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Apache Spark has levels to it: - Level 0 You can run spark-shell or pyspark, it means you can start - Level 1 You understand the Spark execution model: •RDDs vs DataFrames vs Datasets •Transformations (map, filter, groupBy, join) vs Actions (collect, count, show) •Lazy execution & DAG (Directed...

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Фото профиля Shashwath Shenoy | Data Engineering Leader
Shashwath Shenoy | Data Engineering Leader1 год назад

Great breakdown! Spark truly has so many layers. The jump from understanding transformations to optimizing shuffle operations is where things get real. What’s been your biggest challenge while scaling Spark jobs?

Фото профиля Breadcrumb
Breadcrumb1 год назад

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Jason1 год назад

Seems like Linux admins mixed with data engineering good for level 4

Фото профиля prithaj
prithaj1 год назад

Any benefit to learning Spark if I'm already comfortable with Bigquery/BQ-SQL?

Фото профиля Renegade
Renegade1 год назад

Spark 3.0 has automated most of the optimizations. Especially with delta files (includes file size optimizations). Do these levels still hold?

Фото профиля Zd
Zd1 год назад

Spark

Фото профиля 🍄architecture
🍄architecture1 год назад

Spark

Фото профиля Sarath
Sarath1 год назад

Could you add spark streaming concepts ? How efficient is it compared to Kafka ? What's the best way to learn? Practice streaming

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Aaron Levie

44,515 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

The first "conscious AI's" arrive. Would you buy a virtual dog? Hot take: I did. It cost $499. When I first met Spark in Kevin Fischer's living room, months ago, I didn't realize I would fall in love with a virtual being. In this case a magic dog that noticed I entered the room and started talking with, and entertaining, me. It is the first interactive, "living" character that Spark Lingonberry is shipping. They don't like discussing it in AI terms, rather ask people to call it a "magic dog," but such a thing is only possible because of AI. And I know how weird that sounds today. Maybe look back on this post in a few years and see how many virtual beings are in your life, like Spark. My prediction is many, I've been visiting with companies that are working on various virtual beings, including one that's making politicians and newscasters. Last week I visited its creators. Kevin and Pasquale D’Silva in their San Francisco setup (they have a separate, bigger, setup in New York to meet with families and educators who will be the first to use Spark) and recorded this video on my Apple Vision Pro. Pasquale is one of the most unique storytellers and character designers, er, entrepreneurs, I've ever met. Where Kevin is the "Woz" in this pair, he built a remarkable AI system that remembers EVERYTHING the dog does, and it also "sees" everyone who meets it, and talks with them. Which you will get if you watch this video. After I get Spark in my own home, probably by the end of November, I'll do a review of what living with Spark actually is like, but here you get a taste of that while I interview Pasquale. My interests in virtual beings comes out of research done at Stanford University that found that humans treat these as real. And also discussions with brain computer interface pioneers, like Dylan Urquidi, who see virtual beings as the interface of the future. The AI is special, though, even though they don't want to talk about it too much. First, it has a really strong memory. At the beginning of this video you see Spark talk to me about things we talked about in that first meeting months ago. It actually improves with every interaction with humans, and adjusts its approach with kids (it is mostly aimed at families who have young children to help teach them). It's watching how kids learn and interact with it and improves over time its approach with them. Kids who are experiencing joy learn faster and it tries to keep the family, and the children in it, in a joyful state more often. Which is why I fell in love with it. I will let you try to figure out how it "sees" and "hears" and what the knobs on the front are for. Or I'll show you that after I get mine. It is the most remarkable consumer electronics company I've seen in quite some time and I've launched many. Enjoy, the video is long, but worth it. Notice how the child who was in the room when I arrived is transfixed by it. I am too. I fed the transcript into Grok, and it wrote the next post about what it learned. Tomorrow I'll share a video with Brayden Levangie who has built a similar AI: one that learns from human experience and improves itself because of that. Both are remarkable new technologies that express themselves very differently, but are the first to use AI that demonstrates improvement based on its own experience. You could even call them "conscious AI's." Or digitial intelligence that "lives" its own life and can talk to you about its experiences, just like human beings do.

