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Ned Letcher

@nletcher
data (science | analytics | visualisation | engineering), @thoughtworks, #Python, #nlproc, ML, & assorted whimsical miscellania
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    Ned Letcher
    @nletcher
    Jun 24, 2024
    Around 18 months ago, I noticed a critical mass of excitement happening around #DuckDB. A number of folks whose opinions I value and trust were saying some very bullish things about its applications for data engineering and data science, and so I decided it was time to jump down
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    Ned Letcher
    @nletcher
    Sep 1, 2025
    Assessing LLM output quality requires managing vast input/output spaces and acute sensitivity to minor prompt changes, but many teams are still running on largely vibe-based evals, incurring considerable risk and preventing systematic product improvement. We can do better! [1/5]
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    Ned Letcher
    @nletcher
    Oct 26, 2024
    Every time I've needed a top-N SQL query, I've thought, there *has* to be a better way to do this. With #DuckDB 1.1 there is!
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    DuckDB
    @duckdb
    Oct 25, 2024
    ๐—™๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฝ ๐—ก ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€ The end of the week brings us another blog post. @__AlexMonahan__ takes a deep dive into the top N capabilities in DuckDB: duckdb.org/2024/10/25/topn Happy Friday!