Babak Tourani
@babak-t.bsky.social
Father to Lilly the Ragdoll | a nonbeliever in humans or Gods | Minimalism is my drug, especially in audio form | I deal with databases and data tools for money | former TV/Radio presenter & Basketball coach | have been figuring it out for a very long time
I love the CVs of hyped up Data and Analytics influencers.
This person's first job title: "Sr. Project Lead!"
Hasn't done anything before that and then **boom** "Senior Project Lead".
Also, has been a "Chief AI officer" in 2018!
Now, a keynote speaker at a local conference near you!
This person's first job title: "Sr. Project Lead!"
Hasn't done anything before that and then **boom** "Senior Project Lead".
Also, has been a "Chief AI officer" in 2018!
Now, a keynote speaker at a local conference near you!
May 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I love the CVs of hyped up Data and Analytics influencers.
This person's first job title: "Sr. Project Lead!"
Hasn't done anything before that and then **boom** "Senior Project Lead".
Also, has been a "Chief AI officer" in 2018!
Now, a keynote speaker at a local conference near you!
This person's first job title: "Sr. Project Lead!"
Hasn't done anything before that and then **boom** "Senior Project Lead".
Also, has been a "Chief AI officer" in 2018!
Now, a keynote speaker at a local conference near you!
If you are into streaming and stream processing, today is the best day for finding free data: the unbounded stream of bollocks transmitted by TV commentators on Pope Francis' funeral is one of a kind! One called it a spectacle! None of them seem to have EVER watched footage of UN's general assembly!
April 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
If you are into streaming and stream processing, today is the best day for finding free data: the unbounded stream of bollocks transmitted by TV commentators on Pope Francis' funeral is one of a kind! One called it a spectacle! None of them seem to have EVER watched footage of UN's general assembly!
This is unbelievable, really. The pace of innovation in this tool is amazing. #dataSky #DuckDB
duckdb.org/2025/03/12/d...
duckdb.org/2025/03/12/d...
The DuckDB Local UI
The DuckDB team and MotherDuck are excited to announce the release of a local UI for DuckDB shipped as part of the ui extension.
duckdb.org
March 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This is unbelievable, really. The pace of innovation in this tool is amazing. #dataSky #DuckDB
duckdb.org/2025/03/12/d...
duckdb.org/2025/03/12/d...
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Reposted by Babak Tourani
Study for FREE on my online course site. There is already a collection of stuff there to get you started and we are looking to EXPAND on that free learning content this year.
Take a look, and stay in the loop for more valuable learning resources ➡️ courses.cd.training
Take a look, and stay in the loop for more valuable learning resources ➡️ courses.cd.training
March 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Study for FREE on my online course site. There is already a collection of stuff there to get you started and we are looking to EXPAND on that free learning content this year.
Take a look, and stay in the loop for more valuable learning resources ➡️ courses.cd.training
Take a look, and stay in the loop for more valuable learning resources ➡️ courses.cd.training
The most heartwarming scene I've come across in a while: coming back from gym in West London, I saw a group of young folks gathered on the side of A40(West) opposite a #Tesla dealership and service center in Park Royal area, carrying "Boycott Tesla" signs! #KickElonMuskInTheBalls #FuckTesla
March 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The most heartwarming scene I've come across in a while: coming back from gym in West London, I saw a group of young folks gathered on the side of A40(West) opposite a #Tesla dealership and service center in Park Royal area, carrying "Boycott Tesla" signs! #KickElonMuskInTheBalls #FuckTesla
#Spotify is cancelled and #Tidal is started. Same cost, same catalog, [much] better sound quality, fair to artists.
The move was celebrated by "onboarding" a Wiim Ultra which now feeds the capable DAC on my Cambridge Audio CXa81 amp through USB. :) #musicFirstAudiophile #musicAboveAll
The move was celebrated by "onboarding" a Wiim Ultra which now feeds the capable DAC on my Cambridge Audio CXa81 amp through USB. :) #musicFirstAudiophile #musicAboveAll
March 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
#Spotify is cancelled and #Tidal is started. Same cost, same catalog, [much] better sound quality, fair to artists.
The move was celebrated by "onboarding" a Wiim Ultra which now feeds the capable DAC on my Cambridge Audio CXa81 amp through USB. :) #musicFirstAudiophile #musicAboveAll
The move was celebrated by "onboarding" a Wiim Ultra which now feeds the capable DAC on my Cambridge Audio CXa81 amp through USB. :) #musicFirstAudiophile #musicAboveAll
Reposted by Babak Tourani
Breaking: surge in global productivity now that Slack is down.
