Flipping lower order bit

I love how every article about Analytics kept screaming "Raise your technical skills. Learn platform!" but the OG book from Kimball mentioned (in the first 20 page of the book): "Yeah no, you're hybrid DBA and MBA"

Unexplored Topic: Most startups (at least in Indonesia) currently take a Business-Market Fit-first approach, keeping all processes manual until they generate revenue, before committing precious resources (like engineering bandwidth) to properly productize their solutions.

Last post of the year! S3, Parquet, Iceberg, and @duckdb.org are a great way to get customers their data.

Book Club is happening - find all the details here: jennajordan.me/book-club/

#databs #datasky

The first book would have to be Data & Reality by Bill Kent (2nd ed of course).

After that there are many potential options but I’ve wanted to have a book club for Data & Reality for so long that it has to be the first one. We could call it the “Data Philosophizing” book club or something.

For my last class this semester, I tried to cram our Advanced Database course into one lecture. We cover the following database systems in 60min: youtu.be/fr5lIchF6pw
• Google Dremel / BigQuery
• Snowflake
• Amazon Redshift
• Yellowbrick
• Databricks Photon
• @duckdb.org
• TabDB

Fantastic opportunity for ppl in #mlsky #databs #stats etc to write their own perspectives on how machine learning and engineering have changed over the course of your careers (see original link in the thread), especially last 5 years. Would love to read all of these posts!

I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1

It's crazy to think that Chicago become the center of modern finance because their geographic advantage and .....cow?

What does analogy that fit into this case?

On top of my head: it's like knowing your local IKEA become 3 Michelin star restaurant in the future... because they can cook meatball

FYI, here's the entire code to create a dataset of every single bsky message in real time:

```
from atproto import *
def f(m): print(m.header, parse_subscribe_repos_message())
FirehoseSubscribeReposClient().start(f)
```

Woahh idk about this. Very useful

I recently shared some of my reflections on how to use probabilistic classifiers for optimal decision-making under uncertainty at @pydataparis.bsky.social 2024.

Here is the recording of the presentation:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gYn...

Interesting critique of the problems with peer review. Unfortunately it fails to offer a proposal for what might be better. I'm reminded of the old adage “democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” Likewise for peer review. www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-a...

Finished reading the book, last two chapters on the philosophical aspects of technology worship are great, and the material provides vivid conceptual clarity on bubble dynamics. However, overall, the book could have been much shorter.

I'm glad @hf.co is doing this. It brings down the barriers to allow more people to benefit from AI, rather than keeping it exclusively in the realm of deep pocketed giant companies.

AI can help open the gates, to allow regular people to do things they couldn't do before. (Which can be threatening!)

The number of banger quotes in 'Boom' by Byrne Hobart is staggering

Few of my favorites (a note to myself)

One thing I’ve learnt about The Practice is that it takes time for other controllable levers to show up — and sometimes you’re limited by how rich your understanding of your causal model of your process is.

This is limited by experience, instrumentation, and creativity.