jinjin2

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by jinjin2 1mo ago
I’m mostly using Exasol these days (the concurrency and smooth scaling to multi-node is just too seductive), but with the introduction of Quack I might take another look at DuckDB. I’ll have to see how well it handles many agents reading an
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What will more intelligence do for us?(noahpinion.blog)
8 points by jinjin2 2mo ago|2 comments
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Apple Is the King of AI and Nobody Knows It(limitededitionjonathan.substack.com)
5 points by jinjin2 2mo ago|3 comments
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Ultraclose 2029 flyby of asteroid Apophis(livescience.com)
4 points by jinjin2 2mo ago|0 comments
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by jinjin2 4mo ago
There is a really interesting article that goes into the origin and modern development of the Mondragon Cooperative here: https://open.substack.com/pub/ellegriffin/p/mondragon-as-the...
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by jinjin2 4mo ago
Ted Turner also created the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award, which was a half a million dollars literary prize for coming up with a book that offered “creative solutions to humanity's urgent problems". The winner was Daniel Quinn
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by jinjin2 7mo ago
MariaDB also has MariaDB Exa, which is a real HTAP solution using Exasol for the analytical workloads: https://mariadb.com/products/exa/
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by jinjin2 8mo ago
Exasol is another MPP database that easily handles super-wide tables, and does all the distribution across nodes for you. It used to only be available for big enterprises, but now there is a totally free version you can try out: https:&#x2
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by jinjin2 10mo ago
Sure, nobody is claiming that hunter gatherers were saints. Just because they lived in egalitarian clans, it doesn’t mean that they didn’t occasionally do bad things. But one key differentiator is that they didn’t have the logistics to have
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by jinjin2 10mo ago
> society is reverting back to factory settings of human history, which has always been a feudalist type society of a small elite owning all the wealth The word “always” is carrying a lot of weight here. This has really only been true fo
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by jinjin2 11mo ago
It seems like a problem that will self-correct. If too expensive housing is keeping couples from having children, then population will decline, which will free up a lot of housing stock making prices drop, and then people can afford having
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by jinjin2 11mo ago
SQLGlot is amazing. In many ways it helps erase the differences and bridge between dialects. It is so useful for moving complex queries between platforms.
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by jinjin2 11mo ago
The original idea idea behind SQL was to create a language that looked like English and allowed regular users to express their queries in something that resembled natur Al language. Naturally it has evolved into something far more complex,
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by jinjin2 1y ago
Bullying is such a hard problem. The only school system I have seen dealing with it effectively is the Sudbury Valley schools. There they have a Judicial Committee, composed of both students and staff, and deal with issues through a process
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by jinjin2 1y ago
I usually start with PostGIS for single-node workloads and then switch to Exasol when I get to truly massive datasets (Exasol has a more limited set of spatial operators, but scales effortlessly across multiple nodes). It will be great with
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by jinjin2 1y ago
Exasol costs us a fraction of what we used to pay for Databricks, and that is even with us serving far more users than we used to do (from a data size perspective we are not at the petabytes scale yet, but getting there).
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Self-driving is finally happening(world.hey.com)
1 points by jinjin2 1y ago|0 comments
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by jinjin2 1y ago
> they were working 90% of their waking hours. their work was their lives. This is not true at all. A quick google for “hunter gatherer work hours” would tell you that they worked far less than we do today. 2-5 hours of what we would def
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Geoship – Bioceramic Geodesic Domes(geoship.is)
2 points by jinjin2 1y ago|0 comments
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by jinjin2 1y ago
I agree that using a semantic layer is the best way to get better precision. It is almost like a cheatsheet for the AI. But I would never use one that forced me to express my queries in JSON. The best implementations integrate right into th
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by jinjin2 1y ago
We tested those, but none of them could reach the performance we needed, especially under high concurrent load (we have a large number of concurrent workloads). Exasol is just crazy fast.
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by jinjin2 1y ago
Do you support Exasol? In the current climate we don’t want to be too dependent on US cloud services, so we are moving our performance sensitive dwh workloads off Snowflake to Exasol.
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by jinjin2 1y ago
> Which she does because donations offset the taxes she owes. How would that work? You can only write off the amount you actually donate. Paying 100% to save 40% (or whatever your tax rate is) seems very counterproductive if the goal is
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by jinjin2 1y ago
Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn. One of the few books where you look so differently at the world after reading it that you literally feel like a different person.
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by jinjin2 1y ago
Yes. We saved ridiculous amounts of money (and made it a lot faster) by moving our analytics workloads from Snowflake to a few bare-metal nodes running Exasol. But it took months to convince management even though we had clear numbers showi
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The Myth of Fuck You Money(chrisryan.substack.com)
3 points by jinjin2 2y ago|9 comments
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Buckle Up, America(chrisryan.substack.com)
4 points by jinjin2 2y ago|0 comments
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Why America's future could hinge on Elon Musk(noahpinion.blog)
3 points by jinjin2 2y ago|0 comments
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Killjoys Will Inherit the Future(woodfromeden.substack.com)
4 points by jinjin2 2y ago|0 comments
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by jinjin2 2y ago
Seems reminiscent of https://world.hey.com/dhh/capture-less-than-you-create-c30e4...

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