February 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Breaking: surge in global productivity now that Slack is down.
Have I been unlucky or the number of competent #software developers who understand software #architecture, system architecture AND database modelling is REALLY low?!
So many “Dr Bob”s around that (like the man himself) never realised that #databases are more than a bit bucket…
So many “Dr Bob”s around that (like the man himself) never realised that #databases are more than a bit bucket…
February 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Have I been unlucky or the number of competent #software developers who understand software #architecture, system architecture AND database modelling is REALLY low?!
So many “Dr Bob”s around that (like the man himself) never realised that #databases are more than a bit bucket…
So many “Dr Bob”s around that (like the man himself) never realised that #databases are more than a bit bucket…
If one genuinely believed in the power of prayers, one would have refused any medical help and would have left the hospital.
February 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
If one genuinely believed in the power of prayers, one would have refused any medical help and would have left the hospital.
My obsession with #minimalism, #GavinHarrison, and #PorcupineTree aside, there's so much to learn for #software engineers here, as much as musicians:
"[It] doesn't have to be complicated for the hell of it!"
#musicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDge...
"[It] doesn't have to be complicated for the hell of it!"
#musicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDge...
8 (Spotlight) Gavin Harrison - Overriding
YouTube video by DrumsetMag DrumsetMag
www.youtube.com
February 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
My obsession with #minimalism, #GavinHarrison, and #PorcupineTree aside, there's so much to learn for #software engineers here, as much as musicians:
"[It] doesn't have to be complicated for the hell of it!"
#musicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDge...
"[It] doesn't have to be complicated for the hell of it!"
#musicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDge...
Humans are stupid!
We look at tiny creatures (in relative terms) and call them cute and associate innocence with them.
“Ravens are not innocent but sparrows are.”
We are sparrows compared to elephants and we have killers and psychopath criminals in our species.
Why would sparrows be different?!
We look at tiny creatures (in relative terms) and call them cute and associate innocence with them.
“Ravens are not innocent but sparrows are.”
We are sparrows compared to elephants and we have killers and psychopath criminals in our species.
Why would sparrows be different?!
February 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Humans are stupid!
We look at tiny creatures (in relative terms) and call them cute and associate innocence with them.
“Ravens are not innocent but sparrows are.”
We are sparrows compared to elephants and we have killers and psychopath criminals in our species.
Why would sparrows be different?!
We look at tiny creatures (in relative terms) and call them cute and associate innocence with them.
“Ravens are not innocent but sparrows are.”
We are sparrows compared to elephants and we have killers and psychopath criminals in our species.
Why would sparrows be different?!
On #Snowflake: The EDA query on a 3.1 TBs table with 19B+ records (200 cols) with a predicate on a very high cardinality column (obviously not used for clustering) takes tens of minutes on Small WH.
Rejected Request: S -> X-Large!
Enabled Search Optimization on the predicate column => 5 secs!
Rejected Request: S -> X-Large!
Enabled Search Optimization on the predicate column => 5 secs!
February 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
On #Snowflake: The EDA query on a 3.1 TBs table with 19B+ records (200 cols) with a predicate on a very high cardinality column (obviously not used for clustering) takes tens of minutes on Small WH.
Rejected Request: S -> X-Large!
Enabled Search Optimization on the predicate column => 5 secs!
Rejected Request: S -> X-Large!
Enabled Search Optimization on the predicate column => 5 secs!
The #Severance is Ben Stiller's (very successful) attempt to redeem himself. The whole series is more about Arts than TV: The scenery, cinematography, color branding, locations, ....
I was so happy to see a decent analysis of the mesmerising opening scene's music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqYo...
I was so happy to see a decent analysis of the mesmerising opening scene's music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqYo...
Why Is Everyone Talking About This Show’s Music?
YouTube video by Rick Beato
www.youtube.com
February 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The #Severance is Ben Stiller's (very successful) attempt to redeem himself. The whole series is more about Arts than TV: The scenery, cinematography, color branding, locations, ....
I was so happy to see a decent analysis of the mesmerising opening scene's music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqYo...
I was so happy to see a decent analysis of the mesmerising opening scene's music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqYo...
How can you make a #metric layer tool effective, if you don't physically cut the access to your data warehouse?! If your analysts have access to both (let's say) #Cube AND the data warehouse and can choose either for building their report/visualisation, how can you prevent metric sprawl?! #datasky
February 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Their unfamiliar sound unearths weird feelings from the soil of my culturally-homeless-middle-eastern-living-in-London brain... VERY weird feelings... #Leenalchi #Music #Korean #alternative
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXWj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXWj...
