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Me too, though it feels just a grift.

This article is entirely AI generated, making this either a rather brilliant piece of meta commentary or just pure grift. Alas, my hopes are low.

A performant pythonic way to read and write data into Iceberg.

This is very interesting, clearly there's a major pain point here to be addressed, especially the delta between local pandas work and distributed [pyspark] work! Would love to test…

As the author, I think this is my favourite comment I've ever received. I won't even try to argue with you about my bias!

They were!

Author here. This is super interesting, and while I am mostly a lurker here welcome back?

This is very interesting thanks Shawn. I did email William Merrill to see his thoughts but didn't get a response yet.

They are librarians, just that it happens to be the library of Babel.

(Author here). I tried creating something similar in order to solve wordle etc, and the interesting part is that it is insufficient still. That's part of the mystery.

An excellent short story about an ASI getting super-aligned through four magic words, and its aftermath

It's quite literally not. After she wrote that it would be silly if you didn't even have discussions considering this. Actively working would require active efforts to make this ha…

In this instance, "Sam is trying to take over the Board on a flimsy basis" is an reasonable reason to remove him. Started leading discussions about whether she should be removed, i…

Fwiw I wrote right upfront that it's of course terrible. But the assumption was that now that we've acknowledged that we can also look at other aspects. I get the revulsion though,…

Yup, midjourney

You're right! Fixed :)

This is a good exposition of a normal dynamic in the public markets. I don't think it will be as dramatic in the private markets because spirals require liquidity and regular price…