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Mathematicians becoming data scientists
I was talking the other day with a former student at UW, Sarah Rich, who’s done degrees in both math and CS and then went off to Twitter. I asked her: so what would you say to a math Ph.D. …
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The most popular blog posts about databases & data on Hacker News. 4,222 posts.
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Use DuckDB-WASM to query TB of data in browser
The Library Innovation Lab is growing knowledge and community by bringing library principles to technological frontiers.
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Illustrated FixMatch for semi-supervised learning
Learn how to leverage unlabeled data using FixMatch for semi-supervised learning
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Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python
I am super-excited to announce that the book I've been working on for more than the last year, Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python is finally available! (buy from O'Reilly, use...
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102TB of New Crawl Data Available
We are very please to announce that new crawl data is now available! The data was collected in 2013, contains approximately 2 billion web pages and is 102TB in size (uncompressed).
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Technical Challenges Developing a Distributed SQL Database
Here is an outline of some of architectural issues addressed as we build YugabyteDB, our high-performance distributed SQL database.
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Just use Postgres
Advice: When you are making a new application that requires persistent storage of data, like is the case for most web applications, your default choice should be Postgres .
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Spending $5k to learn how database indexes work
At Superwall we’re building an SDK to help App Developers increase their revenue by showing the right offer to the right person at the right time. Follow me on twitter for little tips and articles like this one.
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Upgrading Uber's MySQL Fleet
Learn all about our journey of successfully upgrading our MySQL fleet at Uber from v5.7 to v8.0, enhancing performance and reliability.
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Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale
In 2019, to meet growth and availability challenges, we set a plan in motion to improve our tooling and ability to partition relational databases.
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RedPajama v2 Open Dataset with 30T Tokens for Training LLMs
RedPajama-Data-v2 is a 30 trillion token open dataset from 84 CommonCrawl dumps across five languages, with over 40 precomputed quality annotations.
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IBM scientists demonstrate 10x faster large-scale machine learning using GPUs
The IBM Research blog is the home for stories told by the researchers, scientists, and engineers inventing What’s Next in science and technology.
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Are we at peak vector database?
Seriously - why do we need all these vector databases? Do we need dozens of them?
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Top Reasons I like Postgres Over SQL Server
While at Waza this year, I had a chance to talk to my friend Guillaume Roques. In addition to talking about SalesForce, we took advantage of our mutual .NET backgrounds to discuss Microsoft. We did the typically uncompromising praise of The Gu and how far Azure has come along in the last 18 months… and of course we…
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PostgreSQL 12 Beta 1 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first beta release of PostgreSQL 12 is now available for download. This …
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Edward Tufte's "Slopegraphs"
Charlie Park believes in you.
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We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres
Engineering deep-dives, product updates, and company news from Tembo — the platform for running coding agents across your stack.
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Modeling Starlink Capacity
Prior attempts to calculate Starlink’s potential for service have been theoretical. We simulate based on the actual constellation.
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10M events a month, free
Discover why Amplitude Behavioral Analytics is the future of Product Intelligence that will provide the 'a-ha" moment needed for the success of any product.
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What they don’t tell you about event sourcing
Event sourcing and CQRS gained a lot of popularity recently. The advantages are obvious and they share a very peculiar symbiosis with the…
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Which color scale to use when visualizing data
This is part 1 of a series on “Which color scale to use when visualizing data” (Part …
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