Jacob Matson
@matsonj
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excel user & data enthusiast. Dev Advocacy @MotherDuck
Seattle, WA
Joined July 2008
if you want to see what it looks like when you replace a really complicated excel spreadsheet with a web app, head on over to to see my monte carlo sim for nba, nfl etc
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Generate videos in just a few seconds. Try Grok Imagine, free for a limited time.
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Based on my recent interactions with LLMs, this is deeply embedded in the training data set. In a few years no one will know the difference anymore.
I don’t know the difference between “lawyer” and “attorney” and I plan on keeping it that way for the rest of my life.
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there will be signs etc.
@RhysSullivan if i sold my company for 26 billion dollars i would never stop tweeting.
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RT @aarondfrancis: I stole this multiple border idea from a newspaper that's like 50 years old. Old school print did a lot of vv cool stuff….
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This tracks. 200/mo plan is insane value even with the rate limits going into play later this month.
some napkin math on why Claude Code with the 200USD plan is basically unbeatable if you have >1B tokens a month and want the the "best possible model without going broke". every model cheaper than it is worse, every model more expensive than it is rarely objectively better. tl;dr
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Chat apps is a good place to start - slack/teams/discord.
where are some good spots to harvest souls for someone just getting into soul harvesting?.
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Am I doing something wrong? Grok is insanely expensive in my highly rigorous benchmark.
Grok 4 ranks #1 in coding accuracy by a wide margin. It’s the standout choice among everything out there and the most reliable option for shipping real code
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Spark 🤝 DuckLake.
DuckLake stores lakehouse metadata in a real DB—not scattered JSON. With DuckDB, it’s powerful. With Spark, it’s a breeze. In this blog, @mehd_io shows how to: .⚡ Build a local+remote lakehouse .⚡ Read/write with Spark on DuckLake.
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Wife: “were you wrestling with the dog”. Me: *covered in dog hair* “how did you know”.
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Me irl
nerd programmers: nooooooooo you can't store currency as floats, floating point error will cause you to be off by 1 billionth of a penny!!! noooooooooo. everyone in finance: uses Excel which stores all numbers, integers, dates, datetimes, etc as floats.
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The price increases over the next 2-3 years are gonna be insane as it seems like we are at a plateau of cost x perf.
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Officer I swear this is my second fridge.
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