A performant pythonic way to read and write data into Iceberg.

This is very interesting, clearly there's a major pain point here to be addressed, especially the delta between local pandas work and distributed [pyspark] work!

Would love to test this out and do benchmarks against us/ Dask/ Spark/ Ray etc which have been our primary testing ground. Full disclosure, work at Bodo which has similar-ish aspirations (https://github.com/bodo-ai/Bodo), but FOSS all the way.

As the author, I think this is my favourite comment I've ever received. I won't even try to argue with you about my bias!

They were!

Author here. This is super interesting, and while I am mostly a lurker here welcome back?

This is very interesting thanks Shawn. I did email William Merrill to see his thoughts but didn't get a response yet.

They are librarians, just that it happens to be the library of Babel.

(Author here). I tried creating something similar in order to solve wordle etc, and the interesting part is that it is insufficient still. That's part of the mystery.

An excellent short story about an ASI getting super-aligned through four magic words, and its aftermath

In this instance, "Sam is trying to take over the Board on a flimsy basis" is an reasonable reason to remove him. Started leading discussions about whether she should be removed, is also very very far from actively working to remove her.

This is amateur hour and considering what happened she probably should have been removed.

Leading discussions on whether someone should be removed is literally actively working to remove them.

What would those "active efforts" consist of beyond "leading discussions"? You have the discussion, you have the board vote, you're done, there's no ??? step.