Tim @sqlhawty

Founded @SqlinSix Data and research. I also teach a course on ETL. sqlinsix.gumroad.com/l/automatingetl Joined October 2015

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Tim @sqlhawty

14 hours ago

Them: "India doubled their precious metal purchases!" Actual situation: bank and jeweler inventory build-up before festivals (plus front-running higher taxes on imports). Context matters. kitco.com/news/article/2… $gold

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Tim @sqlhawty

3 days ago

The S&P 500 Index in August 1971 was 99.03; adjusted for inflation it was 786.36 $spy

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Mike Cornell @TXMikeC

a year ago

@mim_djo In Databricks, the AutoLoader and COPY INTO make this SUPER easy for any file, any frequency, etc. 3/

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Tim @sqlhawty

3 weeks ago

Bookmarking for myself "The devil is in the details" 😘

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Jared Lander @jaredlander

3 weeks ago

Was helping a client today with a 500 million row dataset. It took about 42 GB as a CSV & 7 GB as a parquet file. We needed a count of rows per ID. We tried Arrow but gave up after staring at the console for a few minutes. Switched to DuckDB & got an answer in less than a second.

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Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai

4 weeks ago

Hardware Memory is the choke point slowing down GenAI. ~2018–2022, transformer model size grew ~410× every 2 years, while memory per accelerator grew only about 2× every 2 years. And that mismatch shoves us into a “memory-limited” world. The "memory wall" is creating all the…

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Tim @sqlhawty

4 weeks ago

As I've warned in the past (I scrub posts, so limited time on this too): The S&P 500 will eventually fall below the price of gold. This can happen in a myriad of ways, but what is true is that gold is underpriced relative to the S&P 500. $spy $gld