Tag: benchmarks
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Faster Is Not Always Better: Choosing the Right PostgreSQL Insert Strategy in Python (+Benchmarks)
Faster Is Not Always Better: Choosing the Right PostgreSQL Insert Strategy in Python (+Benchmarks) PostgreSQL is fast. Whether your Python code can or should keep up depends on context. This article compares and benchmarks various insert strategies, focusing not on micro-benchmarks but on trade-offs between safety, abstraction, and throughput — and choosing the right tool…
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How to evaluate data transformations?
How to evaluate data transformations? There are several well-established benchmarks for text-to-SQL tasks like BIRD, Spider, and WikiSQL. However, I’m working on a data transformation system that handles per-row transformations with contextual understanding of the input data. The challenge is that most existing benchmarks focus on either: Pure SQL generation (BIRD, Spider) Simple data cleaning…
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I Tried Making my Own (Bad) LLM Benchmark to Cheat in Escape Rooms
I Tried Making my Own (Bad) LLM Benchmark to Cheat in Escape Rooms Recently, DeepSeek announced their latest model, R1, and article after article came out praising its performance relative to cost, and how the release of such open-source models could genuinely change the course of LLMs forever. That is really exciting! And also, too…