Ned Letcher
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where they keep going back
- DataEngBytes2 editions2021–2022
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on a stage with
- Andrew Lonsdaleonce
- Clinton McKinnononce
- Fraser Tweedaleonce
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| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: The craft of building reliable solutions with LLMs | XConf APAC 2025 | Singapore | 2025-10-31 |
LLM prototypes often fail on real data because models are non‑deterministic, can’t count, and have short corruptible memory; reliability requires pruning… | ||
| A quack of all trades: DuckDB, a versatile analytical database to keep in your toolkit | DataEngBytes Melbourne 2024 | 2024-10-01 |
DuckDB is a fast in‑process analytical SQL engine that reads nested CSV/Parquet from S3 or local disk, does projection pushdown and zone‑map skipping, and… | ||
| Data Poker not Data Chess - thinking in Bets for Data Teams | DataEngBytes 2022 | 2022-09-27 |
Argues that strategic data choices are bets, not chess moves, and proposes Spotify’s DIBBs process (Data → Insight → Belief → Bet) as a practical method. Gives… | ||
| Metrics-driven Data Architectures | DataEngBytes 2021 | 2021-10-10 |
Argues that metric sprawl causes rework and bad decisions and that treating metrics as first-class, versioned artifacts fixes it. Surveys concrete tooling: dbt… | ||
| Saturday PM Lightning Talks | PyCon AU 2017 | 2017-08-03 |
Seven-minute rapid-fire demos cover working microPython on FPGA (real hardware and QEMU, $50 boards), a national course with 10,000 students need tutors, a… | ||
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