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14th November 2023

TIL Summing columns in remote Parquet files using DuckDB — [vivym/midjourney-messages](https://huggingface.co/datasets/vivym/midjourney-messages) on Hugging Face is a large (~8GB) dataset consisting of 55,082,563 Midjourney images - each one with the prompt and a URL to the image hosted on Discord.

Posted 14th November 2023 at 10:43 pm

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