Backstage interview - Jim Dowling
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Jim shared how Hopsworks is empowering enterprises with a full-stack, Kubernetes-native AI platform: from real-time feature stores to optimizing GPU clusters on-prem or in the cloud. Europe’s answer to sovereign AI!
youtu.be/j_FqfNBY8tE%22
26.02.2026 08:30
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Sök lediga jobb i Platsbanken
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We're looking for a marketing leader at Hopsworks, based in Stockholm.
If you have a stellar background and want to join the AI train, consider applying here:
https://www.rfr.bz/b5529ac
10.10.2025 00:12
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At university, there was a maxim that, you could only do 2 of these 3:
study, sleep, party.
As a dad, I experience that I can only ever focus on 2 out of these 3 at any given point in time:
career, good parent, regular exercise.
Is it just me?
25.07.2025 01:09
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Artist's impression of the exoplanet K2-18b.
Credit: A. Smith, University of Cambridge.
𝗡𝗼, 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝟮-𝟭𝟴𝗯'𝘀 𝗮𝘁𝗺𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲.
K2-18b is back in the news, now with a bold claim that biosignature molecules (DMS and/or DMDS) have been 'detected at 3σ'.
Most exoplanet astronomers are extremely sceptical about these claims, let's see why (1/n).
🔭🧪🪐 #exoplanet
17.04.2025 16:08
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6/10. "Build TikTok's Personalized Real-Time Recommendation System in Python with Hopsworks" ⸱ +3k views ⸱ 07 Oct 2024 ⸱ https://youtube.com/watch?v=skZ1HcF7AsM
18.03.2025 19:11
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Show, don't tell - Building Data Pipelines with AI
YouTube video by Hopsworks
This is very cool. Lex and Aleksey show you how you can use an #LLM #assistant to generate code that automatically imports features into the Hopsworks feature store. This makes getting started with the #ai #lakehouse even easier! See youtu.be/wtEPONdKV6Y for another great episode of #showdonttell.
10.02.2025 09:26
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I was pleasantly surprised to see my "From zero to a working ML system with Python, free serverless services + FTI pipelines" talk ranked at 43 in most popular Python talks of 2024.
Talk
https://www.rfr.bz/be18657
Reference:
https://www.rfr.bz/b78475a
25.03.2025 07:09
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I was pleasantly surprised to see my "build Tiktok with Hopsworks" talk ranked at number 6 in most popular Python talks of last year.
TikTok with Hopsworks talk:
https://www.rfr.bz/beb40a4
Source: https://www.rfr.bz/b58c8ae
25.03.2025 03:33
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Foundation Model for Personalized Recommendation
By Ko-Jen Hsiao, Yesu Feng and Sudarshan Lamkhede
This is an interesting dataset and paper by Netflix that in essence says:
"By predicting the next interaction, our foundation model must build an internal model of consumer behavior."
https://www.rfr.bz/b30d8e7
23.03.2025 23:04
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The top 10 fallacies of MLOps
www.hopsworks.ai/post/the-10-...
19.03.2025 07:59
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What tables in the Data Warehouse should be exposed to data scientists to create features from?
The gold layer is aggregated features. If you want to create your own aggregations, you need access to the raw events (bronze or silver layers).
Reference:
https://www.rfr.bz/b793ee3
14.03.2025 06:40
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Hopsworks near the top of hackernews today with an article on how we migrated our serverless platform from AWS to OVH (european cloud company).
14.03.2025 04:43
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JD Vance attacks Europe over free speech and migration
The vice-president's speech at the Munich Security Conference was denounced by several European leaders.
There is a concerted effort to drive a wedge between Europe and the US by the new US Administration.
Apparently we should not be worried about Russia/Ukraine, but free speech and Greta are our big problems. I don't see Europe taking this lying down.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
14.02.2025 20:39
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Congrats on taking the entrepreneurial plunge
21.01.2025 20:28
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Musk's nazi salute was deliberate. He's outflanking Steve Bannon to appeal to the Maga masses. He's afraid he'll lose access to his cash cow, Trump.
21.01.2025 20:22
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x.com
Tesla's proprietary charging infrastructure is now their weak point in Sweden. Massive queues. Unions have stymied rolling out Tesla charging stations. Commodity charging is fine.
As Peter Thiel said "Competition Is for Losers". This is the playbook for how to fight back.
x.com/i/status/187...
13.01.2025 12:50
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Not so subtle dig here from the BBC
"His performance came 12 years later than planned, after he'd originally been forced to pull out through injury after cutting his finger making a sandwich."
02.01.2025 11:11
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I was curious who Andy referred to as screwing over OtterTune. It's ASCII art in the HTML of their announcement that they were winding up.
02.01.2025 11:05
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Depends on what parts of Israel you include.
19.12.2024 16:10
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LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
Good reproducible benchmark study by @coiled.io. I get this question all the time by MLOps folks. What size of workloads can frameworks handle :
* Pandas ~1 GB (this one i added for reference, not in the study)
* Polars ~10 GB
* DuckDB ~100GB to 1TB
* Dask and PySpark up to 10 TB
lnkd.in/dAxUAWC4
19.12.2024 07:53
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I went to fork the repo, but it's name just turned me right off.
Who calls a github repo 'all'?
19.12.2024 06:13
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LLM-Select: Feature Selection with Large Language Models
Feature Importance - with LLMs performs as good as Lasso, mutual information, etc
arxiv.org/html/2407.02...
18.12.2024 06:08
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Mistype. I meant add zk to etcd, and you cover the set of all such datastores that need an external db (typically for correctness during failure or recovery)
16.12.2024 21:48
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You could easily replace etcd with zookeeper and you would cover nearly all such systems :)
16.12.2024 21:10
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I am surprised Confluent haven't taken down their posts. Buy and bury.
16.12.2024 18:12
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I approve this message :)
11.12.2024 05:00
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