이날치 LEENALCHI - 진흙의 신 God Of Mud [Official M/V]
YouTube video by LEENALCHI
www.youtube.com
February 9, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Their unfamiliar sound unearths weird feelings from the soil of my culturally-homeless-middle-eastern-living-in-London brain... VERY weird feelings... #Leenalchi #Music #Korean #alternative
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXWj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXWj...
1. Americans don't regurgitate art. They're not competent or talented enough to do that. They eat it and produce shit. #Utopia is a great example.
2. What's the point of #music if it's not different and has no impact?!
#CristobalTapiaDeVeer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTuf...
2. What's the point of #music if it's not different and has no impact?!
#CristobalTapiaDeVeer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTuf...
Utopia Overture
YouTube video by Cristobal Tapia de Veer - Topic
www.youtube.com
February 9, 2025 at 11:27 AM
1. Americans don't regurgitate art. They're not competent or talented enough to do that. They eat it and produce shit. #Utopia is a great example.
2. What's the point of #music if it's not different and has no impact?!
#CristobalTapiaDeVeer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTuf...
2. What's the point of #music if it's not different and has no impact?!
#CristobalTapiaDeVeer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTuf...
#OpenAI complaining about "its data being misappropriated" reminded me of this very interesting #Freakonomics interview about how @ravenben.bsky.social and his team are trying to defend artists against OpenAI & others "misappropriating" their work and data. #datasky
freakonomics.com/podcast/how-...
freakonomics.com/podcast/how-...
How to Poison the A.I. Machine - Freakonomics
How to Poison the A.I. Machine - Freakonomics
freakonomics.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
#OpenAI complaining about "its data being misappropriated" reminded me of this very interesting #Freakonomics interview about how @ravenben.bsky.social and his team are trying to defend artists against OpenAI & others "misappropriating" their work and data. #datasky
freakonomics.com/podcast/how-...
freakonomics.com/podcast/how-...
"OpenAI have stated that they believe #DeepSeek may have misappropriated large amounts of data from them."
The great thing is that #OpenAI has NEVER "misappropriated large amounts of data" from anyone!
#DearSamAltmanPleaseFuckOff #Hypocrisy
The great thing is that #OpenAI has NEVER "misappropriated large amounts of data" from anyone!
#DearSamAltmanPleaseFuckOff #Hypocrisy
January 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"OpenAI have stated that they believe #DeepSeek may have misappropriated large amounts of data from them."
The great thing is that #OpenAI has NEVER "misappropriated large amounts of data" from anyone!
#DearSamAltmanPleaseFuckOff #Hypocrisy
The great thing is that #OpenAI has NEVER "misappropriated large amounts of data" from anyone!
#DearSamAltmanPleaseFuckOff #Hypocrisy
What could justify storing date/time in a #database as an epoch? Not only do you make the data less accessible, but you also deprive the optimizer of your database of the ability to estimate the cardinality of the results correctly, if the epoch column is referenced in a predicate. #datasky
January 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Last week in review: optimized performance of two DAGs by converting CTEs to Temp tables in #Snowflake and achieved 7-10X improvement in execution time!
In one case SF couldn't do predicate pushdown in joins correctly so we pushed down the predicates for Snowflake through the temp table! #SQL
In one case SF couldn't do predicate pushdown in joins correctly so we pushed down the predicates for Snowflake through the temp table! #SQL
January 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Last week in review: optimized performance of two DAGs by converting CTEs to Temp tables in #Snowflake and achieved 7-10X improvement in execution time!
In one case SF couldn't do predicate pushdown in joins correctly so we pushed down the predicates for Snowflake through the temp table! #SQL
In one case SF couldn't do predicate pushdown in joins correctly so we pushed down the predicates for Snowflake through the temp table! #SQL
If you're using an orchestrator like #Airflow or #Dagster and your workload isn't anchored to the concept of "logical date" (or time partitions in Dagster) then why are you even using those?!
#DataEngineering #DataPipeline
#DataEngineering #DataPipeline
January 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
If you're using an orchestrator like #Airflow or #Dagster and your workload isn't anchored to the concept of "logical date" (or time partitions in Dagster) then why are you even using those?!
#DataEngineering #DataPipeline
#DataEngineering #DataPipeline
Will I ever become as fierce as my daughter?!
January 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Will I ever become as fierce as my daughter?!