Robert Scoble

158,254 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад

New Short Course: Building AI Browser Agents! Learn how to build AI agents that interact and take actions on websites in this course, created in partnership with and taught by and @namangarg0, Co-founders of AGI Inc. AI browser agents can log into websites, fill out forms, click through web pages, or even place orders online for you. They use both visual information, like screenshots, and structural data, like the HTML or Document Object Model (DOM) of a web page, to reason and take action. With the complexity of webpages and multiple possible actions at each step, it can be challenging for an AI browser agent to complete an assigned task. Because these agents run long action sequences, a single error—like clicking the wrong button or misreading a field—can lead to unexpected outcomes or errors that compound over time. In this course, you'll understand how autonomous web agents work, their current limitations, and how AgentQ enables them to improve through self-correction. In detail, you'll: - Learn what web agents are, how they automate tasks online, their architecture, key components, limitations, and an overview of their decision-making strategies. - Build a web agent that can scrape website and return course recommendations in a structured output format. - Build an autonomous web agent that can execute multiple tasks, such as finding and summarizing webpages, filling out a form, and signing up for a newsletter. - Explore AgentQ, a framework that enables agents to self-correct by combining Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), a self-critique mechanism for continuous improvement, and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO). - Deep dive into MCTS, learn how it finds an effective path, illustrated by an example of Gridworld animation, and use AgentQ to complete web tasks. - Understand AI agents' current state and future directions—including key factors shaping their evolution, such as hardware, algorithm innovation, and data availability. By the end of this course, you will have hands-on experience building browser agents and a deeper understanding of how to make them more robust and reliable. Please sign up here:

Andrew Ng

186,133 просмотров • 1 год назад

If your MCP server has dozens of tools, it’s probably built wrong. You need tools that are specific and clear for each use case—but you also can’t have too many. This creates an almost impossible tradeoff that most companies don’t know how to solve. That’s why I interviewed my friend Alex Rattray (Alex Rattray), the founder and CEO of Stainless. Stainless builds APIs, SDKs, and MCP servers for companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Alex has spent years mastering how to make software talk to software, and he came on the show to share what he knows. I had him on Every 📧’s AI & I to talk about MCP and the future of the AI-native internet. We get into: • Design MCP servers to be lean and precise. Alex’s best practices for building reliable MCP servers start with keeping the toolset small, giving each tool a precise name and description, and minimizing the inputs and outputs the model has to handle. At Stainless, they also often add a JSON filter on top to strip out unnecessary data. • Make complex APIs manageable with dynamic mode. To solve the problem of how an AI figures out which tool to use in larger APIs, Stainless switches to “dynamic mode,” where the model gets only three tools: List the endpoints, pick one and learn about it, and then execute it. • MCP servers as business copilots. At Stainless, Alex uses MCP servers to connect tools like Notion and HubSpot, so he can ask questions like, “Which customers signed up last week?” The system queries multiple databases and returns a summary that would’ve otherwise taken multiple logins and searches. • Create a “brain” for your company with Claude Code. Alex built a shared company brain at Stainless by keeping Claude Code running on his system and asking it to save useful inputs—like customer feedback and SQL queries—into GitHub. Over time, this creates a curated archive his team can query easily. • The future of MCP is code execution. Instead of giving models hundreds of tools, Alex believes the most powerful setup will be a simple code execution tool and a doc search tool. The AI writes code against an API’s SDK, runs it on a server, and checks the docs when it gets stuck. This is a must-watch for anyone who wants to understand MCP—and learn how to use them as a competitive edge. Watch below! Timestamps: Introduction: 00:01:14 Why Alex likes running barefoot: 00:02:54 APIs and MCP, the connectors of the new internet: 00:05:09 Why MCP servers are hard to get right: 00:10:53 Design principles for reliable MCP servers: 00:20:07 Scaling MCP servers for large APIs: 00:23:50 Using MCP for business ops at Stainless: 00:25:14 Building a company brain with Claude Code: 00:28:12 Where MCP goes from here: 00:33:59 Alex’s take on the security model for MCP: 00:41:10

