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by evnc 8d ago
I'm increasingly of the opinion that "basically a data warehouse, but incrementally maintained materialized views under the hood as an implementation detail" (e.g. Materialize, Feldera, anything based on Differential Dataflow
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by evnc 1mo ago
I’m not opposed to this but, curious, what do we gain from such reconceptualization?
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Cambra is now open source(github.com)
2 points by evnc 1mo ago|0 comments
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by evnc 3mo ago
Oh, okay, I get the value prop now. Thank you. They should hire you to write their marketing copy, you did a better job than the landing page.
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by evnc 5mo ago
Tana is basically a programming environment disguised as a text editor (in this way, it follows in the grand tradition of emacs you could say)
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by evnc 5mo ago
doh, good point. will fix this, I acknowledge I sort of handwaved the example. thanks for the correction!
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by evnc 5mo ago
one more, for completeness: SELECT 'black' AS outline_color FROM elements parent JOIN elements child ON parent.id = child.parent_id WHERE parent.data_theme = 'light' AND child.data_theme = 'dark'
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by evnc 5mo ago
yeah I mean, to be clear, I'm less proposing "What if we add even more syntax and semantics to CSS" and more "what if we steal ideas from CSS, notice their similarity to logic / relational query languages, and use t
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by evnc 5mo ago
oh this is fun > we copy and reapply patterns in different contexts and that might enable unexpected things yeah, that's exactly what I am trying to do here. Mostly it doesn't go anywhere, but it's interesting for the hack
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by evnc 5mo ago
tbh, this started as a connection of two disparate ideas ("hey, this thing looks like this other thing"), and then just kind of explores it in different directions. I think the conclusion (which I may not have made clear enough) i
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by evnc 5mo ago
oh this is neat! Feels like exactly the sort of thing I was gesturing towards. Thanks :)
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CSS as a Query Language(evdc.me)
81 points by evnc 5mo ago|29 comments
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by evnc 5mo ago
sure! You can email me at notches_hoses_58@icloud.com (throwaway email), and we could go from there?
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by evnc 5mo ago
I broadly agree with you, so I want to pick your brain a bit: What would your ideal RDBMS / tooling look like, that facilitates 6nf effectively? Do you think it's more a limitation of the query/storage engine, or the query la
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by evnc 6mo ago
Someone has done a ray tracer in DuckDB, so essentially, yes: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/22/duckdb-wasm-doom/
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by evnc 11mo ago
Interesting. Does that mean if you want to say, make an asynchronous http request, you do something like “fire_event(HttpRequestEvent(…))” which returns immediately, and somewhere else define a handler like “on_event(HttpResponseEvent, func
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by evnc 1y ago
I assume they're doing "Structured Generation" or "Guided generation", which has been possible for a while if you control the LLM itself e.g. running an OSS model, e.g. [0][1]. It's cool to see a major API prov
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by evnc 2y ago
Always enjoy Derek Lowe's writing. n=1 here, though I've heard others say the same -- but I (fairly healthy 30s male, vaccinated) found Paxlovid massively reduced symptom intensity for me. Within a day my symptoms went from "
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by evnc 2y ago
Trying to make the same transition right now. I’ve got almost 10 years experience with python and data engineering and I’ve been reading tutorials and playing with projects on the side. I think I’ve got a grasp of the fundamentals and the a
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by evnc 2y ago
I'm a bit of a noob here, but if a) a linear SSM (a form of RNN?) is equivalent to Attention without the scaling and softmax; and b) Attention is "all you need" and the thing that made Transformers radically outperform all th
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by evnc 2y ago
Doesn’t this effect happen with EVs generally, not just Teslas? (I don’t particularly mean to defend Tesla here, but I wonder if this might be misleading)
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by evnc 2y ago
Hey, this is neat! Thanks for sharing. I may be interested in collaborating with you on this when I have some free time.
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by evnc 2y ago
When I see an embedded DSL passed around as strings like this I can't help but think "this could be its own programming language" Then it could have syntax highlighting, auto complete, and so on. The type system for such a la
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by evnc 2y ago
They're commoditizing their complement [0][1], inasmuch as LLMs are a complement of social media and advertising (which I think they are). They've made it harder for competitors like Google or TikTok to compete with Meta on the ba
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by evnc 3y ago
Reminds me of Heynote, posted to HN recently[0]. In general I think this approach of "super easy capture into an append-only log" is great, especially if it can be paired with features to enable editing/re-discovery/sear
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by evnc 3y ago
From the title alone, I initially thought this would be about meditation.
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by evnc 3y ago
Yeah, it's a balance. I love being able to help, and I am generally in favor of asking questions early, but not ones of the form "hey so I ran this code and it errored. Help?" "... did you read the stack trace? Did you l
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by evnc 3y ago
This is an interesting point, because they are kinda infinite spaces but they also impose a structure on the space, which I would assert is a part of why they are so successful, in contrast to the "infinite structureless blank paper&
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by evnc 3y ago
This is fair -- the newest token can attend perfectly to the oldest token, within the context window . but also, on a broader scale, if a transformer model is presented with a long input that does not fit in its context (e.g.: you are buil
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by evnc 3y ago
I love this! Simple and solid execution. I've been wanting to build something similar for some time now, might fork and play around with it. Thank you for open sourcing it! I've started using Obsidian with a new note for each day

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