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18 hours ago10 Apache Spark Anti-Patterns to Avoid
Avoid common Spark anti-patterns that trigger unnecessary actions, shuffles, caching issues, and excessive schema complexity, which slow big data jobs.
Ray was originally built for reinforcement learning research, then quietly faded as RL hit a wall. Until ChatGPT showed up. Suddenly reinforcement learning was back, as the post-training step that turns a raw language model into something genuinely useful.
I've been writing code long enough to remember when computers had 5¼-inch floppy drives and exactly zero network cards. Connectivity was a 2400 baud modem talking to a local BBS via the plain old telephone system. The notion of two computers talking to each other was conceivable-but just the two. The Internet was just a twinkle in the eyes of a few DARPA engineers.