Recommendation probably gets reviewed by a junior, which means they don't know enough to validate, but then KPMG gets to assign accountability to the human, fire them for "their error," then tweak the bot some more.

Another facet of your final statement: You also can't measure Firm Specific Knowledge. Especially given how companies drink their own branding kool-aid and refuse to call things universal names (looking at you MicroStrategy, "attribute" is a very doctrinal term for databases, not some random term you put in your BI User Guide), companies often forget to measure the productive effect of understanding the cultural idiosyncrasies of their own company. I think the real big block to eternal contractors everywhere is going to be this plus CEO egos. They will want people who worship the local god of the brand. They will want cronies. We could all rant on this line, or other, actual practical lines of reasoning, like knowing the right people at a firm, office politics, preferred methods of documentation or coding, etc.

I wanted to try and formalize this (how to measure the value of an employee's firm specific knowledge), but my advisor said "Yeah, you and every other PhD." This was in 2018.

Or is it playing dumb?

First hit is free, like IBM.
AFAIK, IBM discounts nearly all licenses to the Feds. They focus on the license revenue after design and implementation, and leave all that tricky sustainment and user training/change to a prime contractor.

Question is if AWS wants to use that model, or do the consulting as well.

I'm curious if this was a play at damage mitigation. Holmes is in jail for fraud against the super-rich and tarnishing their reputations, not for endangering the lives of countless people who trusted her machines.

Every five names must be condensed into an acronym (Johnson-Owens-Hubert-Figgins-Mulaney becomes Johfm). This is how we'll get new names!

I feel this is the perfect time to insert the classic Mitch Hedberg joke:
Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only disease you can get yelled at for having.
Damn it Otto, you're an alcoholic!
Damn it Otto, you have Lupus!
One of those don't sound right.

Yup. Teams does not need to ever think that it is the default app for a word document or spreadsheet.

Makes me think of my graduate economics classes where a "reliable" valuation model is 60% accurate.

Ironically, the automakers would complain that the things they bought (legislators) aren't behaving as promised.

If SimCity 2000 taught me anything, it will just be a localized swath of fire, but luckily, I never underfunded my fire departments.

I wonder how much of "How to Lie With Statistics" is being used.

Spoiler: the author of said (good) book about how to properly spot bad stats and refute them, was a payrolled tobacco lobbyist, who used his book to dispute all medical findings against smoking.

To add:
-Recent warmer winters have increased hydro power, due to milder temperatures and quicker thaws, meaning less consumption plus more water flow for generation.
-COVID shut down a lot of industrial sites, meaning much less consumption for the country.

I don't have mod points, but you deserve them. "Data Science" is today's version of "Big Data." BI companies hang their hat on having "Data Science" certifications for their products, companies advertise for "Senior Data Scientist," but none of these things is grounded in some kind of professional organization and properly rigorous doctrine.

I loved my Zen, it took many a drop and kept going. The fact it's native organization software was essentially MS File Explorer (as opposed to downloading iTunes and dealing with all that) made it a wonder to work with. And never forget... THE SMELL OF THE PORT