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The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: The craft of building reliable solutions with LLMsXConf APAC 2025 | Singapore2025-10-31
LLM prototypes often fail on real data because models are non‑deterministic, can’t count, and have short corruptible memory; reliability requires pruning…
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A quack of all trades: DuckDB, a versatile analytical database to keep in your toolkitDataEngBytes Melbourne 20242024-10-01
DuckDB is a fast in‑process analytical SQL engine that reads nested CSV/Parquet from S3 or local disk, does projection pushdown and zone‑map skipping, and…
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Data Poker not Data Chess - thinking in Bets for Data TeamsDataEngBytes 20222022-09-27
Argues that strategic data choices are bets, not chess moves, and proposes Spotify’s DIBBs process (Data → Insight → Belief → Bet) as a practical method. Gives…
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Metrics-driven Data ArchitecturesDataEngBytes 20212021-10-10
Argues that metric sprawl causes rework and bad decisions and that treating metrics as first-class, versioned artifacts fixes it. Surveys concrete tooling: dbt…
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Saturday PM Lightning TalksPyCon AU 20172017-08-03
Seven-minute rapid-fire demos cover working microPython on FPGA (real hardware and QEMU, $50 boards), a national course with 10,000 students need tutors, a…
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