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Components of an AI Pipeline
Soggy Titmouse Good architecture has consistent themes that can apply to many different systems. As I'm focusing on AI pipelines, here...
Tim Burns
14 hours ago2 min read
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Dagster Pipelines for the Playlist Data
Brandi Carlile, Dolly Parton, and Tim Hanseroth Context is the notion that we start a conversation, and the context builds as we converse....
Tim Burns
4 days ago2 min read
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A Musical Introduction to RAG
Iceland Airwaves 2023 Retrieval Augmented Generation with SQL Large Language Model (LLM) systems like ChatGPT or Anthropic seem genuinely...
Tim Burns
Mar 202 min read
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Why Kafka
Why Kafka? Kafka, not the author, is a foundational tool that enables a real-time distributed data stack. It's scary to the technically...
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Mar 101 min read
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1984/03/19/the-unbearable-lightness-of-being As a chapter closes, I am opening a new chapter. More...
Tim Burns
Feb 151 min read
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The Road Goes Ever On - My January Leitmotif
The Road Goes Ever On I've always loved both metal and classical music. The first classical album that captured my imagination was Peer...
Tim Burns
Jan 203 min read
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Role-Playing One-Shots Based on Music
Janelle Monae's "The Chase" I'm listening to Janelle Monáe's "The Chase" EP. It is an alter-ego backstory set in a dystopian future of...
Tim Burns
Jan 181 min read
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Adding to the MLFlow Pipeline - Conformal Prediction
As I'm building out my MYFlow pipeline, I'm looking for ML Models that are both interesting and valuable. Conformal Prediction is a hot...
Tim Burns
Jan 41 min read
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Where was I? Oh yeah, MLFlow
The upside to a regular job is a regular paycheck! The downside is that it distracts me from all the interesting things I can solo as a...
Tim Burns
Dec 26, 20242 min read
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The D&D Backstory of the Iconic d20
The Magnificant Icosahedron In Dungeons and Dragons, all characters have backstories. The iconic d20 also has a heroic backstory as a...
Tim Burns
Dec 24, 20243 min read
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Development Team in a Rut? Start with Yourself
I'm in a principal role at my current company, and like every development team, it's easy to get lost in the constant noise of daily...
Tim Burns
Oct 26, 20245 min read
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Data Scraping Tools
Interesting data scraping companies and tools. The internet is a wealth of data, and data scraping is a bit dodgy in terms of how you get...
Tim Burns
Aug 2, 20241 min read
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Filling the Gaps with CAP
Even seasoned architects have gaps in their understanding. After an interesting conversation with fellow data architects, I found a...
Tim Burns
Jul 1, 20241 min read
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Personal Core Work Values
My Zoom Background: A selfie from a beautiful day with my daughter Work is a changing process. I have new tasks, colleagues,...
Tim Burns
Jun 23, 20243 min read
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Juneteenth
On this Juneteenth, remember that the fight against racism keeps going. BLM. I'm not working today, thanks to the hard work of people...
Tim Burns
Jun 19, 20241 min read
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Providence Porchfest '24
Maddie Cardoza at Providence Porchfest '24 Had a wonderful day yesterday at Porchfest.
Tim Burns
Jun 9, 20241 min read
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Summer '24
How many Summers do I have left? Probably not as many as I wish. I feel good that this Summer is packed with concerts, camping,...
Tim Burns
Jun 1, 20241 min read
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Sunrise
Wouldn't it be amazing if there were a mindfulness app to support mindfulness from the point of developers? It's challenging to go from...
Tim Burns
May 25, 20241 min read
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Post-pandemic is a Golden Age for Developers
The author completed a Coursera course on AI while waiting for his laundry. I spent the bulk of my career at a company called “Retail...
Tim Burns
May 12, 20244 min read
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Hiking with the Ghosts of the Quakers
A Quaker Cemetary (Photo by Author) The Quakers have Left their Graves. Quakers immigrated to New England in the mid-1650s, over 300...
Tim Burns
May 4, 20243 min read
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