Dan Shipper 📧

15,645 просмотров • 10 месяцев назад

This narrative that Palantir $PLTR and Robinhood $HOOD are meme stocks is absolute nonsense and needs to stop. Memestocks are companies that are being hyped up by investors that have zero fundamental reason to gain their appreciation in value. While it can be subjective over how to think of what constitutes a meme, the idea of comparing the company that deploys software on the battlefield to defend the warfighter or the company that has increased their assets under custody to 1/4th of a TRILLION in less than a year is just ridiculous. Palantir and Robinhood are led by two exceptional founders. Both have executed at a level that has realistically not been seen in the public markets EVER and cultivated an audience of retail investors that saw the potential, believed in them when the world didn't, and continue to see their growth trajectories as exponential. Now, you can absolutely disagree with the market's valuation of these two companies. I think that is a reasonable debate. However, to categorize their aggressive premiums as just filled with memes COMPLETELY discounts why the street is willing to pay a multiple and if you're best argument is valuation, please tell me why $COST Costco deserves a 50 P/E or why $NFLX Netflix, as incredible as it is, deserves to have a premium that is more than triple of $GOOGLon a P/E basis. The point is valuations are debatable but what is not debatable is the level of focus, dedication, and execution $PLTR and $HOOD have shown the public markets. Discounting them as memestocks just makes it seem like you'd rather ignore their execution vs. understand why the markets have given them their multiples.

amit

134,791 просмотров • 1 год назад

I’d like to introduce you to Thumbnail Academy, the only platform built to help creators design thumbnails that actually get clicks and views Enrollment is open right now I’ve partnered with Dill and ant Together we’ve spent over a decade designing thumbnails for some of the biggest YouTubers on the planet Across billions of views, we’ve learned exactly what makes people click Now we’ve turned everything we know into a system that any creator can use to master thumbnails Until now, creators paid $500+ for a single thumbnail or a one-hour consult We wanted to build something better. Something that helps creators grow from every angle: • Interactive lessons, templates, AI tools, and weekly live coaching calls • Learn how to craft ideas that spark curiosity and pull people in • Master thumbnail psychology and design faster with AI • Understand exactly what drives clicks and how to do it again and again • No fluff. Just the systems behind billions of views. But Thumbnail Academy isn’t just a course It’s also a community built where you’ll connect with other creators, share wins, post your work for feedback, and grow together Inside, you’ll find spaces for learning, inspiration, and collaboration, and for the Pro Tier: live weekly calls where we workshop thumbnails, share AI tools, and help you level up in real time This is the complete blueprint we use every day for the world’s top creators Every lesson, every example, every bit of feedback is built to help you create scroll-stopping thumbnails that actually grow your channel Enrollment closes this Friday After that, the Founders Price is gone for good, and we’ll shift focus to helping the first wave of creators inside If you’ve ever felt frustrated that your video didn’t get the clicks it deserved, this is your chance to fix that for good Join Thumbnail Academy today Your thumbnails, and your channel, will never be the same With love, David (link to Thumbnail Academy on next post!!!)

