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Many people see a homelessness crisis, but what does the data say? We examine different locations, rates of change, types of homelessness, and mental health and substance abuse issues.
We’ve been writing a bit about some odd tail behavior in the Fivethirtyeight election forecast, for example that it was giving Joe Biden a 3% chance of winning Alabama (which seemed high), it was displaying Trump winning California as in “the range of scenarios our model thinks is possible” (which didn’t seem right)…
When timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities
Important: This page summarizes data scaling only, using tokens to parameters as a ratio, and as derived from large language models like GPT-3, Chinchilla, and beyond, linked to the Compute-Optimal scaling laws like Kaplan and Hoffmann/Chinchilla. Please note that compute scaling laws are outside the scope of my…
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
A complete list of SQLite releases in a single page and a chronology are both also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at SQLite version control site .
FoundationDB 6.0.15, our first major release since open sourcing FoundationDB in April, is now officially available!
Technical deep dive into the new DBOS integration for Supabase
Vacuum is one of the sub-systems in PostgreSQL which gets improved with each release. I have checked past five releases and each has qu...
Maximizing Postgres connection economy by using a single connection per program to receive and distribute all listen/notify notifications.
Here are a list of features which I think are generally underrated in PostgreSQL and why. Many though not all of these are being used in t...
In this article we explore how our HTTP/3 API compares to the latency of a traditional MySQL client.
NanoGPT Slowrun is an open effort to implement data-efficient learning algorithms; 5.5x data efficiency in the first week and improving.
The BIG feature. The feature that made PostgreSQL leap from 8.4 to 9.0. Patch was written by Fujii Masao, and committed by Heikki Linnakangas on 15th of January 2010:
Warning: what follows is a somewhat technical discussion of my love-hate relationship with the R statistical language, in which I somehow manage to waste 2,400 words talking about a single line of …
Uncover deeper insights beyond ZIP codes with geospatial analysis. Explore the limitations of ZIP codes and discover alternatives for spatial understanding.
Proof of concept for compliance with GDPR on an Event Sourcing architecture built with Apache Kafka.
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
A blog mostly about Clojure programming
If progress follows it's usual strategy, then whatever is difficult and valuable to do today will become easy and normal tomorrow. I imagine we'll discover new abstractions, which will make writing Google Docs as easy as the average web app is today.
How disappointing it is to learn that the best ideas rarely come from data after 15 years of working in the field.
Since writing this post back in 2018, I have extended this to a 4-part series on causal inference: * ➡️️ Part 1: Intro to causal inference and do-calculus [https://www.inference.vc/untitled] * Part 2: Illustrating Interventions with a Toy Example…
