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How much agency?
Of late I've been frustrated with LLMs. So I'm wondering if it actually makes sense to give them too much power to make decisions.
Aug 21
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June 2025
Summit Season: Notes
Some random notes from my experiences at the recent Snowflake and Databricks Summits in SF.
Jun 16
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May 2025
My VizChitra Proposal
There is a cool data visualization conference happening in Bangalore next month, and I've proposed a talk on "Self Service BI Serves Nobody". Reposting…
May 21
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Pilots and copilots
A product that is a "copilot" assumes that its users have the ability to be "pilots".
May 19
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Karthik S
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March 2025
(yet another) two kinds of data scientists
i'm in a bit of a conundrum in terms of tradeoffs as I try to hire more data scientists for Babbage
Mar 22
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"X for Y" and stereotypes
I use information theory and LZW Compression to argue that "X for Y" actually makes for an excellent elevator pitch
Mar 13
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Karthik S
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February 2025
Dunbar Number for data insights
Like how Robin Dunbar said humans can have about 150 social relationships, there is a similar number for the number of top level business metrics…
Feb 12
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December 2024
Spirit is willing, but flesh is weak
On a random attempt at getting an LLM to undo its work, with uncertain results
Dec 4, 2024
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Karthik S
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November 2024
SaaS playbooks
A very large proportion of successful Indian SaaS companies have grown by largely selling to Tech teams. What does this tell us about the so-called…
Nov 25, 2024
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The "industrial revolution" of data insights
The data insights industry is going through its own industrial revolution. And Babbage Insight is part of that!
Nov 12, 2024
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Karthik S
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October 2024
Insider Update: 10/24
Version 0.1 of Babbage Insight is ready, and we have started selling it as a service. If you, or someone you know, wants to check out, please let us…
Oct 30, 2024
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We has podcast
It is easy to produce if you write - take your content and feed it to NotebookLM (or similar), and you'll have your own podcast!
Oct 2, 2024
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Karthik S
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