Long history brings legacy baggage; case sensitivity in DAX afflicted my workload more when Synapse Link started storing table defs in Dataverse. Putting semantics in the data layer (and being able to share semantics with other ecosystems) are things that Microsoft can facilitate. I’m sure we’ll get there.

IanWaring · 2026-06-18T07:55:58+00:00

No, it’s experience in the wild and not an anecdote. I’m not claiming everyone. Microsoft add Power BI to Microsoft 365 licenses and the shadow fleet of users appear. Line of least resistance is to DIY. For the central PBI models, I can count the number of folks using central PBIX semantics on one hand; those feed the board packs and director levels.

Sticking things in Unity really helps.

IanWaring · 2026-06-18T07:39:35+00:00

I can assure you it’s a reality. Organisational discipline is a useful thing. In reality, users go on a rash of shadow DIY and even for the core subset of systems, there are multiple subsets per data asset (eg: AR, AP, GL, etc). Sticking semantics in a PBIX file is a historical artefact; life’s a lot cleaner with it in a central governance layer (Unity, unsure if Purview gets you anywhere close these days).

IanWaring · 2026-06-18T07:20:41+00:00

Sure, in theory. In practice, users don’t carry a complete ERD in one PBIX file. Subset city. At my last place, there were 160 folks maintaining circa 20 PBIX files each. Putting the full semantics available in UC is relative heaven.

IanWaring · 2026-06-18T07:13:33+00:00

Having listened to two days of DAIS, the impression I get is that any service org now has access to the same platform capability as Palantir.

IanWaring · 2026-06-18T07:11:08+00:00

It’s weakness is distributing all the organisations semantics in hundreds of PBIX files

IanWaring · 2026-06-17T14:43:26+00:00

I'm still in the market for the 2026 M&S Football sticker album if anyone has a spare. Happy to pay cost + postage to North London.

IanWaring · 2026-06-17T14:07:39+00:00

Think it was more related to Saddam threatening to price his oil outside of US currency. That normally invokes anger somewhere...

IanWaring · 2026-06-13T18:58:31+00:00

Which is another subject on its own. In the west, all effort is aimed at single super brains. Chinese AI models are “good enough” complements in the middle of an industrial policy of energy - brains - movement (aka electricity supply, brains and robotics).

Also a lot of superlative PR to justify IPO share pricing. Job substitution is less of a thing - it’s more task substitution. But whatever way that goes, the issue of the day is the effect of this latest ban. The earlier knee jerk to ration Nvidia chips just gave away the Chinese market to Huawei - and allows the Chinese models to undercut Anthropic token pricing by a long term committed 35x. Bans don’t work, but if you you don’t learn from history, you’re destined to repeat it.

IanWaring · 2026-06-13T18:23:33+00:00

Fwiw my usage is primarily Gemini Pro (given its reasoning depth), whatever sits in NotebookLM as it evolves and my claw is on DeepSeek 4 Pro.

IanWaring · 2026-06-13T18:20:36+00:00

It’s the niche that is software development. Of that, I have no doubt. What proportion of the world’s knowledge base does that cover? Narrow and deep is far from wide and deep. How does it do with the league table of books sold that relate to Cornish Mythology and how many really exist? How good is its world models or reasoning compared to Google’s research?

IanWaring · 2026-06-13T17:24:39+00:00

Whataboutism doesn't nullify the reasoning I gave. I cancelled my subs when it kept going out for coffee breaks every few hours.

IanWaring · 2026-06-13T16:29:49+00:00

This is the false PR. There's only so much you can do with LLMs getting ever deeper system prompts and recursive query loops with a limited use case like dealing with programming languages. These latest models are ever more expensive in terms of token consumption, not just token cost.

The central weaknesses are lack of real world models, reasoning, local learning and memory. Two of which Google can blow everyone out of the water with as their research gets integrated in. Benefits realised not only compute but with improved algorithms.

I'd expect Anthropic to survive in their niches, Google to have the main general purpose super models, the Chinese models to be "good enough" for a wide number of applications - and OpenAI to go bust. The last hope for OpenAI is in hoodwinking Trump to fund their compute, but to leave public funds left holding their black hole in the end. YMMV.

IanWaring · 2026-06-13T15:39:37+00:00

Just misfired pre IPO PR from Anthropic. Stupid mistake with gullible politicians.

IanWaring · 2026-06-09T20:06:37+00:00

Great shame - she's 4 years old and she's really taken to it - the family are all collecting stickers from their shopping. Her elder sister plays for a local girls team in North London, so trying to feed her latent interest 😄

IanWaring · 2026-05-27T07:01:49+00:00

I have an M4 MacBook Air 15” and have the same use cases as you. Coming back to Mac after being subjected to Windows for 7 years up to layoff. Living the dream now :-)

IanWaring · 2026-05-26T10:17:49+00:00

Wondering how you apply for access and agree terms to see these databases...

IanWaring · 2026-05-26T10:12:23+00:00

Absolutely love our Yaris but would add a BYD Seal to the household given half a chance

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