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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 17/06/2026

If the WiFi holds up today at Data AI summit I’m going to try doing a code review stream with Devin Petersohn where we walk through the new transpilation PR at 1pm pacific. If your around in person feel free to come say hi! I’ll be wearing my dragon dress with my sports coat

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 21/04/2026

Stoked the new @frame.work 13 is going to be Ubuntu certified. #lazyholden :) “everything keeps working”

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 04/03/2026

New toy! I’m going to try and set it up with Moonshine later this week :)

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 02/02/2026

Hey London friends have nothing to do on a Monday night? I’ll be giving a talk about some of the cool AI stuff you can do with Apache Spark, including appealing health insurance denials, and the infra behind it :) Come say hi! luma.com/e3bw395h

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 01/02/2026

The KFK bar is not associated with the Kafka project, but the queue was long when I looked last night so maybe they should be….

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 31/01/2026

Hanging at FOSDEM if you want to chat about Apache Spark or fighting health insurance with AI come find me :)

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 30/01/2026

Stickers for the Icerberg meetup :) luma.com/yx3lhqu9

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 09/01/2026

Today in Holden and the magic smoke I’m surprised these light still worked…

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 25/12/2025

Oof one of @fightpaperwork.bsky.social’s NV jetsons gave up the ghost (had this screen then got really really hot). Anyone got a lead on cheap RK1s?

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 03/11/2025

Finishing up my slides for @smalldatasf in the @McDonalds parking lot with a Frappé. The free WiFi is so so but I needed to get out of the house :) P.S. want to hear about when not to use Spark? Check out my session this Wednesday ❤️

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 11/02/2025

I had a dream where I woke up in a country with affordable medical coverage. Then I actually woke up and got back to work on FHI :p Also check out our new logo :)

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 16/01/2025

Listening to pink pony club on @SFBART on my way to talk to VCs for Fight Health Insurance :) (not pictured: my coffee.)

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 15/01/2025

Came out of morning exercise this morning to the scene of a crash at 26th and Valencia :(

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 29/12/2024

Dinner… took a turn. Bean cookie!

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 07/12/2024

Nothing like going viral while on a date and checking on the server stats wearing a sparkly red dress & motorcycle jacket :) — www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldK...

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 06/12/2024

Jazzercise with Mr Pickles

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 18/04/2024

Nothing like google drive calling me out with saying that I frequently open the DataFrame/Dataset chapter around this time of day (grinding on High Performance Spark 2e) :) :p

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 11/11/2023

Peak Bay Area: training a model over starlink.

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 09/10/2023

Don’t worry coiled made it to the final version :)

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 27/09/2023

Decorations for the holiday season. Skeleton on 🛵

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 26/09/2023

Come say hi if you see me at #current23 love to chat with folks about @ApacheSpark , @ApacheIceberg , @dask_dev or @raydistributed 😊 #leathertuesday

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 28/07/2023

New* invention: Maple Icecream Coffee (*did not search google)

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 26/07/2023

Saw Barbie movie now I’m so tired and it’s before 10 😛

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 06/07/2023

Getting close to finishing the QCs on “Scaling Python with Dask”, you can tell by how low I am on toner 😛

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 04/07/2023

We are back home, without our bags of course, but the professor is very happy.

Holden and Carolyn sitting outside the airport

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 02/07/2023

The door person at the club ( Schwuz ) we went to on Friday did the best intro speech for a queer club I’ve heard and did a great job of setting the vibe (and folks inside were lovely too just the intro speech was markedly different than I’m used to) ❤️😊

Holden and Carolyn eating ice cream bars in a club.

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 09/06/2023

Scala Center Folks at the Scala meetup in Oakland talking about scala-cli

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 03/05/2023

Come join me on stream writing ASF Spark migration rules :) twitch.tv/holdenkarau

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Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com · 27/04/2023

If your PyData Seattle come join me at 1:30 (really soon) for Distributed Computing 4 Kids 😊 Spark focused but with some Ray/Dask shout outs :)

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