Articles by jamesblonde
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Stephen Miller Asserts U.S. Has Right to Take Greenland (nytimes.com)

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The feature store powering real-time AI in Dropbox Dash (dropbox.tech)

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Open source could pop the AI bubble – and soon (ft.com)

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Europe's defence spending spree must fund domestic AI, official says (ft.com)

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How I Do Everything (pseudorandomgenerator.substack.com)

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The new hot job in AI: forward-deployed engineers (ft.com)

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How to reach 100M ops/sec with a REST API and Python on AWS (rondb.com)

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Firefly: Scalable, Ultra-Accurate Clock Synchronization for Datacenters (acm.org)

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Airbnb: Agent-in-the-Loop: Data Flywheel for LLM-Based Customer Support (arxiv.org)

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Peter Thiel's antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon (theguardian.com)

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Buy European: EU Commissions New Apply AI Strategy Launched (euractiv.com)

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EU pushes new AI strategy to reduce tech reliance on US and China (ft.com)

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Unsolved Problems in MLOps (acm.org)

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Hunt for life on Mars finds potential signs of biological processes (ft.com)

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ASML and Mistral agree €1.3B blockbuster European AI deal (ft.com)

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Microsoft Signs Nebius Cloud Deal Worth Up to $19.4B (bloomberg.com)

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Trappist-1e: Astronomers spotlight planet in hunt for extraterrestrial life – T (ft.com)

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Unsolved Problems in MLOps (acm.org)

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SAP splashes €20B on Euro sovereign cloud push (theregister.com)

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2025 Analytics Engine Ranking (onehouse.ai)

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100M Reads/SEC from Python and a REST API on AWS (rondb.com)

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Databricks Acquire Tecton (databricks.com)

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Journey to 100M Requests/SEC on AWS/RonDB. Spoiler: it was the load balancer (rondb.com)

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Context Engineering for AI Agents: Lessons from Building Manus (manus.im)

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About 700M years ago, the Earth froze over – now we may know why (theguardian.com)

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Ozzie Osbourne Dies (irishtimes.com)

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Fusion energy startup claims to have cracked alchemy (ft.com)

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Rethinking the Illusion of Thinking (arxiv.org)

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Embedding-Based Retrieval for Airbnb Search (medium.com/airbnb-engineering)

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The Small Data Showdown '25: Is It Time to Ditch Spark Yet? (milescole.dev)

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Don't forget what Silicon Valley tried to do (bloodinthemachine.com)

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Helsing valued at €12B to become one of Europe's most valuable tech groups (ft.com)

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Ireland became the Saudi Arabia of siphoned-off global profits (economist.com)

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Sweden gets help pulling its sovereign AI socks up (computerweekly.com)

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Denmark gets more serious about digital sovereignty (world.hey.com)

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Lakeflow Designer: No-Code ETL, Powered by the Databricks Intelligence Platform (databricks.com)

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Agent Bricks: Auto-Optimized Agents Using Your Data (databricks.com)

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Fallacies of MLOps (hopsworks.ai)

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Planetary Anomaly Spreading, Traced to Unknown Forces Beneath Earth's Crust (sustainability-times.com)

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Denmark gets more serious about digital sovereignty (world.hey.com)

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Chalk Raises $50M Series A to Power AI Inference (businesswire.com)

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LLM Evals: Common Mistakes [video] (youtube.com)

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The Taxonomy for Data Transformations in AI Systems (hopsworks.ai)

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Algorithmic phase transition 2.6B years ago and emergence of eukaryotic cells (phys.org)

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The emergence of eukaryotes as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition (pnas.org)

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Fennel Acquired by Databricks (databricks.com)

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Close the Loop: Faster Data Pipelines with MCP, DuckDB and AI (motherduck.com)

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Build TikTok's Personalized Real-Time Recommender in Python [video] (youtube.com)

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China nuclear fusion record generating steady loop of plasma for 1k seconds (livescience.com)

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Query Sweden's municipal and regional statistical database with MCP (github.com/aerugo)

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Bessemer Roadmap: Data 3.0 in the Lakehouse Era (bvp.com)

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Iceberg Became the Industry Standard for Data Lakehouse Platforms (medium.com/data-engineering-with-dremio...

