Christophe Blefari

APRIL 12, 2024

The fest we deserve ( credits ) I hope this Data News finds you well. But first I want to welcome all the new members joining this week after my new episode on DataGen with Robin Conquet. this week with a lot of new features. Mistral-8x22B is out — a new model that does something probably awesome.

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Christophe Blefari

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Italy Sora ( credits ) Hey you, time for the Data News. Because I did not send the news last week you will get articles from the 2 last weeks. Last few days have been heavily packed with AI News as well. Before jumping to the news there are a few events I want to write about. I'm happy to partner with them.

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Christophe Blefari

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

My ideas these days ( credits ) Hey, fresh Data News edition. This is my third presentation about DuckDB in the last 3 months and I think I'll slow down a bit until I get new crazy things to share. AI News 🤖 Mistral AI will release next week Mistral Next a ChatGPT alternative. We have only a few seats left.

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Christophe Blefari

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Anyway this week will be a mixed Data News with links, stuff and ideas and a small wrap-up of the DuckCon + the stuff I presented on Wed. If you have been impacted by a layoffs and you need help finding your new journey, write to me. DuckCon + my Duck stuff Because this Data News is already too long I split the content into 2 articles.

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Christophe Blefari

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Back in town ( credits ) Hey, it's been a few weeks since I've not written any news. Still I've accumulated a lot of articles that I think should fit in the Data News so this week might be a huge recap of content that has been produce in the last month. AI News 🤖 Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of OpenAI.

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Christophe Blefari

JANUARY 14, 2024

Back to the usual Data News—with a little delay, I'm sorry. It's a subject close to my heart and I was very happy to share it with you, because I never thought that Data News would become such a big part of my life. Wish me luck and have fun reading the news. Back to school ( credits ) Hello you.

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Christophe Blefari

JANUARY 20, 2024

Walking in the street be like recently ( credits ) Hey I hope this new edition finds you well. We are deep in the winter, it's time for comfy Data News to read near the fire 🔥 This week, on Monday, I started my annual university lecture. Google News is boosting garbage AI-generated articles — This is a paid article.

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Christophe Blefari

JANUARY 7, 2024

I wish you a Happy New Year and all the best for 2024. This edition of Data News will focus on the end of 2023 with a good retrospective about me and my activities—content and freelancing. I hope you're well and that you've ended 2023 on a high note with your loved ones. But you know how bad I'm with goals.

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Christophe Blefari

JANUARY 26, 2024

How to interact with AI models — Claire Lebarz, UX for data products AI News 🤖 This Chinese startup is winning the open source AI race — Thanks to Mistral AI open-source became the new standard among the community. There is a Chinese company called 01.ai ai who wants to build the first killer app of the Gen AI.

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Christophe Blefari

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Facing the News ( credits ) Hello Data News readers. Let's quickly jump to the news, because it's rather busy. Gen) AI News 🤖 Reinforcement Learning: an easy introduction to value iteration — Title says easy, but the article contains maths formula. But don't worry I don't forget you.

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Christophe Blefari

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Data News is packed this week, take time to enjoy it, rainy times are coming, you can see it as a gift 🎁 Enough dbt use lea 🥰 Max—the first Data News member 🤗—open-sourced carbonfact /lea this week. New Vertex AI Feature Store — GCP Vertex AI is the place to do "serverless" AI.

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Christophe Blefari

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

I've taken an unplanned 3-week break since the last Data News, let's be honest, it was necessary! A new year starts in September, new friends, new classes and new things. Data News is back, but with the same recipe: a weekly newsletter to let you catch up on the previous weeks' articles.

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Analytics Vidhya

APRIL 17, 2023

This article will give you a glimpse of Kedro framework using news classification tasks. The advantages of using Kedro are: Machine Learning Engineering: It borrows concepts from […] The post Walkthrough of Kedro Framework Using News Classification Task appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Christophe Blefari

JUNE 16, 2023

Some personal news, next Monday and Tuesday I'll be at Berlin Buzzwords, if you're ping me, it would be a pleasure to meet and hang together. Metis: building Airbnb’s next generation data management platform — The new manifesto for every data governance company /S. Casual day at the office finally. seed round.

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Christophe Blefari

JULY 15, 2023

Anyway, here a quick press roundup about a few news and articles. Gen AI 🤖 Elon Musk announced xAI , his new company, to show that he's better than the rest. It reminds me when press gave up years ago on their own platform writing for Google and Facebook news platform. So it will be for later.

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Christophe Blefari

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Before moving on to the Data News, a bit of personal news, in December, I took part in the MotherDuck meetup in Berlin. It will talk about my search for a new spicy adventure, the fact that I've finally taken up running again, my new journey as an angel investor, and so on. Enjoy this last 2023 Data News.

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Christophe Blefari

APRIL 14, 2023

Anyway, here the weekly Data News, written faster than usual. AI News 🤖 Yann le Cun did a 10 minutes interview at a major French radio. Regarding fake news and ethics he compares to e-mails. He thinks that like when we develop spamming filters to avoid fake mails we will develop the same to avoid fake news.

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Christophe Blefari

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This is what the metrics store inspires me ( credits ) Dear Data News friend, every week there is a bit of randomness when this email will truly land in your mailbox—which, btw, breaks all the rules of newsletter writing. Yeah, you know, you have to get your readers used to a fixed schedule, which they can trust and bla, bla, bla.

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Christophe Blefari

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This is a super late Data News, I wanted to send it earlier but I was travelling then enjoying time with friends and family. Fast News ⚡️ Postgres 16 has been released — featuring a few performance improvements in parallel executions ( string_agg and array_agg ) but also with SELECT DISTINCT and COPY command.

