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Dani Solà

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Interested in people, AI transformation, sustainability, and all things data.

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Epoch AI @epochai.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How do Chinese AI firms make money? In a new report, Cheryl Wu and Anson Ho identify five revenue sources and analyze how much each contributes. 🧵
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Tom Aarsen @tomaarsen.com · 06/10/2026
🤗 Google Deepmind is back with EmbeddingGemma 2, which maps text (including code), images, video & audio into one shared 768-dimensional embedding space. 740M total parameters, 100+ languages, Apache 2.0 & Sentence Transformers support. Thread with highlights 🧵
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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 26/08/2026
.@ducklabs.com is joining Amazon Web Services (AWS), expected to be effective by early Sept. This move gives DuckLabs the resources and reach to bring #DuckDB, DuckLake, and the Quack protocol to many more developers and orgs – while keeping our commitment to OSS Read the full announcement here:
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DuckLabs to Join AWS, Projects to Remain Open Source
DuckLabs provides services around the DuckDB in-process OLAP data management system directly from its main developers.
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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
All four books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use: - Bayesian Workflow at avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... Links to other three books are in the quoted post 👇 (too many books to fit in one post!)
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Bayesian Workflow book: Website – Bayesian Workflow book
Website for the Bayesian Workflow book by Gelman, Vehtari, McElreath, et al. — case studies, code, and exercises in R and Stan.
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Dani Solà @dani-sola.com · 18/07/2026
Such a great episode to understand the present and future of business analytics #analytics #ai #semantic #agents roundup.getdbt.com/p/the-scarce...
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The scarce resource is consensus (Ian Macomber)
When building data artifacts is fast and cheap, the scarce resource is company-wide consensus. Ramp's Ian Macomber returns to talk about post-AI data teams.
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Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Not having any EU competitive labs (plural intended) is about to get very painful.
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Dani Solà @dani-sola.com · 13/06/2026
Important and very timely manifest europe2031.ai/summary/?trk...
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Summary — Europe 2031
A short summary of the Europe 2031 scenario: where the continent is headed on AI, and what can still change course.
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 12/04/2026
I substacked I really like this one. It's a less technical piece on agent teams, and generally a bit about my workflow these days. I have a technical piece coming on my own blog soon that's sort of related. Enjoy! substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Productivity Is Real. The Scaling Isn't.
What running an AI agent team taught me about why organizations can't do what one person can.
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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 18/03/2026
This is another great read. Beautifully done, too. www.terrygodier.com/the-last-qui...
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The Last Quiet Thing
Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Solar does not care about the Strait of Hormuz. Oil flows through chokepoints. Solar follows a learning curve. Great piece @azeem.bsky.social www.exponentialview.co/p/solar-supe...
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🔮 No strait, no problem – Solar supercycle and the end of chokepoint geopolitics
While politics is powerful, the laws of physics will always win
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dax @thdxr.com · 10/03/2026
sent this to the team today everything great comes from being able to delay gratification for as long as possible and it feels like we're collectively losing our ability to do that
Image from X
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Scotty Cameron @cdnecon.ca · 25/02/2026
Dan Davies had the definitive Citrini response btw. Possibly one or two days before Citrini. backofmind.substack.com/p/finally-we...
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finally we have created the silver bullet
from Fred Brooks' classic essay "No Silver Bullets"
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Gus @gusthema.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
if bluesky was a short film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEVl... (very good short!!!)
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That's AI (2026) - Short Film
YouTube video by maximise
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Gaël Varoquaux @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🎉 Announcing TabICLv2: State-of-the art Table Foundation Model, fast and open source A breakthrough for tabular ML: better prediction and faster runtime than alternatives, work by Jingang Qu, David Holzmüller @dholzmueller.bsky.social , Marine Le Morvan, and myself 👇
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Dani Solà @dani-sola.com · 08/02/2026
Lots of insightful observations in this post. An important one is that IDEs need to change dramatically, given that we'll spend most of the time reviewing AI-written code.
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Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
It took me weeks, but finally it's there: an overlong blogpost on synthetic pretraining. vintagedata.org/blog/posts/s...
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Roland Paris @rolandparis.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is one of the sharpest analyses of international affairs that I've heard from a Canadian leader - or any national leader - in a long time. And I suspect he wrote the main bits himself. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
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The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Why Nvidia bought Groq for $20 Billion? medium.com/the-low-end-...
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Groq’s Deterministic Architecture is Rewriting the Physics of AI Inference
How Nvidia Learned to Stop Worrying and Acquired Groq
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Dani Solà @dani-sola.com · 29/12/2025
Highly interesting podcast on robust causal inference. Richard Hahn is an expert and a great communicator!
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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
ignore the title about caching, this is the best explanation of how LLMs work, period
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Prompt caching: 10x cheaper LLM tokens, but how? | ngrok blog
A far more detailed explanation of prompt caching than anyone asked for.
