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🎙️ Episode Special: Insights from RootsConf – The Data Dialogue Series

Welcome to a special episode of our podcast, direct from the halls of the fifth annual RootsConf, brought to you by Dataroots. This year's conference is buzzing with innovative ideas and cutting-edge tech discussions. We're excited to share with you three thought-provoking interviews with some of the most insightful presenters at the event.

• 🗣️ Exploring the Future with Sophie & Senne: Voice Cloning: Join us as we delve into the fascinating world of voice cloning. Sophie and Senne offer an in-depth look at how this technology is developed and the ethical considerations it brings to the table. It's a blend of technology and responsibility.
• 💻 Navigating Data Integration Challenges with Nick: We switch gears to data integration challenges with Nick, who also shares his triggering perspective on the role of JavaScript in data solutions. But on a more serious note, it's a practical take on the complexities of integrating cutting-edge tech into existing systems.
• 📊 Increasing Dashboard Adoption: Insights from Sophie & Ben: Rounding out our interviews, Sophie and Ben discuss strategies to boost the adoption and effectiveness of data dashboards. They emphasize the importance of making these tools accessible and engaging for a broader audience.

Join us for this special episode where we balance deep tech insights with accessible discussions. Perfect for enthusiasts and professionals alike who are keen to stay ahead in the world of data and technology.

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Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.

Dive into conversations that should flow as smoothly as your morning coffee (but don't), where industry insights meet laid-back banter. Whether you're a data aficionado or just someone curious about the digital age, pull up a chair, relax, and let's get into the heart of data, unplugged style!

In today's episode Murilo & Bart discuss:

AI and Software Insights

• Introducing Gemini: Google's latest AI model
  • Google Blog
  • Fireship Dev Tweet
  • TechCrunch Article on Gemini Demo

Communication and Collaboration in Tech

• 6 tiny wording tweaks to level up your communication as a software engineer
  • Career Cutler

MLOps and Model Development

• Navigating the chaos: why you don’t need another MLOps tool
  • OpenLayer Blog
• ChatGPT's performance on Julia vs. Python and R for LLM Code Generation
  • Stochastic Lifestyle

Emerging Tech and Fun Finds

• JSONB in SQLite
  • SQLite Forum
• Wizard Zines for a touch of geekiness
  • Wizard Zines
• Sports Illustrated's AI author saga
  • The Verge Article
• Monaspace: A superfamily of fonts for code
  • Monaspace

Hot Takes

• Paper: You Want My Password or a Dead Patient?
  • Cohost Article

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Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.

Dive into conversations that should flow as smoothly as your morning coffee (but don't), where industry insights meet laid-back banter. Whether you're a data aficionado or just someone curious about the digital age, pull up a chair, relax, and let's get into the heart of data, unplugged style!

In today's episode, hosts Murilo and Kevin are joined by Tim Van Erum and Frederik Stevens. And discuss the happenings of last week.

OpenAI’s twists and turns

• https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/22/23967223/sam-altman-returns-ceo-open-ai
• https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition
• https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23968829/microsoft-hires-sam-altman-greg-brockman-employees-openai

AI exploits

• https://github.com/protectai/ai-exploits

Sport Analytics / Data Storytelling in Sports

• https://www.nba.com/news/kia-mvp-ladder-nov-24-2023-edition

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Welcome to another engaging episode of Datatopics Unplugged, the podcast where tech and relaxation intersect. Today, we're excited to host two special guests, Paolo and Tim, who bring their unique perspectives to our cozy corner.

Guests of Today

• Paolo: An enthusiast of fantasy and sci-fi reading, Paolo is on a personal mission to reduce his coffee consumption. He has a unique way of measuring his height, at 0.89 Sams tall. With over two and a half years of experience as a data engineer at dataroots, Paolo contributes a rich professional perspective. His hobbies extend to playing field hockey and a preference for the warmer summer season.
• Tim: Occasionally known as Dr. Dunkenstein, Tim brings a mix of humor and insight. He measures his height at 0.87 Sams tall. As the Head of Bizdev, he prefers to steer clear of grand titles, revealing his views on hierarchical structures and monarchies.

