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And I think you’ll love it. I focused on several areas: Improved UI and user experience Faster performance Useful features Updated documentation For Mac users, Native Apple Silicon (ARM – M1, M2) compatibility If that’s all you need to know, you can buy a license here. Or if you already have a version 1 license, you…
State partisanship and COVID vaccination rates are strongly predictive of COVID death rates even once you account for age.
Posted by Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Student Researcher, and Chen-Yu Lee, Research Scientist, Cloud AI Team Large language models (LLMs) have enabled a new da...
AlpacaEval an LLM-based automatic evaluation that is fast, cheap, and reliable. It is based on the AlpacaFarm evaluation set, which tests the ability of models to follow general user instructions. These responses are then compared to reference responses (Davinci003 for AlpacaEval, GPT-4 Preview for AlpacaEval 2.0) by…
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In the past few years, I've heard a lot about Avro, Parquet, ORC, Arrow and Feather, but I also keep hearing about Iceberg and Delta Lake. As a "database person", I’ve been struggling to understand all of these different things, and how they relate to Data Lakes and
Alongside lower costs, Cloud Spanner provides single-digit ms latencies and strong consistency across multiple availability zones in the same region.
“Function calling” with ChatGPT is ChatGPT’s best feature since ChatGPT.
An investigation of weird hardware utilization highlighting some interesting Linux kernel behaviors.
The best code is the code unwritten. Avoid building a complex API layer by sharing your database between services.
I downloaded all the posts on Bluesky as of 2023-05-01. Then I did some data analysis on the 1680399 posts from 45457 accounts.
A deep dive into the theoretical framework and the technical implementation of a text CRDT.
If you're exploring or publishing data, you should give this open source tool a go.
Discover all the options for change data capture (CDC) in Postgres––and which is best for your use case.
Edit – this post generated a few insightful comments on Hacker News. I’ve also put the code in a notebook for ease of use. Introduction Modern MLOps is complex because it involves too many components. …
We recently improved DuckDB's JSON extension so JSON files can be directly queried as if they were tables.
A managed Postgres offering developed by Supabase and Fly.io
I got a Slack message from colleagues at a major partner. They’d updated their dev environment to support WebSockets, so that Neon’s serverless driver could be used there, but then they’d run into a weird issue. The nub of it was this: This hangs: This works Reproducibly, the query without an ORDER BY ran fine […]
Everyone already knows that SQLite is great. This article makes the praise much more specific though — it explains why we, the developers of libSQL, think that SQLite is a great choice for bringing your data to the edge.
Over the past years, the adoption of RocksDB increased dramatically. It became a standard for embeddable key-value stores.
Quicker, but also more convenient
SQL:2023 has been wrapped. The final text has been submitted by the working group to ISO Central Secretariat, and it’s now up to the ISO gods when it will be published. Based on past experience, it could be between a few weeks and a few months.
Even though many scientists are expected to abide by the principles of open, rigorous and reproducible research, few scientists actually receive formal training in this. Indeed, there is no collection written by working scientists for working scientists about the principles of transparent, rigorous and reproducible…
An alternate to traditional <code>deleted_at</code> soft deletion that stays out of the way and minimizes bugs.
Hello, my name is Maxim Babenko, I’m the head of the distributed computing technologies department at Yandex. Today we’re pleased to…
