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1) my top-level takeaways on DeepSeek's smallpond: a distributed data processing framework used for training LLMs #databs

One of my favorite things we do on the DX team is when there's a differing viewpoint we each lay out our level of conviction. Often, but not always the lower conviction person will cede to the higher conviction - great sign of a high trust team.

The Three Levels of SQL Comprehension: What they are and why you need to know about them | dbt Developer Blog Parsers, compilers, executors, oh my! What it means when we talk about 'understanding SQL'.

Must read new post from @joellab.es docs.getdbt.com/blog/the-lev...

It's blazing fast!

Thinking of you my friend

dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs to accelerate the dbt developer experience | dbt Labs New tech will significantly improve performance, enhance developer ergonomics, and bring rich new metadata to dbt.

Major industry news today: dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs

www.getdbt.com/blog/dbt-lab...

This is, in my opinion, a complete game changer for dbt.

dbt Labs has acquired SDF Labs! Early reviews:

dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs to accelerate the dbt developer experience | dbt Labs New tech will significantly improve performance, enhance developer ergonomics, and bring rich new metadata to dbt.

Today, we’re announcing that dbt Labs has acquired SDF Labs. This a monumental day for dbt Labs and the entire dbt Community Thread on what that means 🧵

www.getdbt.com/blog/dbt-lab...

I wish that looks great

Big things cooking at the team meeting today

Karaoke / singalongs Playlist · Jason Ganz · 546 items · 13 saves

My contribution: My world famous Karaoke playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/6ss...

It's my birthday! My request - share a song, album or playlist that you love for me to listen to.

My Airbnb has a smart fridge with a memo feature (?) and I couldn’t help myself

This just in - O1 preview coming out in favor of the Oxford Comma. Check the Analytics Engineering Roundup tomorrow to see how the proofreading went and catch some great posts from @faithebear.bsky.social, @rovingrob.bsky.social and more.

Realizing it's a huge miss that I haven't started a newsletter called dbt Blabs yet

Yes!!

Joel you are not going to believe this but he’s been here the whole time

Even got sauce for it

Full house at the NYC dbt Meetup tonight

The findings here based on an RCT:
- Steep increase (39%)! in patent filings and the AI generated ideas rates as more creative
- Gains largely come from the top decile of scientists (81!)

aidantr.github.io/files/AI_inn...

This paper is really worth reading. Shakes up two common tropes that we've been hearing about how AI impacts work:
- That AI is useful for rote tasks but not novel or creative work
- That AI flattens the curve between high and low performers

Test smarter not harder: add the right tests to your dbt project | dbt Developer Blog Testing your data should drive action, not accumulate alerts. We synthesized countless customer experiences to build a repeatable testing framework.

yes i know it's vendor content but i'm really proud of this blog and worked for many weeks on it, please enjoy and lmk thoughts: docs.getdbt.com/blog/test-sm...

early days still for #iceberg, but you can't ignore a PR that shows me the end of the table format wars is nigh.

Delta-only deletion vectors to land in v3 spec

Incredible to see SWEs from DBRX, SNOW, GCP, and more chime in.

Nature is healing. Iceberg is real! #databs
github.com/apache/icebe...

Aaaand this was the whole response

New record

“I’ve never been part of the Jinja haters league. I’m not part of the Jinja defender squad, but I’m also not part of the Jinja haters league” @joellab.es

Starting off the offsite with my most important piece of thought technology - the mood meter

[guy who used an LLM to write his wedding vow but accidentally used Golden Gate Claude]

“You rolled into my life like the fog rolling into the San Francisco Bay

Interesting bit on how people got mad at the news feed for making it easier to access already public information. 10% of Facebook users joined a group saying to get rid of the News Feed!

Some interesting parallels to LLMs reducing barriers to access already public information

Fun fact - the Facebook News Feed was originally a batch job that ran every 6 hours

The optimal experience while flying is watching Aquaman 2 with no sound while listening to the new episode of Acquired podcast