Angel investor in data+ai platforms, startup founder. Loves Data, Coffee, and Spy Thrillers. Find me on BlueSky.
Berlin and Kyiv
Joined February 2009
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AI coding assistants π€ like Cursor are not the 10x productivity boosters for data engineers and not their replacements, as some talking heads claim. But they can be 10x multipliers for another group of folks - the π customers of π· data engineers!
tower.dev/blog/ai-auto-coderβ¦
How do you run π Python apps on Iceberg tables without going bonkers settings up infrastructure βοΈ
That's how:
1οΈβ£ Sign up for Tower.dev
2οΈβ£ Take your Python script and turn it into a Tower app
3οΈβ£ Run this app on Tower
tower.dev/blog/how-tower-enaβ¦
Take a read of this 1οΈβ£ 2οΈβ£ 3οΈβ£ step-by-step guide for setting up an Iceberg catalog using Snowflake Open Catalog.
ποΈ Tomorrow's post will be about using π§Έ Polars & π PyArrow to write/query an open β΄οΈ lakehouse using the said Iceberg catalog!
tower.dev/blog/how-to-setup-β¦
I am building an open lakehouse with S3 and Python and looked at managed and unmanaged Iceberg catalogs: βοΈ Snowflake βοΈ Polaris π₯ Gravitino π£ββοΈ Lakekeeper π€ Unity π Glue π¦ Dremio & Nessie π Hive.
Verdict: Snowflake Open Catalog won (this time)
tower.dev/blog/picking-snowfβ¦
The scandal at Kaggle: 5 hard-won lessons from a brutal ML competition datancoff.ee/2024/07/the-scaβ¦ β at Berlin, Germany
Is there a better way to get best results from AI models than buying a bigger and meaner AI model? Some say the answer is "Compound AI Systems"? What do you say?
datancoff.ee/2024/04/compounβ¦
β₯οΈ Czechia β at Berlin, Germany
Thank you, Europe. We will win together. β at San Francisco, CA
The European Council has decided to open accession negotiations with Ukraine & Moldova.
#EUCO granted candidate status to Georgia. And the EU will open negotiations with Bosnia and Herzegovina once the necessary degree of compliance with the membership criteria is reached and has invited the commission to report by March with a view to taking such a decision.
A clear signal of hope for their people and for our continent.
Change streams for the win! β at Berlin, Germany
Hey @thetinot i found out who you were replaced with β at Berlin, Germany
Today I got a call inviting me to consider a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to become the interim CEO of @OpenAI. After consulting with my family and reflecting on it for just a few seconds, I accepted. It was crazy. They literally called me and were like "who is this?" And I was like "ha ha, what?" And then they gave me the job and hung up. I took the gig because, due to the birth of my triplets this morning (true story), I need all the cash I can get. Seriously. I'm fucked for money. All three of these kids expect to go to private school and one of them is named Elliot so you know he can't be poor. Anywhoo, I took this job because I have absolutely no idea what AI does. I dont even know where our offices are. My plans are to drive through the wall of an Apple store and start giving orders to the first nerd I can smell. I told the board all of this. They know what I'm about. They also know that I'm certifiably insane, casually (CASUALLY!!) smoke meth and don't know what the GPT stands for in that Chatbot Siri thing we have. When they heard this, the board gave me a raise and some free meth. What a deal! Ultimately, I plan to step down this evening. Thanks, all.
From the mouth of the founder of @duckdb Hannes : "Processes are the best containers. But someone needs to solve loading libraries."
