dennylee
@dennylee
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geek, scribe, coffee snob, and wanna-be cyclist. Contributor to Apache Spark and Delta Lake maintainer. Developer Relations at Databricks (opinions r my own)
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Joined May 2008
I love how when Trump goes five days without openly violating the U.S. Constitution we just all assume he passed away
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Sold out room for the @lancedb and @dltHub tutorial @ @pydataberlin @PyData . Had a lot of fun doing this workshop with Violetta and Ashish @dltHub !
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Lakebase makes it easy to build stateful operational apps over your data with the full power of Postgres and @neondatabase! It's super easy to get started and directly integrates with your data security controls.
Building apps on Databricks just got a lot easier! 🏗️ Learn how Lakebase can serve as the transactional data layer for Databricks Apps. - Unified stack: Build apps on top of data in your lakehouse with Databricks Apps + Lakebase - Secure & serverless: Native auth, governance,
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Mississippi’s homicide rate is 380% California’s, yet FOX NEWS refuses to cover it!
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🎙️ Say hello to OLMoASR—our fully open, from-scratch speech-to-text (STT) model. Trained on a curated audio-text set, it boosts zero-shot ASR and now powers STT in the Ai2 Playground. 👇
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Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
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LAURA “LOW RATINGS” INGRAHAM ON FOX HAS A TERRIBLE CASE OF NEWSOM DERANGEMENT SYNDROME (NDS!). THE AMERICAN PEOPLE LOVE ME, GAVIN C. NEWSOM, AMERICA’S FAVORITE GOVERNOR!!! FOX SHOULD CANCEL LAURA IMMEDIATELY — OR FACE HUGE “CONSEQUENCES!!!” THANK YOU! — GCN
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What if you could reliably monitor, evaluate, and control your AI’s behavior with a single, adaptable tool – no deep expertise required? Databricks’ new Prompt-Guided Reward Model brings together reward modeling and judging to do just that. PGRM is your AI’s quality control
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If you're running agents in production, consider taking this brief survey. In a collaboration spanning researchers from @UCBerkeley, @IBMResearch , @StanfordAILab, @UofIllinois , @intesasanpaolo, and more—with participants from leading banks, telecoms, agent startups, and
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Pay attention to this excerpt: “We are seven months into the new administration, and no CDC subject matter expert from my Center has ever briefed the Secretary. I am not sure who the Secretary is listening to, but it is quite certainly not to us.”
My resignation letter from CDC. Dear Dr. Houry, I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business.
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Americans need to understand what’s happening tonight at the CDC. This was an agency held together over the last 7 months by scientists with decades of experience in public health, who hung on despite a relentless assault on science-based policy by RFK and Trump. There is a
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Eminem on Trump supporters: “Watching him play to his base that thinks he cares about them and it’s actually the people he cares about the fucking least. How in the fuck do you feel like you relate to a billionaire who has never known struggle his entire fucking life?”
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ICE kept this nursing student in captivity for HALF A YEAR until she broke down from sheer despair and desperation and agreed to voluntarily move to a country she fled at gunpoint as an eight-year-old. History will not forgive.
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We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary
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It was a blast giving a talk on multimodal Data Lakehouses and @daftengine at @databricks Amsterdam! Thanks for hosting me @DeltaLakeOSS!
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If you're running agents in production, consider taking this short survey from my research group! We're collaborating with IBM, Stanford, UIUC, Intesa Sanpaolo and others to better understand the challenges in building agents. It only takes 5 minutes:
agents-survey.github.io
A collaboration of over 20 researchers across UC Berkeley, Intesa Sanpaolo, IBM Research, UIUC, and Stanford working on industry-grade agentic AI systems.
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Arkansas’ murder rate is 2.6x higher than San Francisco’s. WHY WON'T FOX REPORT THAT???
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