Alex Mahrou

I've been tossing and turning on ChatGPT. I had to write something. To be honest, I don't jump on bandwagons easily. This thing has me hooked. @projectedxyzed/3-reasons-you-shouldnt-sleep-on-chatgpt-ccc819750b08" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@projectedxyze…

@sama What's untenable about the current system economics? If your SaaS was an ISV using the API's would they be in the black?

an idea for paid plans: your $20 plus subscription converts to credits you can use across features like deep research, o1, gpt-4.5, sora, etc. no fixed limits per feature and you choose what you want; if you run out of credits you can buy more. what do you think? good/bad?

@billdollins I've had a lightweight Thule for almost ten years.

I need recommendations for a laptop travel backpack. I was traveling a few months ago and my bag let go. I had to buy a replacement in the airport and it's been okay. It's actually a high-quality bag but lacks some features I would have noticed if I hadn't been in a hurry.

@mim_djo I can't help but say, this is the open secret.

a bit harsh, but maybe or maybe not wrong youtube.com/watch?v=6UlgVf…

@MapMakinMeyers Why? I dig it.

Geojson is the worst geospatial file format.

@DrNASApants Print the path to the file. Maps always need to be reopened, updated, etc....

@mim_djo I'm hoping for an event driven way to kick off pipelines and notebooks in fabric--not seen it yet!

Pro tip: if you have a notebook job that you care about in #Fabric , don't schedule directly but use Data pipeline - You can control concurrency - You can control timeout Data pipeline is virtually free and can save you a lot of Capacity Units.

@billdollins My first CD

I feel like I may be the only GenXer who wasn’t into Pearl Jam.

@PawarBI We're using Power BI embedded and this one is a conundrum for us. Can this memory value be trusted to plan for refresh? Is it available before the first refresh?

Scanning the #PowerBI tenant using #SemanticLink to get dataset size in memory :

@Milhouse @DMaslyuk Better than Ontology?

@DMaslyuk Bit awkward name, but “model” much better than “dataset” as it better describes what it is.

Datasets in #PowerBI to be rebranded as semantic models?

@sama Stay true to your vision, Sam. Growth comes with challenges, but your leadership will navigate through.

someone should write a book called 'the areas where you have to do the opposite of conventional management wisdom'

@dhh Could you go s3-less with something like minIO to lower bills and latency even more?

"Our cloud spend (sans-S3) is down by 60% already. From around $180,000/month to less than $80,000. That's a cool million dollars in savings at the yearly run rate. Just absolutely bonkers amount of money straight to the bottomline." world.hey.com/dhh/our-cloud-…

Sticker order arrived!

@mim_djo Yeah that trial size tho

#Fabric trial vs reality :)

@pmarca How can we solve for expanding the attention span?

Ask Me Anything about AI, or any of the topics in Why AI Will Save The World, as responses to this tweet and I will answer as many as I can. a16z.com/2023/06/06/ai-…

@notaboutthecell I agree item level security would be too much. I think it'd be great to just have folders to arrange everything. Folks can then choose to expand hierarchy individually or all at once-- kinda like in DevOps. Combine that with the ability for saving a "view" based on persona?

@mim_djo This right here is my favorite feature thus far.

Hot take : #PowerBI schedule refresh looks archaic compared to the new Python notebook scheduler

@notaboutthecell @PawarBI @JustynaLucznik +1 here, if we had PowerShell and some sort of off-the-shelf secret store that wouldn't make folks load up azure keyvault...

Please vote my idea to include PowerShell kernel in #MicrosoftFabric notebooks. Super helpful for API, admin and automation.

@mim_djo @DeltaLakeOSS Nice!

Brothers and Sisters, there is no catch, #fabric #lakehouse is legit, reading the same data using either #synapse SQL #synapse Spark #DuckDB with @DeltaLakeOSS

@eldar_dragomir @mim_djo The enterprise agreements (incumbency) and 1st to market Generative AI Productization in the Modern Data Stack (Power BI Copilot) But I agree, the supply chain is heavy on Open Source goodness elsewhere. It's a game of catch me if you can.

@mim_djo Snowflake and Databricks are so popular now and used everywhere, I think in current state companies are happy with their stack and Microsoft/AWS don't have any unique features... Am I wrong? What's the point to try/change for other stack?

People paying attention predicted that it was only a matter of time before #Microsoft and #AWS Catch up to #Snowflake and #Databricks, I think this happened this year, what's next for the market?

@eric_beery11 Is this a p sku? There's an auto scale feature that'll scale up during high CPU spikes.

#PowerBI Premium experts: are there best practices for ensuring that Analyze-in-Excel queries don't hog capacity resources? Just don't enable the feature in the first place? Struggling with sporadic high-cpu-usage queries generated from Excel, even on "optimized" models...