Lead developer of Splink. Data scientist at Ministry of Justice. Trustee, GiveDirectly UK. Pledgee, https://xitter.cf/t.co/GRyQA85s7n. All views my own.
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Robin Linacre retweeted
Today, @ducklabs_com is joining @awscloud. The move is expected to be completed by early September.
Joining AWS gives DuckLabs the resources and reach to bring DuckDB, DuckLake, and the Quack protocol to many more developers and organizations – and to pursue ideas at a scale that would have been difficult for us to reach alone.
The DuckLabs team will remain together in Amsterdam and will continue working for the Duck Stack community as an AWS subsidiary.
Most importantly, #DuckDB and the other open source components of the Duck Stack will remain free and open source under the MIT license, with the non-profit DuckDB Foundation continuing its stewardship of the projects.
This is a significant moment for DuckLabs and the Duck Stack community. It marks the end of one chapter that we are immensely proud of, and the beginning of another that we believe will take DuckDB much further.
Read the full announcement here: ducklabs.com/ducklabs-is-joi…
#AWS
Robin Linacre retweeted
Quack, quack! A DuckDB v2.0 preview is here! 🦆 🦆⚡
In this post, #DuckDB co-creators Mark Raasveldt and Hannes Mühleisen preview the headline features of DuckDB v2.0 (expected to arrive this autumn):
• DuckDB as a server
• Triggers
• The VARIANT type
• Asynchronous I/O
• A new SQL parser
• A new storage format
• and much more! 🤩
Dive into the details:
duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb…
Robin Linacre retweeted
I never shared my thoughts about coding agents and there is a lot to be said in this topic. Some thoughts:
For most of my life the real cost of building something that solves a hard problem inside a large organization was not always about typing. It was often inventing it in the first place, then coordination. [...] Execution overhead was almost always dwarfed by social overhead. You spent your best energy earning permission to start, and then had to do it again and again just to continue. Coding agents remove this traditional permission system. They benefit some while simultaneously creating unmanageable chaos for others.
Robin Linacre retweeted
We just launched Sites into Codex!
Software creation was always about more than writing code. Sites in Codex fundamentally gives the power of end-to-end software creation to every user, no matter their technical fluency.
These Sites are fully deployed to a URL, private to workspaces, come with authentication, can have static files, and can store dynamic data in databases.
It is in preview for business and enterprise teams and will be rolling out to all workspaces over the next day. Give it a try by typing @ Sites into Codex and ask it to build anything!
This project took a massive amount of effort across hundreds of people at OpenAI - proud that we were able to get this out and excited to see what you all build with it!
Robin Linacre retweeted
During week 2 of AiG Month, you can look forward to:
🔗 "Splink and uk_address_matcher" @MoJGovUK
💷 "Investment for growth - a practitioner's perspective" AiG Award winner Eva Grace
🤖 "Laurium and AI" @MoJGovUK @GORS_UK
🎟 Book now 👉 eventbrite.co.uk/cc/analysis…
Robin Linacre retweeted
An example of UK government being great. Ministry of Justice needed to do messy data linking more quickly and reliably than existing methods. Developed the system. Released it. Now it's used all over the place, including by us at @TheDataCity. It's great! github.com/moj-analytical-se…
Robin Linacre retweeted
If you haven't visited my mrbartonmaths.com website for a while, I have done a Christmas update 👇
Robin Linacre retweeted
Next up is the Innovator Award, supported by @AccentureUK , which goes to the @MoJGovUK Splink Team.
Congratulations!
#CSAwards #ProudCivilServant
Robin Linacre retweeted
New blog post where I explain why I disagree with this, and why I have slightly longer timelines to AGI than many of my guests.
I think continual learning is a huge bottleneck to the usefulness of these models, and extended computer use may take years to sort out.
L-nk below.
Robin Linacre retweeted
In the {BlockingPy} documentation, we have just added an example of how our module can be used with the {splink}. You can find it here: blockingpy.readthedocs.io/en….
Robin Linacre retweeted
pg_duckdb 0.3 was just released! Major features include: Support for using PG indexes, a much easier syntax for querying parquet/csv/iceberg files in blob storage, and last but not least: ✨A shiny new logo✨
Changelog at: github.com/duckdb/pg_duckdb/…
Robin Linacre retweeted
📣 New post in the DuckDB tricks series
These tips can save you precious keystrokes and file scans, making both writing and running your queries faster.
duckdb.org/2024/11/29/duckdb…
Robin Linacre retweeted
I am obsessed with Sparse Autoencoders!
SAEs unpack so much existing value and unlock exciting new capabilities. It's happening in text, images and even proteins.
This is a long thread with lots of links and quote tweets of the projects, articles and code that made me 🤯
Robin Linacre retweeted
MoJ’s pathbreaking SPLINK software is at the heart of our Better Outcomes through Linked Data (BOLD) programme. Together with better use of administrative data, it’s helping us to provide better insights for strategy & planning with our partners across the justice system. (1/2)
Robin Linacre retweeted
New paper: proposed a framework for researcher-data owners to develop & evaluate linkage strategies. Important first step to think about biases in your linked data. Thanks ALSPAC participants!
Read lay summary here:
@Klharron @_andy_boyd @RobinLinacre @ich_ppp
A new step-by-step privacy-focused method for creating synthetic identifier datasets to assist the development and evaluation of data linkage methods is published today in @IJPDS.
READ: ijpds.org/news/01-07-2024-sy…
#syntheticdata #syntheticidentifiers #datalinkage #ALSPAC
Robin Linacre retweeted
Learn more about how data linkage can be used in research! We’re running our Introduction to Data Linkage course online, 17-18th July. Register here: instats.org/seminar/introduc… @adr_uk @ucl_echild @HDR_UK
Robin Linacre retweeted
Ibis 9.0 is out! This wraps up a massive refactor of the internals and a complete adoption for @TobikoData's SQLGlot library for SQL generation! Plus, a ton of new features and bug fixes. Check out the blog: ibis-project.org/posts/ibis-…
Robin Linacre retweeted
You could specify running patterns as part of the installation and design the device to provide a percentage of heat load; you do run the risk of people over-using their boiler. But if you've designed the system properly people who should do so would cost themselves money.
Robin Linacre retweeted
Our member Katie Lamb wrote up a retrospective of our recent @ClimateChangeAI funded project to improve & generalize the record linkage (entity matching) process we use to connect @FERC Form 1 & @EIAgov datas using @RobinLinacre's #Splink:
catalyst.coop/2024/04/15/ent…
