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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

Databricks CEO: “we’ve already achieved AGI fam, the haters just keep moving the goalposts”

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

WTF are databricks? LLM feces?

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

I looked it up.

boring answer

the company is a data analytics platform. According to wikipedia they promote the model of a “data lakehouse”, a hydrid of a “data lake” and a “data warehouse”. I don’t know what any of this means

Sneer answer: 100% LLM feces. Databricks puts the anal in analytics

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

So data lake and data warehouse are different words for the giant databases of business data that you can perform analytics on to understand your deep business lore or whatever. I assume that a data lake house is similar to the other two but poorly maintained and inconvenient to access, but with a very nice UI and a boat dock.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 8 hours ago

I’m pretty sure a data lakehouse is a database where if you insert data in it, it only appears two years later/earlier, and if you try to read from it, all the entries come from two years in the future/past. It’s very prone to predestination issues but can help with finding love

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