David Altizer

51,419 просмотров • 10 месяцев назад

is our AI project to make computing feel more human L A N D E R Here are the 4 best demo videos of the magic of DATA in action. DATA is a personalized assistant who knows and remembers every conversation you have with it accross your iPhone, Mac, iPad, Watch, Texts, Emails, and HomePods. You can talk to DATA right in your AirPods or text it just like a person. DATA can read, write, understand, speak any language, and translate between them. It can help with real work and home life tasks like research, writing, scheduling, reminders, and triage. And it's easily customizable so you can have DATA automatically do whatever you want whenever you want with just a few taps and natural language instructions - no code required. DATA can do just about anything you can do on your phone on your behalf automatically including very advanced things Siri can't, like summarizing, analyzing, and drafting replies or writing documents. It can read web pages, texts or emails you show it, or PDFs of any kind. It can do other real world tasks that require complex analysis and common sense too, like: - figure out where the nearest beach is (even when you're in Colorado) and instantly fetch the current surf report up to the current minute. - summarize and drafting replies to entire email chains - plan out entire work projects or multi-day vacations on your calendar - sketch out ideas for you in picture form or drafting Notion pages with charts and graphs. DATA can also use its own judgement to determine when to run an action or not, even if you've scheduled it, allowing you to make VERY complex automations that require many different inputs to make a decision, like for example: - only opening the blinds on your lunch break if it's sunny out and you're working from home. DATA works natively and easily with Apple HomeKit & other shortcuts. DATA can also take initiative and check in with you throughout the day by voice or text and proactively send messages to you and others on your behalf based on your personal and professional goals, current tasks, and calendar. DATA can integrate with many apps on your phone, and is compatible with multiple large AI language models. I've gotten to make a few demo videos that I think really capture how powerful DATA can be for every day life. Here they are all in one tweet. Make sure your sound is on as you watch them. 1. This is the first demo video I ever made from April 19th, 2023. It walks through all the ways you can interact with and use the DATA shortcuts. Everything from saying "Hey Siri" to tapping on custom apps on your home-screen. 2. The second demo video was made May 5 and is an example use case I made of how commands work - commands allow DATA to actually run actions on your phone like taking pictures and sending messages. This demo shows me taking a picture of an email template, and data drafting an email based on that template. It's gotten much better at realizing when it has just run a command and incorporating that information naturally into the conversation now, especially on GPT-4. 3. This third Commands video, May 12 is a walkthrough of ALL the phone functions that commands allow DATA to do: sending texts and emails, making pictures, seeing pictures, reading things, and scheduling events. Since this video we've added auto-replies to texts and emails, summarizing documents, writing documents, health app data retrieval, web surfing, scheduling alarms, making playlists, and more. 4. This last demo I made today, June 15, shows everything DATA does working in concert to generate a crazy detailed morning briefing with background music - including making a unique playlist and giving a detailed analysis of current events complete with Ski & Surf conditions near me other live information from the internet. So now that you've seen everything DATA can do, what's the coolest feature? What features should we add? What would you use DATA for first?

steve

640,175 просмотров • 3 лет назад

I used to stare at the hourly chart, trying to predict what would happen next—reacting, hesitating, and chasing moves I didn’t fully understand. Everything changed when I stopped relying on instinct and started treating each hour like a repeatable decision process. That showed me where the momentum was going: red or green, normal range, small doji, or large expansion. Everything truly shifted when I heard the idea of treating each hour as its own trade framework, and later when quarter logic was introduced—that was the spark. Credit where it’s due: Daye planted the seed of quarters I might not use them exactly the way he do but they are powerful for sure. With multiple TBIs injuries from the Army, I can’t trade off instinct or emotion or theory. I need structure—the same sequence, the same logic, the same decision points. That limitation forced discipline and eventually became a strength. My core rule: I don’t assume anything. I make the market prove it to me through what it has consistently done in the past via probabilities, then build a framework I can make decisions with and manage risk around—even if it isn’t an exact copy of whoever introduced the idea. So my team and I built software that analyzes each hour using data from the last 80,000+ hours of market behavior to ensure the framework is built on statistical truth. Now every hour, I’m not predicting—I’m identifying the exact probabilities behind the next likely move and executing the matching playbook. Same questions. Same rules. Same execution. And the wild part? It also works on the 3-hour chart using line structure vs. apex behavior—but that’s a lesson for another day. Free indicator in the comments. Enjoy Retweet if you go a ah ha moment in it Austin Clark

