Yaar Reuveni

VP R&D | Data Engineering Leader. I ❤️ #AI, #BigData #DataWarehouse’s #DataLake’s and all in between. Amateur #astronomer 🪐🔭

[Yaar Reuveni @yaarr]

Our #reinvent sessions were uploaded to YouTube! 😁
1. https://t.co/o50nSx5AnD
2. https://t.co/tHstWQfPOf
3. https://t.co/eQGreRu2ST

#sparksql #EMR #dwh #Serverless #architecture #datalake #amazonS3 #spark #k8s #data #DataScience #ETL

[Andrew Warner @AndrewWarner]

https://t.co/jmQWygzJ6h

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. Lots of people have asked how I use Claude Code, so I wanted to show off my setup a bit.

My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. There is no one correct way to use Claude Code: we intentionally build it in a way that you can use it, customize it, and hack it however you like. Each person on the Claude Code team uses it very differently.

So, here goes.

[Yaar Reuveni @yaarr]

Wow

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Today, we're announcing four new capabilities on the Anthropic API to help developers build more powerful AI agents.

A code execution tool, MCP connector, Files API, and extended prompt caching:

[Yaar Reuveni @yaarr]

This is wild! 😲

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Introducing Claude 3.7 Sonnet: our most intelligent model to date. It's a hybrid reasoning model, producing near-instant responses or extended, step-by-step thinking.

One model, two ways to think.

We’re also releasing an agentic coding tool: Claude Code.

[Naomi @NaomiKriger]

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בשבוע שעבר נפגשנו, קהילת הופכות למפתחות, למפגש בנושא How to Kickstart Your Career.
המפגש הועבר על ידי סיגל ויינר (מעון), מנהלת פיתוח בכירה ב @awscloud ואחת ממנהלות קהילת @Baot_IL , ונערך במשרדי חברת @EleosHealth - החברה בה אני עובדת 🙂
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[Yaar Reuveni @yaarr]

Earlier this week our Amit Spinrad gave an amazing (Hebrew) talk in a Meetup part of MeDS - Medical Data Science Israel community - highly insightful talk about our #ml and about how you can use specialized generative #ai models and #llms in real life #be…https://t.co/LsXMv8gIdz

[Yaar Reuveni @yaarr]

Amazing opportunity!! https://t.co/L7Q7219Yrc

[Yaar Reuveni @yaarr]

We are expanding our DevOps team - looking for a senior DevOps preferably with MLOps experience. Know anyone who might be interested?

Also, reminder our Data engineer position is still open ;)
https://t.co/mZrfxNY8K4

#hiring #devops #mlops #generativeai…https://t.co/7heAfN9QMY

[Yaar Reuveni @yaarr]

Is #chatgpt or #googlebard good for everything? Maybe😉
But sometimes smaller and cheaper models perform great for specific use cases,
As our Amit Spinrad quoted in his new blog post “Jack of all trades master of none“ - inviting y…https://t.co/oxUbAUySsO https://t.co/k9MQapr3Gb

[Gokul Rajaram @gokulr]

How to present

In 2006, I helped @ericschmidt create a deck outlining Google’s strategy, for a presentation Eric was delivering to the company. It taught me a profound lesson on how to present.

When I showed up to my first meeting with Eric, he asked me to visit with every product team at Google, chat with them to figure out what they were working on, and then summarize it on one slide (for each team).

Easy enough, I thought. I would use 3-5 bullet points per slide. Piece of cake. I started mentally mapping things out and got ready to leave.

“But”, Eric said, “I want no words on any slide”.

My well-laid plans disintegrated in an instant. How was I supposed to convey the key messages from each team, without WORDS?

Eric must have seen the panic on my face, and kindly gave me a hint. “Put the text in speaker notes”.

“But what goes on the slides, Eric?” I continued panicking.

That classic, gentle “Eric smile” fluttered on his face. “Why, images, of course!”

“You mean, you want each slide to just be comprised of images?”

“You got it. And use the title wisely. 7-8 words max. Let’s meet in a week to review progress.”

As I left the meeting, little was I to know that this conversation would fundamentally change my view on how to deliver effective presentations.

