bobbruno

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by bobbruno 4y ago
Hypothetically, if I wanted to learn how to code by studying open source examples on GitHub, should I have to go ask permission of each rightsholder to learn from their code? I agree that, if Copilot is based on a model that overfits to out
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by bobbruno 4y ago
If they can actually link output to specific input, the lawsuit has merit and more, GPT-3 is a lie. A neural network is supposed to learn how things work, not memorize a large number of examples and spit them out verbatim - or keep connecti
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by bobbruno 4y ago
Let me see if I can at least justify some of these things: - SQL became the de facto standard for data manipulation a few decades ago, and I’m still to see a worthy contender. While the language itself shows its age, the concept of it being
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by bobbruno 4y ago
I’ve been working in this field for 28 years, and it can be quite confusing for a newcomer. Let me see if I can help. First, the name Data Warehouse is overloaded. It can refer to the entire architecture (often called “Data Warehousing arch
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by bobbruno 4y ago
Very thorough answer on the DW and Data Lake points. On the Lakehouse, though, as I wrote above, it’s not just the data storage format (Delta, Iceberg, whatever). The storage is important, because it creates the possibility of using cloud s
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by bobbruno 4y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Databricks. With that out of the way, the Data Lakehouse name has a Marketing motivation, but the concept is “let’s not have a DW and a Lake as separate structures based on different technical stacks - let’s have one
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by bobbruno 4y ago
Did you mind checking the availability of people with lisp skills vs most other languages used in research and DS? Or the availability of libraries and pace of evolution? If your solution is to teach lisp massively and have everyone just bu
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by bobbruno 4y ago
Have you considered that the notebook is an evolution of a repl, with improved visualization and feedback, for for analysis-heavy work? The problem starts when notebooks are used for development and production.
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by bobbruno 4y ago
You're thinking it the wrong way. Notebooks don't do well in software development, but they are extremely useful on exploratory data analysis and quick iteration when searching for a suitable modeling approach. These two tasks use