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Foundation Model for Personalized Recommendation (netflixtechblog.medium.com)

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Apache Iceberg v3 and Beyond [video] (youtube.com)

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Battery Company Northvolt files for bankruptcy in Sweden (northvolt.com)

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Migrating our SaaS off AWS along with 8k Data Scientists (hopsworks.ai)

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AI Succession by Rich Sutton [video] (youtube.com)

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The 10 Fallacies of MLOps (hopsworks.ai)

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The Trend Is DeepSeek's Friend by Ion Stoica (twitter.com/istoica05)

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Use more features in online ML models with the Snowflake Schema Data Model (hopsworks.ai)

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Chollet – "o-models FAR beyond classical DL" [video] (youtube.com)

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Key Atlantic current could collapse soon (livescience.com)

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'I lost £165k to fraud in an hour' – customers say they were let down by Revolut (bbc.com)

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Building an AI System for RAG and Fine-Tuned LLMs with Hopsworks (readmedium.com)

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Force is strong in Iceberg:Are the table format wars entering the final chapter? (theregister.com)

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Over 50 staff layed off at Voltron Data (twitter.com/ncclementi)

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A Year of Insights with the MLOps and LLMOps Dictionary (medium.com/carolin.svenberg)

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Roche data shows stomach-churning side effects of weight-loss drugs (ft.com)

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Python Native Support and Real-Time – Extending the Lakehouse for AI (hopsworks.ai)

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Feldera stream processing 6.2X Flink on Nexmark Benchmark (feldera.com)

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Northvolt to cut jobs and sell off unit to survive EV chill (ft.com)

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Confluent Acquires Warpstream (confluent.io)

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The Rise and Pivot of Germany's One-Time AI Champion (bloomberg.com)

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Pharia-1-LLM: transparent and compliant (aleph-alpha.com)

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Making database systems usable (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

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A technical guide to architecting large ML pipelines on Snowflake warehouses (modelbit.com)

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Data Platform Engineers: The Game-Changers of Data Teams (dlthub.com)

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Table format comparisons – Append-only tables and incremental reads (jack-vanlightly.com)

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Databricks Clean Rooms for privacy-safe collaboration is in Public Preview (databricks.com)

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Building ML Systems the Right Way Using the FTI Architecture (medium.com/decodingml)

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Reproducible Training Data for AI Requires Ingestion Time, Not Event Time (hopsworks.ai)

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Swedish police investigate fourth death of Northvolt worker (thelocal.se)

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Quantize 123B Mistral-Large-Instruct-2407 to 35 GB with only 4% accuracy drop (reddit.com)

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Nerve fibres in the brain could generate quantum entanglement (newscientist.com)

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TorchVision Transforms V2 (YouTube) [video] (youtube.com)

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Devs evaluate, whatever your go-to-market motion is (markepear.com)

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Polaris Catalog is now Open Source (snowflake.com)

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Exploiting Cloud Object Storage for High-Performance Analytics [pdf] (vldb.org)

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From Lakehouse to AI Lakehouse with a Python-Native Query Engine (hopsworks.ai)

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KTH (ID2223)- MLOps Project Showcase 2024 (id2223kth.github.io)

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Modal now charging for reserved containers(minimum of 0.125 cores per container) (modal.com)

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Add more features to your ML model with a Snowflake Schema Data Model (hopsworks.ai)

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EU AI Act will enter into force on 1 August 2024 (cms-lawnow.com)

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AMD acquires Finnish startup Silo AI for $665M (siliconrepublic.com)

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ColPali: Efficient Document Retrieval with Vision Language Models (arxiv.org)

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Make lakehouse catalogs boring again (materializedview.io)

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Denisovians Survived on Tibetan Plateau for 160k Years (explorersweb.com)

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The Taxonomy for Data Transformations in AI Systems (hopsworks.ai)

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Does Apache Kafka preserve message ordering? (aiven.io)

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Leadership lessons from my RebelAI leadership community (buttondown.email/notanumber)