@liss.bsky.social ever seen this issue on iOS? Haven’t been able to re-download callsheet for months!
Boris
@boris.bsky.social
Founder @getcensus.com with the quixotic goal of having every app & every workflow in a company run on the right data.
Alright fellow SQL nerds... Which of these 6 common table expressions are valid?
Bay Area life means you see your friends in New York more often than the ones in the Peninsula.
Has anyone created a standard format for structured *input* into LLMs? I'm thinking of a parseable json or markdown file that includes sections like examples, variables, system prompt, user prompt.
been working on a site & repo to test apache iceberg (similar to caniuse.com). it executes a basic test by standing up combos of catalog, storage, and query engine. anyone want to contribute? sneak peek here: iceberg.fyi
Iceberg FYI
iceberg.fyi
Fred Brooks is still underrated. I'm pretty sure people just *say* they've read Mythical Man-Month but often haven't.
I judge agency presentations by how many words on a slide are specific to my company. Shockingly low sometimes!
What is the word for when you’re debugging a data issue, you find one of the causes but it *increases* the scale of the discrepancy? 😂
I know we all expect it but it’s wild to watch folks outside of tech transition from using the verb “Google” to the verb “ChatGPT” in regular conversation.
Fun fact, Apple has the tiniest lobbying team in Washington. A fraction of the size of companies like Amazon, Meta, and Google. Has anyone studied or written about this?
tfw you stay home for a delivery and still somehow miss it because you had headphones on during a meeting.
Our team has been playing Timeguessr at our weekly all hands and it's pretty fun. We had to retire Geoguessr because one of our teammates utterly dominated it. Any other games we can try? TimeGuessr #540 43,651/50,000 🌎🟩🟩🟨 📅🟩🟩⬛ 🌎🟩🟩🟨 📅🟩🟨⬛ 🌎⬛️⬛️⬛️ 📅🟩🟩🟨 🌎🟩🟩🟨 📅🟩🟩🟨 🌎🟩🟩🟩 📅🟩🟩⬛ timeguessr.com
TimeGuessr
TimeGuessr - the game that tests both your geography and history knowledge. Guess the right time and location of a historical photo.
timeguessr.com
How long before AI companies try to use the DMCA to block publishing their internal prompts?
Would anyone use Google Slides if the collaboration features were removed? It's no surprise that folks like Canva & Figma feel like competing here – all the best presentation tools are single-player. Unbiased side plug: I think IA Presenter has a neat take.
it's obviously not fun but i love the energy of a late night devops incident huddle
Is anyone using Snowflake Cortex? Today's announcement makes it more compelling but my back of the envelope math is that it's between 4 to 20x the cost of using a generic Llama provider. Feels like a high cost for keeping compute inside their walls no?
Is there a German word for the combination of pride & sadness of having developed skills you don't love? (e.g. making slides)
Starting to wonder if we should expand Rails rendering to include render_md to go along with render_json. The whole world is converting HTML back to Markdown so may as well share the right thing directly right? Related: llmstxt.org Thoughts? @chris.blue @simonwillison.net
The /llms.txt file – llms-txt
A proposal to standardise on using an /llms.txt file to provide information to help LLMs use a website at inference time.
llmstxt.org
As everyone feels the emotional rush of building a following here, useful to revisit Alex Zhu's brilliant "New World" analogy to explain the rise of TikTok. The key is social mobility. In established platforms like Twitter & Insta (ie. Europe), the social class system is already stabilized.
We've been automating a lot of RevOps via LLM enrichments on our data (e.g. sentiment analysis, fit scoring for sales, account research for outbount, etc). We've shared these prompts in docs/blog but feels like it should live in an open repo with contributions? www.getcensus.com/blog/sentime...
Customer Sentiment Automation For Outbounding and Support
Discover how AI-powered message analysis transforms customer sentiment insights for support and sales teams, turning nuanced data into actionable strategies across channels.
getcensus.com
After years of using Raycast, I still feel like I'm at the low end of "intermediate" user. What's everyone's favorite Raycast extensions, shortcuts, quicklinks, workflows, etc?
Agree it’s essential to embrace. But what is it about the data community that makes it resistant? Developers are a lot more comfortable embracing this. One theory? Generally weak testing / review practices so it’s scarier to trust randomness.
Jeremiah Lowin@jlowin.dev · 2y agoI’m old enough to remember when data twitter got really really angry at the idea that AI would intersect their work. Maybe #databs is ready for real talk? Anthony Goldbloom nails it here with evidence, not hype: blog.sumble.com/the-overlook...
What’s the right follow-up question to ask this candidate about their extra-curriculars?
Homomorphic encryption always felt like something that would forever be for the distant future. Apple has found a great way to put it in practice here! Huge. machinelearning.apple.com/research/hom...
Combining Machine Learning and Homomorphic Encryption in the Apple Ecosystem
At Apple, we believe privacy is a fundamental human right. Our work to protect user privacy is informed by a set of privacy principles, and…
machinelearning.apple.com
Alright looks like I should switch to a proper user domain with the new arrivals!
Kudos to the London buses for having USB in every seat though I guess it’s unfortunate that they’re tied to USB-A now 😂
TIL that aoc is a proper Star Trek nerd. I’ll always be a Picard fan but I’ve argued at a con that Janeway had the hardest job of all the captains. Oh and SNW’s Pike is giving all of them a legit run for their money!
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@aoc.bsky.social · 3y agoJaneway. I grew up on TNG, TOS,& VOY, but the strong women characters on Voyager changed my life as a kid. I don’t know if I’d be in Congress if that show wasn’t on TV. My dad was a huge Star Trek/Roddenberry fan & always talked about its social & political history. I could go on forever about ST 🪐