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• @n2theblue.bsky.social @n2theblue.bsky.social on bluesky

  Enterprise data is never fully accurate and up-to-date in my experience [embedded post]

• @recombobulating.bsky.social @recombobulating.bsky.social on bluesky

  This was an endless cycle of frustration when I was working in data analysis.  It doesn't matter how new and shiny your system is if the data isn't accurate or up to date.  —  But nobody at the top wants to look at the boring difficult stuff.  They just want the magical promises.…

• @elizabethbitmeehan.com @elizabethbitmeehan.com on bluesky

  High key why I'm skeptical of arguments that start from the premise that “data is cheap” today.  Good data is expensive as hell to set up and maintain collection! [embedded post]

• @hammancheez.bsky.social @hammancheez.bsky.social on bluesky

  Its almost like every place you have ever worked is a collection of 5 half implemented tools underpinned by 4 excel spreadsheets owned by 2 people on a share drive you can't personally access but if they were accidentally deleted the business would close [embedded post]

• @ricardo.bsky.social Ricardo J. Méndez on bluesky

  “On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’  I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”  — Charles Babbage [embedded post]

• @davidwunderlich.bsky.social David Wunderlich on bluesky

  Garbage In, Garbage Out is one of the original problems with computer systems.  It's nothing new with AI, though AI vendors have vastly over promised their products as a solution to it.  [embedded post]

• @edzitron Ed Zitron on x

  Are you KIDDING ME? This is exactly what they've been selling! The whole thing is that AI is meant to magically change your business! [image]