Sean Michael Kerner
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Sean Michael Kerner
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The 'Ouroboros problem' of AI evaluation that Databricks Judge Builder might just solve...with a little help from humans (yay humans!)

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Snowflake has a lot of news out today at its BUILD conference..but it is one piece of news in particular that I think will make all the difference.

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I've had the good fortune to connect with David Belson on internet topics a bunch over the years. At Cloudflare he's now been working on some new insights on Top Level Domains and there are more than few surprises in the findings...

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What's the most malicious TLD? Cloudflare reveals surprising risks, usage patterns
Cloudflare identifies high-risk top-level domains, with .motorcycles ranking No. 1 among the most abused TLDs.
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I've been a believer in streaming data for a long time...but so much of the AI-data conversation has been about static data. That's now changing and real-time data streaming that bakes in Apache Kafka and Apache Flink from Confluent is bringing the context.

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There is still some hesitation about AI - but Intuit is figuring out how to work the way its users want to work.

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AI is supposed to give humans less work and make things easier...right? Maybe not according to some new research from Snowflake that 77% say their data engineering teams' workloads are getting heavier, not lighter.

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One of the big missing links in the AI ecosystem has been the availability of a large high-quality open-source multimodal dataset. That changes today with the debut of the EMM-1 dataset
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Enterprises expanding AI deployments are hitting an invisible performance wall. The culprit? Static speculators that can't keep up with shifting workloads. The answer would be a new type of self-adaptive system.
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New research released today from Databricks shows how its GEPA (Generative Evolutionary Prompt Adaptation) technique improves prompt optimization by an order of magnitude.

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Microsoft Fabric is now in use by 80% of the Fortune 500 and now it's getting even more powerful with graph database tech.

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Sure you can do QA for AI code inside of AI tools, but do you trust it? There are a lot of tools for doing AI code review, including CodeRabbit. How do you choose and figure out what's best?
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I set up my first Oracle database in the late 1980's and here we are in 2025 and the company today is more relevant than ever before and AI is a big reason.

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Airflow isn't the only open-source data orchestration platform...Kestra 1.0 just dropped and it's taking a declarative approach at changing enterprise data workflows.

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A Joyous Skynet Day, my AI colleagues.