Send us a text Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society. Dive into conversations that should flow as smoothly as your morning coffee (but don't), where industry insights meet laid-back banter. Whether you're a data aficionado or just someone curious about the digital age, pull up a chair, relax, and let's get into the heart of data, unplugged style!

In this episode, we're thrilled to have special guest Mehdi Ouazza  diving into a plethora of hot tech topics: Mehdi Ouazza's Insights into his career, online community and working with DuckDB and MotherDuck.Demystifying DevRel: Definitions and distinctions in the realm of tech influence (dive deeper here).Terraform's Licensing Shift: Reactions to HashiCorp's recent changes and its new IBM collaboration, more details here.Github Copilot Workspace: Exploring the latest in AI-powered coding assistance, comparing with devin.ai and CodySnowflake's Arctic LLM: Discussing the latest enterprise AI capabilities and their real-world applications. Read more about Arctic - what it excels at, and how its performance was measuredMore legal kerfuffle in the GenAI realm: The ongoing legal debates around AI's use in creative industries, highlighted by a dispute over Drake’s use of late rapper Tupac’s AI-generated voice in diss track & the licensing deal between Financial Times and OpenAIFuture of Data Engineering: Examining the integration of LLMs into data engineering tools. Insights on prompt-based feature engineering and Databricks' English SDKAI in Music Creation: A little bonus with an AI generated song about Murilo, created with Suno

Send us a text Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.

Dive into conversations that should flow as smoothly as your morning coffee (but don't), where industry insights meet laid-back banter. Whether you're a data aficionado or just someone curious about the digital age, pull up a chair, relax, and let's get into the heart of data, unplugged style!

In this episode, we're joined by special guest Vitale Sparacello, an MLflow Ambassador, to delve into a myriad of topics shaping the current and future landscape of AI and software development: MLflow Deep Dive: Exploring the MLflow Ambassador program, MLflow's role in promoting MLOps practices, and its expansion to support generative AI technologies.Introducing Llama 3: Discussing Meta's newest language model, Llama 3, its capabilities, and the nuanced policy of its distribution, featured on platforms like Groq. Read more here.Emerging AI Tools: Evaluating Open-Parse for advanced text parsing and debating the longevity of PDF documents in the age of advanced AI technologies.OpenTofu vs. Terraform Drama: Analyzing the ongoing legal dispute between Terraform and OpenTofu, with discussions around code ethics and links to OpenTofu's LinkedIn, and their official blog response.The Future of AI Devices: Are smartphones the endgame, or is there a future for specialized AI wearables? Speculating on the evolution of AI devices, focusing on the Human AI Pin review, Rabbit R1 and Dot Computer Go check out the Youtube video after so you don't miss out Murilo in that suit he promised (with a duck tie of course).

Send us a text Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society. Dive into conversations that should flow as smoothly as your morning coffee (but don't), where industry insights meet laid-back banter. Whether you're a data aficionado or just someone curious about the digital age, pull up a chair, relax, and let's get into the heart of data, unplugged style! In today's episode: Biz corner AI regulation race https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/what-the-executive-order-means-forhttps://www.ft.com/content/e0574e79-d723-4d94-9681-fae22648e3adhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/25/artificial-intelligence-executive-order-biden/https://www.wired.com/story/joe-biden-wants-us-government-algorithms-tested-for-potential-harm-against-citizensTech corner Adoption of the business source license (BSL)https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-licensehttps://www.getdbt.com/blog/licensing-dbthttps://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-mariadb/https://github.com/MaterializeInc/materialize/blob/main/LICENSECompanies responding to HashiCorp's move to BSLhttps://spacelift.io/blog/spacelift-latest-statement-on-hashicorp-bslOpenTofu & HashiCorp's OSS workhttps://opentofu.org/https://medium.com/@andrewhertog/contributing-to-terraform-vs-opentofu-26779d480c7f?sk=5343d4a76b390833af621905c858777bCyber Resilience Act might kill open-source altogetherhttps://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/understanding-the-cyber-resilience-acthttps://github.blog/2023-07-12-no-cyber-resilience-without-open-source-sustainability/https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:52022PC0454OSS companies - is it a sustainable way of doing open source?https://bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.0https://astral.sh/https://pydantic.dev/https://duckdblabs.com/We haven't figured out OSS sustainability yet, but the BSL comes close.https://curl.se/docs/security.htmlhttps://xkcd.com/2347/Intro music courtesy of fesliyanst