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Jan 14
Going to start posting again. Too much fun to build stuff and see what people are creating right now.
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Jun 2
Extension update: you can now stream OpenTelemetry metrics, logs and traces to @ApacheIceberg, DuckLake, Parquet or, uh, maybe Google Sheets inside a @duckdb process.
clay.fyi/blog/duckdb-is-all-…
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Apr 11
AWS just shipped native OpenTelemetry metrics support in CloudWatch. This one got buried under the S3 Files announcement, but it deserves more attention!
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Mar 23
.@kmad's post re: RLM Dataframes @isaacbmiller1's talk at dSPY SF sent me down a rabbit hole today: querying otel logs from R2 data catalog ... works great. Bonus: have Claude Desktop visualize the results.
github.com/smithclay/otel-rl…
Mar 22
What if we combined RLMs with DataFrames?
Recursive language models by @a1zhang and @lateinteraction are a promising new direction for LLMs...
... but initially only operate on strings. The REPL they use is capable of much more than that.
By combining RLMs, DSPy, and DataFrame support you can do things like achieve ~87% on DABench in 15 lines of code, largely by "getting out of the way" of the model.
The approach is fairly simple:
- Import the required libraries into the REPL sandbox for your type, in this case pandas and pyarrow for efficiency
- Define a serialization approach to get the data from host to sandbox
- Define the Output fields you want
- Let the model loose in the REPL; it will iteratively explore and analyze the data until it's ready to return the response
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Mar 12
observability friends: claude now can natively make **really good** instant monitoring dashboards natively in the app from pretty much any API using the visualization/chart support that launched today.
... just tell it what you want too see, the controls/layout you want, and it works (with analysis/commentary) 🥹
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Mar 12
Spoiler: this is a bigger deal than charts and diagrams.
Claude can now build interactive charts and diagrams, directly in the chat.
Available today in beta on all plans, including free.
Try it out: claude.ai
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Feb 18
Like a lot of people, been playing with RLMs in @DSPyOSS. Used it to compose electronic music in @Ableton and have to say it sometimes creates some bangers.
Github (with soundcloud link lol) @ github.com/smithclay/bergain
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Feb 18
Was a good way to get more familiar with the pattern, think RLMs have potential for more this sort of open-ended creative work. Also really good at navigating extremely complex software with hundreds or APIs (and instruments/music choices). Kudos to @lateinteraction and @a1zhang
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Feb 7
RLM is a way for a couple of guys in their 30s to kind of meet up, discuss some new ideas, and frankly have a bit of fun
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Feb 5
Crying tears of product manager joy with the @claudeai for PowerPoint plugin released today.
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Jan 30
DuckDB's Hannes Mühleisen does not blog a lot, but his conference talks and podcast appearances are OFTEN spicy and entertaining. I took the liberty of transcribing and summarizing 37 of them for your enjoyment. Welcome to Spicy Takes
hannes.spicytakes.org/
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Jan 27
Ducklings was updated to the latest @duckdb v1.4.4 - Run DuckDB on @Cloudflare Workers with R2 support
github.com/tobilg/ducklings
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Jan 16
In 2026: your data lake is thirsting for your observability data.
snowflake.com/en/news/press-…
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16 Mar 2023
We hereby DENOUNCE @TheEmperorBot and any attempt to recreate Our pronouncements with an algorithmic and generative "artificial intelligence". If you see the creator of this bot tell him to report to jail at once!
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12 Mar 2023
“Intense excitement here in consequence of the bank failures in San Francisco. Men have seemed to be holding their breath as if waiting and watching to see what next would come.” (1855)
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12 Mar 2023
Source: San Francisco, 1846-1856: from Hamlet to City. Robert Lotchin
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29 Oct 2022
didn’t feel like Halloween until I experienced the spooky vibes of filing an expense report using Concur
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