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Revisiting "The Great Mathematical Sputnik of 1979"(pubsonline.informs.org)
3 points by fforflo 2mo ago|0 comments
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AI Breaks the Monopoly of Elegant Software(tselai.com)
3 points by fforflo 3mo ago|0 comments
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Native Full-Text Search in PostgreSQL JSONPath: Proposing Tsmatch(tselai.com)
1 points by fforflo 8mo ago|0 comments
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Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report(theguardian.com)
464 points by fforflo 1y ago|230 comments
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Volcanic crisis reveals coupled magma system at Santorini and Kolumbo(nature.com)
3 points by fforflo 1y ago|0 comments
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Support for base64url encoding and decoding in PostgreSQL 19(tselai.com)
3 points by fforflo 1y ago|1 comments
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My Favorite PostgreSQL 18 Feature: Virtual Generated Columns(tselai.com)
54 points by fforflo 1y ago|9 comments
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Pgconf.eu 2025 Schedule(postgresql.eu)
1 points by fforflo 1y ago|0 comments
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by fforflo 1y ago
If you're interested in this sort of thing with an SQL flavor, you may find the pgpdf PostgreSQL extension useful https://github.com/Florents-Tselai/pgpdf . It's basically an SQL wrapper around poppler.
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System View for Inspecting DSM Registry Allocations in PostgreSQL(tselai.com)
6 points by fforflo 1y ago|0 comments
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LLMs: The Missing Compiler for Unix Tools(tselai.com)
1 points by fforflo 1y ago|0 comments
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by fforflo 1y ago
Except for the fact that big consultancies who receive most of the government contracts, have zero contribution to the open source ecosystem.
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by fforflo 1y ago
Technically yes, but they're used interchangeably nowdays. Plus, the official transcript mentions "Mytilene" so I wanted to follow that. Although I use Lesvos myself.
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by fforflo 1y ago
In 2021, during a visit to the Greek island of Mytilene, Pope Francis delivered one of the finest speeches I've ever read: > This great basin of water, the cradle of so many civilizations, now looks like a mirror of death. Let us no
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by fforflo 1y ago
With $GEMINI_MODE=gemini-2.0-flash I also got some decent results for libraries like simonw/llm and pgcli. You can tell that because simonw writes quite heavily-documented code an the logic is pretty straightforward, it helps the model
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by fforflo 1y ago
It's decent enough. But you'd probably have to use a model like llama2, which may set your GPU on fire.
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by fforflo 1y ago
If you want to use Ollama to run local models, here’s a simple example: from ollama import chat, ChatResponse def call_llm(prompt, use_cache: bool = True, model="phi4") -> str: response: ChatResponse = chat( model=m
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Show HN: Install Postgres with Pip in Virtualenv(github.com)
2 points by fforflo 1y ago|0 comments
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by fforflo 1y ago
It's also exciting that their code to actually reproduce these is also available. https://github.com/wccarleton/mesoneomalta
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Ask HN: AI Infra Support for a non-profit making government data transparent?
2 points by fforflo 1y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What Are Your Experiences with RAG and LLMs in Non-English Languages?
2 points by fforflo 1y ago|0 comments
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by fforflo 1y ago
I'm working on spat https://github.com/Florents-Tselai/spat a Postgres extension. spat is a Redis-like in-memory data structure server embedded in Postgres. Data is stored in Postgres shared memory. The data model
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Postgres Extension Day, Montreal 2025(pgext.day)
1 points by fforflo 1y ago|0 comments
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by fforflo 1y ago
I tend to agree. The OOP-all-the-things mantra created many problems; lots of books were printed (more than necessary), and lots of evangelists made their name on unnecessary abstractions over abstractions. One might blame Java for that, bu
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by fforflo 1y ago
The "New World" is re-discovering what the Balkans / Southern Europe have been doing for decades.
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by fforflo 1y ago
Makefile with make2graph to visualize DAGs.
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by fforflo 1y ago
Whenever I read something about Boston Dynamics now, I can't help but remember that scene from Silicon Valley (HBO) where Eric kicks BigDog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFnMBW95RZI
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Removing nulls from JSON arrays – coming in PostgreSQL 18(tselai.com)
1 points by fforflo 2y ago|1 comments
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by fforflo 2y ago
PostgreSQL 18 won't have many JSON enhancements - how much better can it get after all? And virtual generated columns will probably be the highlight of the release. But there's always some room for improvement. One long-standing
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Coming in PostgreSQL 18 – Removing null array elements(depesz.com)
2 points by fforflo 2y ago|1 comments

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