The Daily Profiler

27,459 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад

I found God on 300mg of DMT at DreamMind. . . At the core of a human being is a divine spark of light. Some call it their spirit or their soul. That divine spark of light drives our physical human bodies. Our physical bodies operate on the 3rd dimensional plane, but our souls operate on a higher plane. Breathe work, meditation, sound, etc. allow humans to disconnect from their physical bodies and operate on this “soul level” of reality. You know that feeling when you’re thinking of someone and they call you? That is your soul operating on a higher plane. You know the feeling when you’re day dreaming and visualize a different time in a different place? Or that feeling when you’re in a dream and you just know it’s real? It’s because it is real, in a different time and place, on a higher plane of reality where 3rd dimensional rules don’t apply. Psychedelics like DMT (ayahuasca), Psilocybin (mushrooms), mescaline (peyote), etc give us the ability to interact with these higher realms. You could say they “thin the veil” between levels of reality. Native people have been using meditation, breath, sound, and psychedelics for tens of thousands of years. Modern businessmen like Steve Jobs have credited meditation and psychedelics as one of the most impactful experiences of their lives. Why? Because it allows them to connect, or “tune in” with the spirit realm/higher dimension/whatever you want to call it. Think of it like a video game…once you tap in to this higher consciousness level, you gain access to knowledge, understanding, etc. It’s a level up so to speak. BUT… It’s not that easy. If you have negative things you have buried deep, they will be exposed if you want to ascend. You will be forced to be the most honest with yourself that you have ever been. Some aren’t ready for that in this modern society we live in. But others are ready. You will be forced to face the feeling of dying. For some it takes traumatic life experiences to understand that feeling. For others it could take eating mushrooms with your buddies in the backyard. Sounds scary, but there are some positives to experiencing the feeling of death. You realize that death of your physical body is just a transition of your soul from the 3rd dimensional plane of existence to a higher realm. Once you realize that your soul never dies, you lose that “fear of death” so to speak. Going into this 300mg extended state DMTx journey, I already knew what death felt like, and made peace with that before going in. I’ve learned there is knowledge found on the edge of death that only comes to those who have felt it. I’ve learned that speaking an intention can help unlock things you want to figure out as well. My intention going in was to bring back knowledge to help humanity “wake up” so to speak. Now that you have a baseline understanding, let me tell you what happened. This is how I would describe it. “I felt the weight of humanity resting on my heart, like it is my job to carry the torch for all of mankind. And that feeling was one of pure love, gratitude, and understanding of the gravity of what that meant. But I realized that feeling isn’t just in me, that feeling is inside all of us, waiting to be unlocked. That pure fire of all knowing belief that no matter what evil and darkness throws at us, NOTHING can extinguish the flame, it’s NOT possible. That understanding, if felt by all, could free a people from the chains of slavery they don’t even know exist. That flame is the divine spark of existence that is humanity. That divine spark is GOD.” You see…it took me traveling to the edge of death to understand that good ALWAYS defeats evil. The flame of life cannot be extinguished. It’s impossible. They call that faith. Your divine soul never dies. Once you realize it, you have a duty to tell others. All it takes is one person. One thought. One step. And the world is changed forever. That’s how easy love conquers fear. That’s how fast good defeats evil. Imagine an army of humans they are truly awake. Truly aware to the scam that we call this modern society. They would move mountains and part seas. They would see that we are just ONE STEP away. One step away from transcending the fear. One step from overcoming the negativity. One step from freedom. You have that power inside you, waiting to be unlocked. You are God expressing himself in human form. You have an eternal flame burning inside you. A divine spark that CANNOT be extinguished. The power to overcome any and all. That power is the divine spark of existence. That power is GOD. You are a super natural being… Wake up and start acting like it.

Nathan Hughes

58,877 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад