intelligent-trading-bot VS quokka

I agree that the conventional (numeric) forecasting can hardly benefit from the newest approaches like transformers and LLMs. I made such a conclusion while working on the intelligent trading bot [0] by experimenting with many ML algorithms. Yet, there exist some cases where transformers might provide significant advantages. They could be useful where the (numeric) forecasting is augmented with discrete event analysis and where sequences of events are important. Another use case is where certain patterns are important like those detected in technical analysis. Yet, for these cases much more data is needed.

[0] https://github.com/asavinov/intelligent-trading-bot Intelligent Trading Bot: Automatically generating signals and trading based on machine learning and feature engineering

An awesome read!

Something related that I found out about from HN a few months back is another engine called quokka. It's particularly interesting and applicable how quokka schedules distributed queries to outperform Spark https://github.com/marsupialtail/quokka/blob/master/blog/why...

Hi Justin, you might be interested in my blog: https://github.com/marsupialtail/quokka/blob/master/blog/bac... advocating a cloud based approach.

You don't have to use the system I am building, but it's worth thinking about that design.

SQL support is very challenging.

I work on Quokka (https://github.com/marsupialtail/quokka). I support Iceberg reads. Recently we are adding SQL support from just parsing the DuckDB logical plan, though that is very challenging as well.

The Python world lacks a standard for a plug and play SQL query optimizer. Apache Calcite is good for the JVM world, but not great if you are trying to cut out the JVM.

In case people are interested, I wrote a post about fault tolerance strategies of data systems like Spark and Flink: https://github.com/marsupialtail/quokka/blob/master/blog/fau...

The key difference here is that these systems don't store data, so fault tolerance means recovering within a query instead of not losing data.

would love to collaborate on an integration with pyquokka (https://github.com/marsupialtail/quokka) once I put out a stable release end of this month :-)

Then you should keep an eye on quokka. This may become the "Spark" for Polars/DuckDB. It seems to be under active development though I'm not sure how stable it is.