- ICYMI with a quick screenshot as sales pitch. Simply feed your estimation a bunch of .parquet files on disk and run it as normal. This example takes 180m rows of NYC taxi data and computes the model in < 1 second. On a laptop.
- Things are grim. But in more frivolous news... @jamesbrandecon.bsky.social and I have been chipping away at `dbreg`, a 📦 for running big regression models on database backends. For the right kinds of problems, the speed-ups are near magical. Website: grantmcdermott.com/dbreg/ #rstats [1/2]
- Amazing. I remember when we discovered @duckdb.org and discussed it, maybe @koren.mk or @julianhi.nz said stg like this could be done. But stunned by speed.
