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Why write SQL queries when you can get an LLM to write the code for you? Query NFL data using querychat, a new chatbot component that works with the Shiny web framework and is compatible with R and ...
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I read online that in PyArrow a string column would have a column-level size limit of 2GB. However, in my work I noticed this doesn't hold. def some_function( self, raw_table: pa.Table, ): schema = ...
A hunter shooting a gun to kill a python? Forbidden. What about freezing the snake to kill it? Prohibited. A python run over by a car? Not allowed. These types of killings have happened before, though ...