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NumPy on PyPy progress report
Hello. A lot of things happened in March, like pycon . I was also busy doing other things (pictured), so apologies for the late numpy statu...
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“My Car does not start when I buy Vanilla Ice Cream” (2015)
Did you ever imagine that an “Ice Cream” could shake the entire General Motors? In 2010, the Pontiac Division of General Motors received a very funny complaint from one of its customers. It was so weird & bizarre that it took the entire General Motors by storm. However, on reading the entire Case, this definitely
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DBT Cloud increase Team plan price by 100% and limit features at the same time
We’re updating the dbt Cloud Developer and Team plans to better reflect product maturity after years of improvements.
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New method identifies the root causes of statistical outliers
Amazon ICML paper proposes information-theoretic measurement of quantitative causal contribution.
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How NASA Is Using Graph Technology and LLMs to Build a People Knowledge Graph
Missed NASA’s People Graph webinar? Catch the recap and see how graph technology and AI are shaping the future of workforce intelligence.
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First release candidate for TimescaleDB 1.0
Install TimescaleDB on Linux, macOS, Windows, Docker, Kubernetes, or from source
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Faster offset pagination for Rails apps
Introducing FastPage a new gem for ActiveRecord that speeds up deep pagination queries.
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LMDB: Intel Optane SSD Microbenchmark
Since the point of these tests is to explore the performance of the Optane SSDs, the tests are configured much like the previous ondisk benchmark, using a database approximately 5x larger than RAM, to minimize the impact of caching in RAM and force the storage devices to be exercised. However, there are some twists to…
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ScyllaDB is Moving to a New Replication Algorithm: Tablets
How moving from Vnode-based replication to tablets helps dynamically distribute data across the cluster, ultimately increasing ScyllaDB’s elasticity.
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DataStax just bought our startup Langflow
The past few weeks have been nuts, and we’ve been itching to share some huge news with you all… 🥁 Langflow is joining DataStax!
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Databases in 2023: A Year in Review
Andy recounts the rise of vector databases to SQL:2023 to MariaDB troubles and the FAA outage in 2023.
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Semantic Search with SQLite
txtai is an all-in-one open-source AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows
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What Happens When You Put a Database in the Browser?
Explore DuckDB Wasm for fast, in-browser analytical SQL. Learn how to instantiate the JS API, query Parquet files, and export data to CSV with zero latency. | Reading time: 8 min read
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IBM Watson Acquires Technology from Blekko
Experience an integrated media property for tech workers—latest news, explainers and market insights to help stay ahead of the curve.
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The Evaporative Cooling Effect in Social Networks (2010)
http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/social-software-sundays-2-the-evaporative-cooling-effect/
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I Love Julia
For the past half year I’ve been exploring Julia in piecemeal fashion. It’s a language that does not conform to the traditional notions of programming. Julia...
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ReadySet Core: next-generation SQL caching, freely available
Today we’re announcing ReadySet Core, a freely available version of ReadySet that you can run anywhere from your own laptop to any cloud provider, on as many nodes as you need.
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The problem with lying is keeping track of all the lies
Or why clear consistency guarantees are how to stay sane when programming distributed systems.
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Oracle Surprised by the Present
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Keeping our free tier sustainable by preventing abuse
A free tier allows people to try a SaaS without paying first, but it opens up the service to bad actors. Here's how we balance preventing bad actors while still supporting legitimate users.
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