Topics

Biz Corner:

• Kyutai: We delve into France's answer to OpenAI with Paolo Leonard, exploring the implications and future of Kyutai: https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/17/kyutai-is-an-french-ai-research-lab-with-a-330-million-budget-that-will-make-everything-open-source/
• GPT-NL: A discussion led by Bart Smeets on the Netherlands' own open language model and its potential impact: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366558412/Netherlands-starts-building-its-own-AI-language-model

Tech Corner:

• Data Quality Insights: A blog post by Paolo on data quality vs. data validation. We'll explore when and why data quality is essential, and evaluate tools like dbt, soda, deequ, and great_expectations: https://dataroots.io/blog/state-of-data-quality-october-2023
• Soda Data Contracts: An overview of the newly released OSS Data Contract Engine by Soda. https://docs.soda.io/soda/data-contracts.html

Food for Thought Corner:

• Hare - A 100-Year Programming Language: Bart starts a discussion on the ambition of Hare to remain relevant for a century: https://harelang.org/blog/2023-11-08-100-year-language/.

Join us for this mix of expert insights and light-hearted moments. Whether you're deeply embedded in the tech world or just dipping your toes in, this episode promises to be both informative and entertaining!

And, yes. There is a voucher, go to dataroots.io and navigate to the shop (top right) and use voucher code murilos_bargain_blast for a 25EUR discount!

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Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.

Dive into conversations that should flow as smoothly as your morning coffee (but don't), where industry insights meet laid-back banter. Whether you're a data aficionado or just someone curious about the digital age, pull up a chair, relax, and let's get into the heart of data, unplugged style!

In today's episode:

Biz corner

• AI regulation race 
  • https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/what-the-executive-order-means-for
  • https://www.ft.com/content/e0574e79-d723-4d94-9681-fae22648e3ad
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/25/artificial-intelligence-executive-order-biden/
  • https://www.wired.com/story/joe-biden-wants-us-government-algorithms-tested-for-potential-harm-against-citizens

Tech corner

• Adoption of the business source license (BSL)
  • https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license
  • https://www.getdbt.com/blog/licensing-dbt
  • https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-mariadb/
  • https://github.com/MaterializeInc/materialize/blob/main/LICENSE
• Companies responding to HashiCorp's move to BSL
  • https://spacelift.io/blog/spacelift-latest-statement-on-hashicorp-bsl
• OpenTofu & HashiCorp's OSS work
  • https://opentofu.org/
  • https://medium.com/@andrewhertog/contributing-to-terraform-vs-opentofu-26779d480c7f?sk=5343d4a76b390833af621905c858777b
• Cyber Resilience Act might kill open-source altogether
  • https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/understanding-the-cyber-resilience-act
  • https://github.blog/2023-07-12-no-cyber-resilience-without-open-source-sustainability/
  • https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:52022PC0454
• OSS companies - is it a sustainable way of doing open source?
  • https://bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.0
  • https://astral.sh/
  • https://pydantic.dev/
  • https://duckdblabs.com/
• We haven't figured out OSS sustainability yet, but the BSL comes close.
  • https://curl.se/docs/security.html
  • https://xkcd.com/2347/

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Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.

Dive into conversations that should flow as smoothly as your morning coffee (but don't), where industry insights meet laid-back banter. Whether you're a data aficionado or just someone curious about the digital age, pull up a chair, relax, and let's get into the heart of data, unplugged style!

