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Iceland Airwaves 2023 Retrieval Augmented Generation with SQL Large Language Model (LLM) systems like ChatGPT or Anthropic seem genuinely...

Why Kafka? Kafka, not the author, is a foundational tool that enables a real-time distributed data stack. It's scary to the technically...

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The Road Goes Ever On I've always loved both metal and classical music. The first classical album that captured my imagination was Peer...

Janelle Monae's "The Chase" I'm listening to Janelle Monáe's "The Chase" EP. It is an alter-ego backstory set in a dystopian future of...

As I'm building out my MYFlow pipeline, I'm looking for ML Models that are both interesting and valuable. Conformal Prediction is a hot...

The upside to a regular job is a regular paycheck! The downside is that it distracts me from all the interesting things I can solo as a...

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I'm in a principal role at my current company, and like every development team, it's easy to get lost in the constant noise of daily...

Interesting data scraping companies and tools. The internet is a wealth of data, and data scraping is a bit dodgy in terms of how you get...

Even seasoned architects have gaps in their understanding. After an interesting conversation with fellow data architects, I found a...

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On this Juneteenth, remember that the fight against racism keeps going. BLM. I'm not working today, thanks to the hard work of people...

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Wouldn't it be amazing if there were a mindfulness app to support mindfulness from the point of developers? It's challenging to go from...

The author completed a Coursera course on AI while waiting for his laundry. I spent the bulk of my career at a company called “Retail...