17 years later, I still cling tightly to the following principles:

1. The larger the audience, the fewer the words on the slide. In Eric’s case, the audience was thousands of employees, so we had 0 words per slide.

2. The title does most of the heavy lifting, which means it cannot be passive. It must be action oriented. Eg: not “Subscriber retention” but “Subscribers continue to be retained strongly” or even better “Net revenue retention continues to be > 100%”.

3. Use memorable images that substantiate and give credence to the words of the title. This image is what will occupy most of the slide area, so you need to spend much of your time thinking about what picture will best get the point (made by the title) across. In some cases, it might be a customer image or logo. in other cases, a graph. In yet other cases, it could be something else entirely. For the Google presentation, one of the images that gave me the most trouble was a slide on Google Search Appliance and other Enterprise products. The title stated that these products were increasingly being used by larger customers. The team didn’t want to share customer logos broadly since some were confidential, so logos were not an option. I decided to go with a trend line on the % of searches from enterprise customers, but the person who was supposed to pull this data for me, flaked at the last minute and I had to scramble. I ended up scrambling to create a mosaic of a bunch of consumer product logos with some kind of icon that denoted large enterprises. Not my finest moment but it got the point across.

4. Use speaker notes. Like Eric said, speaker notes should contain most of the details. It puts a lot of burden on the speaker since they cannot just read off the slides. But this doesn’t deter good speakers, since they prepare dozens of times, and then again.

So there you have it: my 4 principles for delivering compelling presentations to live audiences.

(CAVEAT: If the presentation has to be emailed to an audience who will consume it asynchronously, that’s completely different and has different rules).

How did the 2006 Google strategy presentation turn out, you ask? It went quite well, and later I got a nice thank you note from Eric. I didn’t realize at the time that I should have been the one thanking him for the once-in-a-lifetime learning opportunity.

[Yaar Reuveni @yaarr]

ה chief clinical officer התותחית שלנו @ShiriSharvit התארחה בחדשות כאן לשתף על הקשר בין צ׳אטבוטים וטיפול נפשי! מאד מעניין!

#ai #chatbot #chatgpt #behavioralhealth

[כאן חדשות @kann_news]

תמיד שם בשבילך: האם בינה מלאכותית יכולה גם להעניק סיוע נפשי? הפסיכולוגית שירי שדה שרביט הסבירה ל-@Yoav__Zehavi על היתרונות והחסרונות ב-#העולם_היום

[Yaar Reuveni @yaarr]

@kann_news @Yoav__Zehavi מאד מעניין!

[Yaar Reuveni @yaarr]

Started using #chatGPT to do your work for you?
Be cautious!!

Invite you all to read the excellent post by our @amitspinrad sharing his insightful realization:

https://t.co/1syJwvJj2z

#gpt3 #DSci #ai #ml #dataengineering

[Yaar Reuveni @yaarr]

Dealing with PII or PHI? have lots of personal info you want to de-identify?

Invite you all to read our first post in the @EleosHealth #techblog where Ilan Kahan details how we solved this!

https://t.co/HXJjJ8woG3

#dsci #deidentification #phi #pii #dataengineering #healthcare

[Yaar Reuveni @yaarr]

@therealfitz @ItaiYaffe @sussman Thank you guys for writing this book I really enjoined it!

[Yaar Reuveni @yaarr]

(1/4) #BookRecommendation:
Recently finished reading this excellent tech #leadership book a dear friend of mine (@ItaiYaffe ) brought me as a gift from one of his conference trips, the book is “Debugging Teams” by @therealfitz and @sussman

[Yaar Reuveni @yaarr]

(4/4) you need to begin with a great starter and then consistently nourish and care for it, every new flour you add will absorb what you have already built, the bacteria culture you had in your starter will overtake and you can grow more excellent sourdough and bake amazing bread

[Yaar Reuveni @yaarr]

(3/4) As a taste, I used to grow sourdough from an excellent starter I hunted from a good friend who had been growing his for years, I especially related with the analogy @sussman and @therealfitz made about how growing a great team is like growing sourdough -

[Baot @Baot_IL]

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