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zhendlin | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: Toivo – A Smarter Assistant

What are the mechanisms to actually ensure that something is done?

For instance skyvern and agent E are awesome open source frameworks but often times will say a task is completed, but it actually has not done the action.

zhendlin | 2 years ago

Call Google Gemini / BARD from Google Sheets directly and for free.

Here's a quick app script I put together so you can simply use =BARD() from within a gsheet

get your api key from google https://makersuite.google.com/app/apikey

in a gsheet, click "extensions" then "app script"

copy + paste the code here into code . gs

hit 'run' and give permissions

viola! you can now use =BARD(prompt) in gsheets!

Per Google: "Right now, developers have free access to Gemini Pro and Gemini Pro Vision through Google AI Studio, with up to 60 requests per minute, making it suitable for most app development needs." Source: https://blog.google/technology/ai/gemini-api-developers-clou....

zhendlin | 4 years ago | on: Is BI dead? – On dismantling data's ship of Theseus

A lot of conventional BI was focused on 'single player' mode -- basically an analyst running analysis at their computer and maybe dropping that graph into a presentation. This fundamentally limited the usefulness of of BI results (they got stuck in time and rarely updated in) and made follow-ups hard since the graph was no longer connected to the data source.

All the while things like Google Docs and Slack made collaboration around documents and ideas much easier with @mentions, threads, etc.

So BI can be a lot more useful if it is 1\ accessible anywhere (not just desktop or a crappy mobile app) 2\ collaborative -- bringing the mentions, shared questions, and ability to make decisions together 3\ not crazy expensive (looking at your tableau + looker)...because at these high price points the tool ends up not getting offered to everybody, it ends up being more limited in who gets access and hence less useful across a company

Full disclosure, I built Zing Data which is an app for mobile first business intelligence and is free for small teams. Works with PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Google BigQuery. https://www.getzingdata.com/

Would love any feedback folks have -- we're actively improving it and I'm sure this community has a lot of great ideas!

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