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Christophe Blefari

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This is a super late Data News, I wanted to send it earlier but I was travelling then enjoying time with friends and family. Fast News ⚡️ Postgres 16 has been released — featuring a few performance improvements in parallel executions ( string_agg and array_agg ) but also with SELECT DISTINCT and COPY command.

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Christophe Blefari

JULY 22, 2023

Also be ready for the Data News: Summer Edition. This is a small blogpost to give you a few reads while waiting for your next travel. We can already feel summer, I found less articles to enter the selection this week.

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Christophe Blefari

JUNE 24, 2023

( credits ) Hey, this is the Data News. The VCs’ actual use case for AI is treating workers badly" Too perfect to be a real picture ( credits ) Fast News ⚡️ MotherDuck announcing DuckDB in the cloud — First, context. I hope this edition finds you well. DuckDB is an in-memory analytics database.

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Christophe Blefari

JUNE 3, 2023

Gen AI 🤖 As always the pace of innovation in this field is incredibly fast so here a few news I've seen I found worth it: Japan goes all in: copyright doesn’t apply to AI training — I'm far from being a law expert but it looks like something that will create precedence.

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Christophe Blefari

JANUARY 27, 2023

My view from the train window ( credits ) Dear Data News readers it's a joy every week to write this newsletter, we are slowly approaching the second birthday of this newsletter. This is enough about my life, let's jump to the news. This is us ( credits ) Fast News ⚡️ Airbyte announced a free sync plan.

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Christophe Blefari

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Delivering the data news ( credits ) Hey you, it's already February. Let's jump directly to the news. Fast News ⚡️ What's the Modern Data Stack? Nothing new under the sun. See you next week ❤️ PS: and sorry it was a fast data news today. Every week same analysis for me.

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Christophe Blefari

MARCH 17, 2023

If you live in a cave or if you only read my newsletter to get news about the data world you might have missed that GPT-4 has been announced and released this week. I even had hard time navigating between data engineering memes and GPT4 tips on LinkedIn and my Twitter is divided between GPT-4 threads and protests in France.

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Christophe Blefari

MAY 29, 2023

Fast News ⚡️ clickhouse-local vs DuckDB — DuckDB is not the only one to work great locally. Gen Ai 🤖 QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs — 65B parameter model on a single 48GB GPU reaching 99.3% of the performance level of ChatGPT on Vicuna. Modding Age of Empires II with a Sprite-Diffuser.

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Christophe Blefari

MAY 12, 2023

Sorting the news ( credits ) Hey you, new Friday means Data News. The StarCoder ( credits ) Fast News ⚡️ Zero ELT could be the death of the modern data stack — Amazon launched this trend a few months ago. This week is pretty stacked in term of content, especially video / audio content.

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Christophe Blefari

MARCH 4, 2023

Formula 1 is back (trying to jinx before it happens) (yes there is no link with the data news) ( credits ) Hello you, I hope this new Data News finds you well. So thank you for that.

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Christophe Blefari

APRIL 8, 2023

Data News entering in town ( credits ) Hey you, if I wasn't late in my newsletter writing it wouldn't be me. But here is your usual Data News. Rare footage of a foundation model ( credits ) Fast News ⚡️ Twitter's recommendation algorithm — It was an Elon tweet.

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Christophe Blefari

APRIL 8, 2023

Data News entering in town ( credits ) Hey you, if I wasn't late in my newsletter writing it wouldn't be me. But here is your usual Data News. Rare footage of a foundation model ( credits ) Fast News ⚡️ Twitter's recommendation algorithm — It was an Elon tweet.

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Christophe Blefari

OCTOBER 14, 2023

( credits ) Hello, dear Data News reader, I hope you'll enjoy this new edition. But I've got this internal alarm that goes off every 3 years asking me for new things. See you next week ❤️ — this week other articles will be blended in next week Data News!

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Christophe Blefari

JUNE 9, 2023

Rethinking the newsletter ( credits ) Here's a new edition of the Data News newsletter. A ControlNet generated QR Code, the link sends to a website to personalise QR codes developed by the author Fast News ⚡️ Which team should own data quality? I've been sick and I've been stuck on a client project.

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Christophe Blefari

MARCH 24, 2023

I really don't know how to deal with news overflow about the Gen AI landscape. Because OpenAI is not everything, some news of the alternative world. Fast News ⚡️ Pi? It seems that you really liked the recent editions, which is perfect because it was fun to write. Do you like all the GenAI hype?

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Christophe Blefari

JANUARY 14, 2023

I have busy weeks, I'm sorry Data News are coming on Saturday again. Enjoy the Data News. Credits Good Tech Things by @ forrestbrazeal Fast News ⚡️ Announcing dbt-fal adapter — I shared fal months ago when they launched. Abandoned Pandas ( credits ) Hey. I did not read it yet but it looks great.

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Christophe Blefari

JULY 8, 2023

credits ) Hey you, this is the Saturday Data News edition 🥲 Time flies. Small, but mighty — Salesforce released a new version of the CodeGen model. Who's leading the data peloton? Having some kind of simulated real-time data would be the best.

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Christophe Blefari

JANUARY 20, 2023

Summer in coming ( credits ) Hey, new Friday, new Data News edition. I'm so happy to see new people coming every week. Thank you for every recommendation you do about the blog or the Data News. This kindness for my content gives me wings. I got less inspired this week, it means shorter edition.

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