In today's episode:

• The Ruff Formatter
  • Ruff now has a black-compatible formatter
  • https://astral.sh/blog/the-ruff-formatter
• PEP 703 – Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython
  • Proposal for optionally removing the GIL (in Python 3.13)
  • https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/
• Hey, Computer, Make Me a Font
  • AI-generated fonts
  • https://serce.me/posts/02-10-2023-hey-computer-make-me-a-font

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• Microsoft announces Python for Excel
  • Announcing Python in Excel: Combining the power of Python and the flexibility of Excel.
  • https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/announcing-python-in-excel-combining-the-power-of-python-and-the/ba-p/3893439
• AI-powered Coca Cola
  • Coca‑Cola® Creations Imagines Year 3000 With New Futuristic Flavor and AI-Powered Experience
  • https://www.coca-colacompany.com/media-center/coca-cola-creations-imagines-year-3000-futuristic-flavor-ai-powered-experience
• 40% productivity boost from AI, according to Harvard
  • Enterprise workers gain 40 percent performance boost from GPT-4, Harvard study finds
  • https://venturebeat.com/ai/enterprise-workers-gain-40-percent-performance-boost-from[…]ewsletter&utm_campaign=ibm-pledges-to-train-two-million-in-ai
• Microsoft’s Copilot announcement
  • Announcing Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion
  • https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/09/21/announcing-microsoft-copilot-your-everyday-ai-companion/
• v0 - AI-powered react components
  • What is v0?
  • https://v0.dev/faq#what-is-v0
• Microsoft looking for a nuclear energy expert
  • Microsoft is hiring a nuclear energy expert to help power its AI and cloud data centers
  • https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/25/microsoft-is-hiring-a-nuclear-energy-expert-to-help-power-data-centers.html

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Datatopics is a podcast presented by Kevin Missoorten to talk about the fuzzy and misunderstood concepts in the world of data, analytics, and AI and get to the bottom of things.

In this episode, together with expert guests Jeroen, Guillaume and our own Murilo, we dive deep into the fascinating world of Edge AI. Where “traditional” AI models can be accessed remotely they often run centrally on a cloud instance, but what do you do when you need an immediate response, or when you don’t want the data to be sent or don’t always have connection? In that case you can use ‘smaller’ models deployed on a device, this is called Edge AI. Edge AI can bring many benefits but there are still some challenges as well.

Tune in to DataTopics to hear our take on Edge AI, what business value it can bring, where it is today and where we see it evolve to next!

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Datatopics is a podcast presented by Kevin Missoorten to talk about the fuzzy and misunderstood concepts in the world of data, analytics, and AI and get to the bottom of things.

In this episode, together with guests Berg and Tim, we dive deep into the fascinating world of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

The AI applications we see today are often referred to as “narrow AI” (ANI), basically excellent at performing one task and one task only. AGI or Strong AI, refers to the hypothetical intelligence of a machine that exhibits the ability to understand, learn, and apply knowledge in a way comparable to a human being. 

But how do we define “comparable to a human being”? Which human being? Are there other definitions? How do topics like alignment and singularity come into the picture? How can we contribute to making sure when we reach this state, we are able to harness this capability? Do we need a moratorium? 

Tune in to DataTopics to hear our discussion on these topics and more!

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Datatopics is a podcast presented by Kevin Missoorten to talk about the fuzzy and misunderstood concepts in the world of data, analytics, and AI and get to the bottom of things.

In another thought-provoking episode of the Datatopics podcast we embark on a captivating exploration of data monetization. Join us as we gather two distinguished guests, Bart Hamers, head of the center of expertise of analytics and AI at a large bank, and Ben Mellaerts, a dataroots data strategist with Dataroots, to untangle the complex web of generating value from data.

Throughout the episode, together we engage in a though debate, attempting to pinpoint the true essence of data monetization. Addressing common misconceptions, explore the challenges and opportunities associated with data monetization, today and in an ever increasing digital world.

Is data monetization limited to opportunities to sell data or data products or is it more? If so, does this word bring any added value to our lives? (pun intended) How does data privacy fit in? Tune in for our perspective to these and many more questions!

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