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Aria Desires @gankra.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
so pumped for the ty beta to finally be here, we did so much great work it rules! astral.sh/blog/ty
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ty: An extremely fast Python type checker and language server
ty is an extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust, and designed as an alternative to mypy, Pyright, and Pylance.
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 17/11/2025
How to Sell Data Modeling - good stuff from @joereis.bsky.social practicaldatamodeling.substack.com/p/how-to-sel...
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How to Sell Data Modeling
Making the Invisible Visible
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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 08/11/2025
⏰ Last chance to register for #CDSM2025! Don't miss your chance to join us Nov 12–13 for two days of talks & debates at the intersection of causality, data science & AI. 💻 Online | 🎟️ Free 👉 causalscience.org
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 02/09/2025
If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty crap about my small business. It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI. Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk
A selection of illustrations and commissions including an album cover design of a vintage radio, a book cover design with an illustration of George Harrison, architecture illustrations, a Listening Party turntable design, a music pattern design and a photo of me wearing glasses.
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Gaël Varoquaux @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Our didactic review on machine learning for causal inference, now open access: • identifiability (theory of when the data can answer a causal question) • machine-learning estimators • study design (asking well-framed questions + loopholes, eg with timewise data) www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 03/08/2025
Deep Agents this is a great 10 min video that’s absolutely worth your time Deep Agent = planning tool (TODO lists) + subagents + filesystem + long detailed system prompt seems like a deconstruction of why Claude Code works so well www.youtube.com/watch?v=433S...
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What are Deep Agents?
YouTube video by LangChain
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Dani Solà @dani-sola.com · 19/07/2025
Recommended watch. Although the war is not as often in the news any more, help is as important as ever. And we can all have a direct impact on defending democracy.
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 22/06/2025
I like this take by @kentbeck.com on how AI-assisted programming changes the balance of which skills are most important From this interview with @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/tdd-ai-age...
So you can think really big thoughts and the leverage of having those big thoughts has just suddenly expanded enormously. I had this tweet two years ago where I said "90% of my skills just went to zero dollars and 10% of my skills just went up 1000x". And this is exactly what I'm talking about - having a vision, being able to set milestones towards that vision, keeping track of a design to maintain or control the levels of complexity as you go forward. Those are hugely leveraged skills now compared to knowing where to put the amperands and the stars and the brackets in Rust.
— Kent Beck, interview with Gergely Orosz
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
No signs of an end to rapid gains in AI ability at ever-decreasing costs, yet I did my best to update my chart to take into account the price drop in o3 & new models released by Google GPT-4 was released 2.25 ago, so its worth noting the trend when considering the future of AI capabilities & cost
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Jack Vanlightly @vanlightly.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
How to reliably distribute work across microservices, stream processors, durable execution, event-driven, orchestration and now AI agents? Coordinated Progress is a 4 part series that explores the common structure behind reliable distributed systems. jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2025/6/...
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Coordinated Progress – Part 1 – Seeing the System: The Graph — Jack Vanlightly
At some point, we’ve all sat in an architecture meeting where someone asks, “ Should this be an event? An RPC? A queue? ”, or “ How do we tie this process together across our microservices? Should it ...
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Dani Solà @dani-sola.com · 13/05/2025
I tested ChatGPT, Claude, and Mistral on a multimodal problem about a washing machine. ChatGPT emerged the winner. #ai #chatgpt #claude #mistral
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Charlie Marsh @crmarsh.com · 13/05/2025
Today, we’re announcing the preview release of ty, an extremely fast type checker and language server for Python, written in Rust. In early testing, it's 10x, 50x, even 100x faster than existing type checkers. (We've seen >600x speed-ups over Mypy in some real-world projects.)
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Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
New blogpost: "Training as we know it might end". It was originally a panorama of the new methods of synthetic generation but the stakes are now much higher and I openly wonder if model training is not soon going to change forever. vintagedata.org/blog/posts/t...
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Sebastian Röhl @roehl.dev · 19/04/2025
Wow, that's an insanely cool website: animejs.com/
animejs.com
Anime.js | JavaScript Animation Engine
A fast and versatile JavaScript animation library
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Rob Hyndman @robjhyndman.com · 11/04/2025
A new Python edition of "Forecasting: Principles and Practice" is now available online at otexts.com/fpppy/. Thanks to @azulgarza.bsky.social, Cristian Challu, Max Mergenthaler, Kin Olivares & Nixtla for making this happen. #forecasting #python
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Forecasting: Principles and Practice, the Pythonic Way
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Joy Gao @joygao.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Interesting read on ClickHouse’s query condition cache (not a query result cache) — efficient indices built on the fly to reduce unnecessary full table scans for repeated queries. clickhouse.com/blog/introdu...
