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What Does Apache Arrow Unlock for Analytics? (w/ Wes McKinney)

The Analytics Engineering Podcast

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What Kind of Fueled You in Those Four-Ish Years?

Pandas is a free, open-source database that's been around since the 1990s. It can be used to deal with larger data sets or to be significantly faster than MATLAB. The project was started by someone who wasn't understood by somebody else. pandas has some issues that prevent it from being seamlessly scaled up and down.

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Hello and welcome to Talk for Today. Will we explore developments in science, technology and society and what they could mean for the future? I'm your host, Sam Barton. My guest today is Michael Garfield, a writer, musician, artist, poet philosopher, paleontologist futurist who's setting the seeds for planetary renaissance. With incisive eloquence, he takes the threads of technology, science and the wonders of the natural world, to weave together a cosmic story of life and our role in it. One that needs to be shared more widely. He's the host of the Santa Fe Institute's Complexity Podcast and his own show, Future Fossils. Both of them are brilliant and have done a lot to inform my own thinking. He's also recently joined the Long Now Foundation as a community manager, a long-term cultural institution formed to foster long-term thinking and responsibility for the next 10,000 years and beyond. If you are unfamiliar with Michael's work or his way of thinking, there's plenty of places to start, but two entryways I'd recommend would either be Episode 145 of Future Fossils, weaving a new prehistory to rewild the future, or his essays from his book, How to Live in the Future, both of which I'll link in the show notes. Speaking of show notes, I don't think I've ever had to find links to so many things mentioned in a podcast. Michael's erudition and breadth of interests is palpable and hard to keep up with. How one finds the time to do as much as he seems to do is a question, now that I think about it, I really should have asked him in this episode. In our conversation, we cover the coronavirus and the epistemic crisis we're in, and the last is the community and fragmentation, evolution as a multi-billion-year remix project, psychedelics as training wheels for transhumanism, nested complexity, restoring democracy and regenerative communities, rewilding the future, and lastly the power of ideas. You can find Michael online at Michael Garfield and at michaelgarfield.blogspot.com. If you'd like to keep up to date with new podcast episodes and anything else I might have going on, please head to my website and sign up to my newsletter, or follow me on social media at SamH Barton, or at Underschool Talk of Today. At least that's what it is on Twitter, because some gossip columnist person in 2010 got at Talk of Today and hasn't been active since. So I'm going to try to get that handled, but right now I just have to resort to the loadaly underscore. I've noticed that in this episode and a couple of my more recent ones, my audio quality hasn't quite been up to scratch, so please bear with me while I figure this out. It should get better over the next few episodes. So apologies to you audio files out there. Anyway, I really hope that you enjoy this conversation with Michael Garfield. I had been looking forward to it for quite a while, and I feel that this will be the first of many. So without further ado, please enjoy my conversation with Michael Garfield. Well, Michael, I'm very excited for you to be here, and then thanks to Alex's conversation.

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