George Fraser
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I mostly tweet about software, data, and the difficulty of changing our opinions based on what the data tell us.
Oakland, CA
Joined March 2012
The living room webinar vibe is a great trend. Maybe I’ll start singing a song at the beginning like Mr. Rogers.
In this roundtable discussion, MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani shares how their team built a seamless destination connector — enabling users to move normalized data from any Fivetran source into MotherDuck with zero custom code. Watch the full conversation:
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SQL was designed to prioritize readability over writability and with AI code generation this is going to be a really great strength, 50 years in.
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Enterprise buyers love negotiating limitations of liability. Someone needs to make an AI bot that will argue endlessly with procurement people about LoL.
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It’s funny how the increasing power of desktops and laptops was increasingly for naught and now suddenly with big AI models we could REALLY USE JUST ANOTHER 10X please.
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.@VPrasadMDMPH, the foremost advocate of evidence based medicine, has been pushed out of the FDA, apparently because he refused to approve a drug that failed its primary endpoint in phase 3 trials and killed 3 patients, but some patients still believe it helps them. Evidence.
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This is a longstanding controversy and it would be so easy to resolve: conduct a 1-q street survey in which you ask homeless people to show their ID and you write down the city on it. One surveyor could get a decent estimate in one day. I’ve been tempted to do it myself.
When a homeless person goes to Human Services to get aide, they ask: "Where were you immediately prior to becoming homeless?" If you say San Francisco, then you're considered "from here." Even if you came from Idaho a month before and slept on a friend's couch, you're from here.
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RT @fivetran: Tim Veil, Principal at Two Bear Capital, needed a way to connect critical data sources that weren’t supported out of the box.….
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RT @ReichlinMelnick: Andry Hernández Romero, the innocent make-up artist imprisoned without trial for 4 months in El Salvador by the Trump….
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JD is the most pathetic vice president in the history of the office and that is REALLY saying something. Spiro Agnew is a giant compared to this man.
Forgive my language but this story is complete and utter bullshit. The WSJ should be ashamed for publishing it. Where is this letter? Would you be shocked to learn they never showed it to us before publishing it? Does anyone honestly believe this sounds like Donald Trump?.
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RT @ReichlinMelnick: 🚨NEW. A horror story emerges from hacked flight logs of the March 15 flight to El Salvador to be imprisoned without tr….
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Not surprising at all. They should just move the whole conference. You cannot do a big international event in the US because, visas.
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We need to build an Arcology in SF. YIMBY is too basic, we need to be transgressive and weird. This is what will bring all the factions together.
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RT @cremieuxrecueil: Here's an interesting way to improve patient medication adherence:. Prescribe them a larger supply. Patients put on a….
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RT @thenanyu: Compensation curves for IC engineers at *big companies* has always been incorrect in my view. What Zuck is doing right now is….
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RT @antoniogm: Fukuyama is the most misunderstood contemporary intellectual, and his detractors never read past the title of ‘The End of Hi….
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RT @ArmandDoma: It is funny how Elon is so obsessed with politics yet remains totally incapable of learning even very basic things about it….
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With ai code gen canvas interfaces might make a comeback. It’s a nice alternative to chat as a UI for high level specification of what you want to do. “Join these two tables, figure out the details for me.”.
With dbt Canvas, analyst and data teams can drag and drop sources, join data, filter, add formulas, and more, all within a governed environment. Each step is visual, modular, documented, and compiled to SQL, so anyone on your team can shape production-ready models in minutes.
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