Serhii Sokolenko 🇺🇦

Angel investor in data+ai platforms, startup founder. Loves Data, Coffee, and Spy Thrillers. Find me on BlueSky.

[Serhii Sokolenko 🇺🇦 @datancoffee]

AI coding assistants 🤖 like Cursor are not the 10x productivity boosters for data engineers and not their replacements, as some talking heads claim. But they can be 10x multipliers for another group of folks - the 😎 customers of 👷 data engineers!
https://t.co/2xZgutwBRO

[Serhii Sokolenko 🇺🇦 @datancoffee]

How do you run 🐍 Python apps on Iceberg tables without going bonkers settings up infrastructure ⁉️

That's how:
1️⃣ Sign up for https://t.co/yGkGWONQb7
2️⃣ Take your Python script and turn it into a Tower app
3️⃣ Run this app on Tower

https://t.co/mZR5ZZVtOa

[Serhii Sokolenko 🇺🇦 @datancoffee]

Take a read of this 1️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣ step-by-step guide for setting up an Iceberg catalog using Snowflake Open Catalog.

🗓️ Tomorrow's post will be about using 🧸 Polars & 💘 PyArrow to write/query an open ⛴️ lakehouse using the said Iceberg catalog!

https://t.co/70GiEcMDfV

[Serhii Sokolenko 🇺🇦 @datancoffee]

I am building an open lakehouse with S3 and Python and looked at managed and unmanaged Iceberg catalogs: ❄️ Snowflake ☃️ Polaris 🔥 Gravitino 🚣‍♀️ Lakekeeper 🤝 Unity 🙏 Glue 🦈 Dremio & Nessie 🖐 Hive.

Verdict: Snowflake Open Catalog won (this time)
https://t.co/C5WavRA7bJ

[Serhii Sokolenko 🇺🇦 @datancoffee]

The scandal at Kaggle: 5 hard-won lessons from a brutal ML competition https://t.co/Zra2pcMhnW

[Serhii Sokolenko 🇺🇦 @datancoffee]

It's easier to do it "by usi"

[Serhii Sokolenko 🇺🇦 @datancoffee]

Is there a better way to get best results from AI models than buying a bigger and meaner AI model? Some say the answer is "Compound AI Systems"? What do you say?
https://t.co/jHT7eP5V82

[Serhii Sokolenko 🇺🇦 @datancoffee]

Testing https://t.co/aD2um2MEDd

[Serhii Sokolenko 🇺🇦 @datancoffee]

♥️ Czechia

[Jakub Janda 楊雅嚳 @_JakubJanda]

We are no fucking “small ex-Soviet satellite”.

We are Czechia, a proud 10-million country whose President does phone calls with President of Taiwan and we just got about a million artillery shells to Ukrainian defenders while Germany and France do a pissing contest over egos.

[Serhii Sokolenko 🇺🇦 @datancoffee]

The ducks are everywhere, even on Madeira, @thetinot @jrdntgn !

[Serhii Sokolenko 🇺🇦 @datancoffee]

Thank you, Europe. We will win together.

[Charles Michel @CharlesMichel]

The European Council has decided to open accession negotiations with Ukraine & Moldova.

#EUCO granted candidate status to Georgia. And the EU will open negotiations with Bosnia and Herzegovina once the necessary degree of compliance with the membership criteria is reached and has invited the commission to report by March with a view to taking such a decision.

A clear signal of hope for their people and for our continent.

[Serhii Sokolenko 🇺🇦 @datancoffee]

Change streams for the win!

[Olena Kutsenko @OlenaKutsenko]

Look whom I met in snowy Berlin yesterday! @gunnarmorling, you should visit us more often!

[Serhii Sokolenko 🇺🇦 @datancoffee]

@thetinot @pdrmnvd Manage projects, no?

[Serhii Sokolenko 🇺🇦 @datancoffee]

Canadians, opinions?

[Serhii Sokolenko 🇺🇦 @datancoffee]

Totally. This is how BigSearch became BigQuery.

[Serhii Sokolenko 🇺🇦 @datancoffee]

@matthausk Went there this year, or just stumbled upon it?

[Serhii Sokolenko 🇺🇦 @datancoffee]

Hey @thetinot i found out who you were replaced with

[Dan Toomey @dhtoomey]

Today I got a call inviting me to consider a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to become the interim CEO of @OpenAI. After consulting with my family and reflecting on it for just a few seconds, I accepted. It was crazy. They literally called me and were like "who is this?" And I was like "ha ha, what?" And then they gave me the job and hung up. I took the gig because, due to the birth of my triplets this morning (true story), I need all the cash I can get. Seriously. I'm fucked for money. All three of these kids expect to go to private school and one of them is named Elliot so you know he can't be poor. Anywhoo, I took this job because I have absolutely no idea what AI does. I dont even know where our offices are. My plans are to drive through the wall of an Apple store and start giving orders to the first nerd I can smell. I told the board all of this. They know what I'm about. They also know that I'm certifiably insane, casually (CASUALLY!!) smoke meth and don't know what the GPT stands for in that Chatbot Siri thing we have. When they heard this, the board gave me a raise and some free meth. What a deal! Ultimately, I plan to step down this evening. Thanks, all.

[Serhii Sokolenko 🇺🇦 @datancoffee]

Looking forward to working with you and Greg and Ilya on the new, rejuvenated board.

[Tino Tereshko 🇺🇦 @thetinot]

I'm pleased to announce that I have also been asked to become and have accepted the role of the interim CEO of OpenAI

[Serhii Sokolenko 🇺🇦 @datancoffee]

From the mouth of the founder of @duckdb Hannes : "Processes are the best containers. But someone needs to solve loading libraries."

[Serhii Sokolenko 🇺🇦 @datancoffee]

#duckdb select https://t.co/n4YoGSPMYL_url, pages.parent_url from read_website("https://t.co/ZTmRMnMtgx")