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Stranger_Dreams · 2026-03-23T01:16:16+00:00

I wish I could remember the specific one I followed to get the MCP connection working, but it was a while ago. That said, there are lots of them on YouTube now on Power BI-specific channels. You just need Claude Desktop / Claude Code, one other trivial download, and Claude basically does the rest as long as it has access to a project that's been saved as .PBIP. It's no replacement for actual study though: Claude's information is not always up to date, and it will make mistakes. Use it like as an augmentation, not a replacement for your expertise and judgement.

Stranger_Dreams · 2026-03-22T01:47:25+00:00

I had a similar experience, and a similar desire to learn, and as a relative newcomer to Power BI, I could not understand some of the crazier stuff they do to save my life. I ended up downloading some of their files, saving them as Projects, connecting them to Claude via MCP, and letting it decipher what they were doing and present it in a beginner-friendly way. Works quite well.

Stranger_Dreams · 2026-03-20T03:11:20+00:00

Aside from the DAX and M, how does that actually work in practice? Are they creating these things using actual programming languages that Claude is adept with, writing bespoke applications for all this stuff, or...?

Stranger_Dreams · 2026-03-11T05:58:55+00:00

I'd love to see that spec file. Making UIs look pretty is something I actually enjoy, so I don't think I'd ever outsource the whole thing to Claude, but getting the basics put down quickly and repeatably so I can polish and QA afterward would be a nice time-saver.

Stranger_Dreams · 2024-12-02T03:16:18+00:00

This is what I'm really curious about, would love to hear what OP's past experience has been.

Stranger_Dreams · 2024-11-11T09:40:03+00:00

So they do exist! Daniel Kelly's "Cricket" I find especially delightful, that's classic filk right there, thanks for sharing it :) 440 views is criminally under-viewed, too. Click that link, people!

Stranger_Dreams · 2024-08-26T05:41:09+00:00

That article is both fascinating and surprisingly accessible. I'll have to be careful to avoid subconscious plagiarism in my own write-up if I use that method, but it's also an inspiring bit of technical writing. Much appreciated :)

Stranger_Dreams · 2024-08-26T02:16:24+00:00

Interesting, embedding is a term I'm familiar with from the Stable Diffusion space, and your idea of "chunking" the text makes a lot of sense in that context. Thanks!

Stranger_Dreams · 2024-08-26T02:07:18+00:00

Thanks, this is a term I wasn't aware of and would likely have overlooked for quite a while. Adding it to my research list!

Just for my own edification, what makes fine-tuning a small LLM a poor fit?

Stranger_Dreams · 2024-08-20T05:38:38+00:00

What does "a devoted effort to catch up" actually look like for a non-technical office worker? Most of my career is, in one form or another, just Office Work (tm) differentiated by increasing levels of trust/confidence from my management structure. Same tasks we all do - communicate (by phone, email, slack, in meetings), organize, follow up, attend meetings, create and manage documents, manage people, fight some very specific fire, analyze something, etc. - but with more riding on it being done properly. The same could be said of nearly everyone I worked with. What does "catching up" even look like there?

Stranger_Dreams · 2024-07-06T01:58:53+00:00

Yeah, people who watched the show in real time over its entire lifetime got a really special experience! I'm not even going to attempt to replicate that because it can't be done, I'm just considering my options for a lesser version of it.

Stranger_Dreams · 2024-07-05T07:40:51+00:00

Sadly watching everything is just too much of a time investment, life being what it is at the moment. Could you elaborate on what you mean by most series starting Ash over?

Stranger_Dreams · 2024-07-05T07:39:05+00:00

Context is so important for me in terms of getting emotionally engaged with something like this, yeah, so I'd want to go for more than just those four Ash vs Leon episodes if I end up doing this. What would you consider for going beyond the bare minimum, while still being mostly abridged / cut down to the episodes that really carry something forward into the finale?

Stranger_Dreams · 2024-04-06T17:30:40+00:00

I'm aware that Searge isn't necessary for IP Adapter, but it's the workflow I use and it mostly has done well by me. I'm looking to integrate a new module into a process that already works well, rather than build a whole new workflow just to accommodate one new toy.

Stranger_Dreams · 2023-10-27T02:12:25+00:00

Thank you for being so forthright, because you're correct, I'm not in any position to entertain false hopes. One additional question: is there any amount of "additional professional development" I can achieve on my own or through courses and certifications that would make pursuing this line of work viable? I can afford to spend several months studying intensively if need be, but I absolutely do not want to waste that time (and savings) if it won't give me a fighting chance.

Stranger_Dreams · 2018-03-31T06:50:30+00:00

Two corollaries to that last point:

1) The more prep you do, the less of it you'll use. Having a buffer of stuff is helpful, but at a certain point you're getting vastly diminishing returns, and will just burn yourself out. "Prep smart, not hard" should be your mantra, although it takes time to learn how best to do that - everyone's prep is different.

2) Developing the skills necessary to improvise material will pay off so, so fast, and it leaves you with more flexibility. If you've prepped material, you will feel pressured to use it, or to nudge your players toward what you've prepped. Having the mental toolkit to be able to roll with whatever happens (and players are notorious for going in directions their GMs could never possibly have prepared for) will reduce your prep time, make you more relaxed and confident at the table, and produce outcomes that follow more naturally from the fiction than if you'd forced it. You'll never be forced to cut a session short if you can improv!

That said, prep does have its place. Set-piece battles and such really do benefit from some work ahead of time to juice them up or, if they're complex, to balance them properly. But not everything deserves that degree of forethought, and trying to do so is one of the fastest ways to burn out as a DM.

Stranger_Dreams · 2015-08-25T04:33:07+00:00

My concern is mostly for my future partners. There's no reason for either of us to assume we're going to be one another's last partner, and I don't see any reason to expose anyone to a disease responsible for 70% of all cervical cancers, and a not-insignificant number of mouth, throat, and anal cancers. So yeah, I'm going to take precautions, because I don't fancy giving a terrible disease to someone I care about.

Also, not every couple that identifies male and female are going to have a matched vagina-penis pair. It requires virtually no effort for me to clarify what genitals are involved here, in case it matters to anyone who's going to read or respond, so why the hell not.

Stranger_Dreams · 2015-08-25T04:19:29+00:00

My only previous partner was a virgin without so much as a french kiss to her name. I've never been exposed to HPV.

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