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Introducing the query condition cache
Repeated queries are everywhere—in dashboards, alerts, observability, and more. Learn how ClickHouse now skips redundant work by caching filter results per granule.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
So it looks like there's a third scaling law: you can make models better by (1) training them with more compute, by (2) having them "think" for longer about an answer, or by (now 3) generating large numbers of answers in parallel & picking good ones Both 2 & 3 seem to have lots of low-hanging fruit
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Eric Colson @ecolson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Operationalizing Machine Learning: An Interview Study by @joehellerstein.bsky.social, @adityagp.bsky.social, et al. Particularly love the part on "Retrofitting Explanations". #MachineLearning #MLOps #Datascience. arxiv.org/pdf/2209.09125
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
This is a pretty cool resource for applied ML: a list of "case studies" sourced from different companies describing problems they face and the methods they've tried to solve them. Anyone know of something like this specific to geospatial/remote sensing data problems? #MLsky #CCAI #GISchat
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Evidently AI - ML and LLM system design: 500 case studies
How do top companies apply AI? A database of 500 case studies from 100+ companies with practical ML use cases, LLM applications, and learnings from designing ML and LLM systems.
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
We are continuing with our series of posts on some non-trivial use cases for XGBoost. In this latest posts we talk about using Shapley *interaction* values for feature engineering. 1/2
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Dani Solà @dani-sola.com · 20/02/2025
Just published a post about building smart services at CLARK. A pragmatic approach that worked very well for us, going from heuristics to ML. Thoughts and feedback welcome! #datasky #data #databs medium.com/clark-engine...
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A Blueprint for Smart Services
In today’s fast-paced world, creating intelligent services that adapt and improve over time is crucial for business success. This post…
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19/01/2025
Despite patriarchy's persistence, growing numbers of men believe they have it worse off than women. And, new research shows this "male victimhood" ideology is most common among men who aren't facing hardship. Which means what they're really feeling is status loss. 1/ www.psypost.org/male-victimh...
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Male victimhood ideology driven by perceived status loss, not economic hardship, among Korean men
Research published in Sex Roles suggests that male victimhood ideology among South Korean men is driven more by perceived socioeconomic status decline rather than objective economic hardship.
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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
DeepSeek-R1! ⚡ Performance on par with OpenAI-o1 📖 Fully open-weight model & technical report 🏆 MIT licensed: Distill & commercialize freely! 🌐 Website & API are live now! Demo: chat.deepseek.com Models: huggingface.co/deepseek-ai
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Chris @chris.blue · 13/01/2025
First post of the year! @andypavlo.bsky.social got me thinking about why Confluent didn't build WarpStream. My conclusion: legacy infrastructure companies are going to have a tough time against cloud native, AI-enabled, post-ZIRP competitors.
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Infrastructure Vendors Are in a Tough Spot
Cloud native, AI-enabled, post-ZIRP companies are the new apex predator.
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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 05/01/2025
The MemoryDB paper shows the power of separating responsibilities through clever composition. I think this DB frontend/execution plus a distributed transaction log pattern can be promising for creating serverless variants of many popular databases. E.g., Aurora adopts a similar decoupling approach.
Screenshot of the first page of the paper "Amazon MemoryDB: A Fast and Durable Memory-First Cloud Database". https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3626246.3653380
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Alex Miller @alexmillerdb.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
OLTP Through the Looking Glass 16 Years Later: Communication is the New Bottleneck www.cs.cit.tum.de/fi...
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Dani Solà @dani-sola.com · 05/12/2024
I love dbt, but sdf.com looks very promising: faster runtime, improved reports, column-level lineage, etc. Does anyone have experience running it in production? #databs #datasky
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SDF Labs | Data Runs Better on SDF
SDF is the next generation transformation layer and best developer platform for data. A compiler and execution engine designed to improve the data engineering experience, with compile time guarantees ...
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Nikhil Benesch @benesch.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
S3 (Iceberg) Tables is everything I dreamt of, and more. I blogged some long-form thoughts: meltware.com/2024/12/04/s... I think we're about to see an explosion of data tools (@materialize.com, @clickhouse.com, @duckdb.org, et al.) learn to write Iceberg tables via S3 table buckets. #databs
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A First Look at S3 (Iceberg) Tables
AWS announced S3 Tables today, which brings native support for Apache Iceberg to S3. It’s hard to overstate how exciting this is for the data analytics ecosystem. This post is a quick rundown of my th...
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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 30/11/2024
Seems like a safe bet that object storage as a foundation of data systems architecture is here to stay blog.colinbreck.com/predicting-t...
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Predicting the Future of Distributed Systems
There are significant changes happening in distributed systems.
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Dr. Verónica Espinoza @verukita1.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
📕A Portable Introduction to Data Analysis (open access) 2024. By Michael Bulmer 👉(uq.pressbooks.pub/portable-int...) #Statistics #Datavisualization #MachineLearning #DataScience #Python #rstudio #PhD #bioinformatics #Rstudio #neuroscience #postdoc #research #stats #AI
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