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AI’s Electron.JS Moment?

The study provides an analysis of ML model energy usage on a state of the art nvidia chip: We ran al…

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Weeknote CW48 2023

I’ve missed a couple of weeknotes since the end of November and start of December has been a p…

Data Swamp

My dad has spent some of his retirement doing hobbyist machine learning projects. He heard the term …

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Medieval Buzzfeed – Debugging Dodgy Datetimes in Pandas and Parquet

I was recently attempting to cache the results of a long-running SQL query to a local parquet file u…

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Reply: How moving from AWS to Bare-Metal saved us 230,000$ /yr

Our transition from AWS to bare-metal infrastructure underscores the fact that while cloud services …