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

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.

Introducing Human ETL. techcrunch.com/2024/12/01/a...

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

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

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...

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?

Does anyone else’s Tupperware lids mysteriously disappear?

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.

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...

How does one construct these starter packs?

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!

Two Canadian teams in the second round of the Stanley Cup… Is it too soon to hope? To dream?

There is no joy like giving someone just the right gift.

Figured I’d start with a blue sky from today :-)