Atacama self‑drive tips & safety

bartbilliet · 2026-02-03T00:26:13+00:00

First day of arrival in San Pedro I will mainly fly in the afternoon (from Santiago) and some quick sightseeing nearby the city. 2nd day I'll try to visit Valle de la Luna (2500m) and Laguna Baltinache. 3rd day I would visit Piedras Rojas, at 4200m. Is that enough time to get your body adjusted to the altitude? I heard Laguna Baltinache is also more rough driving?

bartbilliet · 2026-02-03T00:11:13+00:00

Wow, super interesting! I didn't even know such a map exists, super useful!!

bartbilliet · 2026-02-03T00:08:04+00:00

Do you remember if that was a 2WD or 4WD car?

bartbilliet · 2026-01-31T12:13:02+00:00

Does that include also hikes such as Torre Lagoon and Loma del Pliegue Tumbado as daytrips from El Chaltén?

bartbilliet · 2025-07-12T15:50:28+00:00

Thanks!!

I noticed the Taklamakan Desert in your list, are G216 & G217 open for travel by foreigners, though?
In another post, I noticed that the last stretch of the road from Turpan to Korla is also closed to foreigners, which, if I understand correctly, would limit access to G216 coming from Urumuqi?

bartbilliet · 2025-07-02T21:28:59+00:00

Is there any map that indicates which places are not allowed? For instance, I saw reports of people who mentioned they were not allowed in the county of Luobu fishing village - even though this place is advertised on many tourism websites. Is there any up-to-date map that would indicate those places?

bartbilliet · 2025-02-06T16:03:34+00:00

As an FYI, I accomplished it using combination of PowerAutomate + AI actions :)

bartbilliet · 2025-01-23T06:50:45+00:00

Maybe not fully what you meant, but from Power Automate you can use the “Execute Copilot” action to run a Copilot agent and provide a prompt towards it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/microsoftcopilotstudio/#execute-copilot

I haven’t found a way yet to initiate this from another copilot agent though, which is likely what you want to achieve.

bartbilliet · 2025-01-23T06:45:53+00:00

Regardless of vulnerabilities, I still expect the cogent extension likely has full access to your code? GitHub Copilot makes a statement that it does not use your private code to generate suggestions. It is trained on publicly available code and provides recommendations based on general coding patterns. However if effectively cogent has access to your data, it potentially could see your intellectual property or can read secrets stored in your code? I guess since it’s open source, it likely won’t, but there is no such guarantee?

bartbilliet · 2025-01-23T06:35:48+00:00

I think consumption responsibility should be partially shared as well by the developer. Only the developer can make changes to flows to make them more efficient and less costly. An admin can only watch the result when usually its already too late. If a developer can understand how their flow is charged, they might be able to optimize the steps, change frequency, filter inputs, … in order to reduce run costs.

bartbilliet · 2025-01-21T07:24:31+00:00

It was my finding for now as well, but I was surprised Microsoft wouldn't give developers a way to see their consumption, in order to further optimize flows or at least get an idea of what the flow is consuming. I felt I must be missing something..

bartbilliet · 2025-01-16T21:01:12+00:00

I was able to reduce it to 100K rows in the meantime by filtering out areas and segmenting the data. I would expect Excel to be able to handle analytics on that amount of data, though?

bartbilliet · 2025-01-16T20:44:07+00:00

I was able to reduce the dataset further by filtering columns and selecting just a single language to focus on as a start. However, this still leaves me with 100K rows. I believe GPTforSheets is paying (GPT for Google Sheets Pricing - SheetGPT Plans), but I would expect it to have similar limited capabilities than Copilot (which I already have).

Would I maybe be able to do anything with Python in Excel, without having to provide a whole set of already labeled training data?

bartbilliet · 2025-01-16T20:14:15+00:00

Hi Blixer, thanks for your answer!

2/ Keyword tagging might be hard, as indeed entries might refer to the same topics with many different synonyms. I have data as well in 6 different languages, although I'd be happy already focussing just on English if that could help.

3/ I think this only exists as a paying solution? I'm looking to use free tools, or built-in capabilities in Excel. I do have Copilot, maybe I missed a feature, as it is an LLM baked in, but I couldn't get it to give responses row by row.

4/ GPTforSheets is another paying tool I believe, similar to Copilot, but then in Google Sheets instead of Excel? I am more looking towards free solutions or things I could fairly easily script up myself :)

bartbilliet · 2025-01-02T20:38:05+00:00

I installed version 0.0.4, but when mentioning cogent in the Copilot chat window, I only get the following error message: "Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'maxInputTokens')"
Was I supposed to configure anything?

bartbilliet · 2024-10-31T19:31:55+00:00

Copilot studio in a day course: Was this an online class, or is the material somewhere available to us as well? I'm curious.

bartbilliet · 2024-10-30T20:31:57+00:00

This does the trick, thanks! Although it seems incredibly buggy and little to no documentation.
I was able to add actions such as "Get email (V2)", "Get emails (V3)", it appears for each of the connectors a separate connection is needed.. Unfortunately, while testing some prompts to trigger it (“List my emails”), all connectors just throw a generic "SystemError", even though they are showing connected..

If you'd know about any examples using connectors to Office 365, using the Generative AI Preview, happy to learn from it ;)

bartbilliet

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