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The author of this substack essay doesn't understand how things work

Might not be fast, but sure isn't durable

No need for that, you get the settlement as long as your information was compromised

Spark is not too tricky to dive into, even though you can't really take advantage unless you have a big cluster to use :)

if you want to practice data-manipulation, and a lot of the map reduce type stuff you can do with spark, I find Pandas useful for small datasets (And a lot of overlap in functionality as far as Dataframes are concerned)

For pipeline stuff, definitely take a look at Luigi, but again without a cluster it'll be less fun. Still, if you can try automating tasks with a mini luigi scheduler on your localhost, it would be good practice

This is a really interesting initiative! Thanks for sharing! Was there anything surprising you all found? Have you had a lot of feedback from underrepresented groups?

Thinkpad x260 is pretty good, I get at least six (with heavy use), but you can also get an extension for double I think

Huh. Makes me miss php