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More interested in creating a variant of python that's practical.
Wrote a parser with a rust compatible pattern matching syntax here:
https://github.com/py2many/spy-ast
Should help both JIT and static translation.
Grokipedia's mistake is that it generates text statically instead of dynamically from a machine curated data structure in latent space.
Latentpedia starts from wikidata, not Wikipedia.
Latentpedia.org will not have these problems. The content is human produced, but the extraction of a graph and creating the latent space is AI driven.
It's strange that typescript has 5 different LLM written competing static translators to compiled languages and python is killing JIT because the PEP was not accepted.
This is largely the idea behind py2many + fquery, but we want to get rid of C-API as well.
https://github.com/py2many/py2many
https://github.com/adsharma/fquery/blob/main/tests/django_example_model.py
Not sarcastic. Backed by a registered domain name, GitHub project, discussion links, huggingface dataset and an OSS graph database project with 1900 stars.
The extremists are the ones who believe that Wikipedia is working well and quote Poe's law as described on the page, which Google will cite literally.
Problems with wikipedia:
* one source of truth. Not useful for controversial topics
* On topics like graph databases (where I've spent 10+ years), the content doesn't reflect best practices (e.g. VLDB papers)
* Someone with sufficient resources can remove content in the name of "clean up"
* Google <-> wikipedia effect that others discuss in the thread.
Latentpedia will not have any of these problems.
What academics need to defend is wikipedia in latent space. Not walls of text that reflect the opinions of a few who have the time to edit that the rich and famous can optimize.
That is why we are building latentpedia.org.
This line of work is a mirage. You're much better off investing in a project like latentpedia.org and building a new class of LLMs which support dual use. Deterministic and less compressed or probabilistic and fit in GPU memory.
There is a strong human incentive to have a monorepo in a corporate environment. This is not a technical question.
An entire dept exists to make it work. Atomicity and security are other arguments. The larger the company, the stronger the incentive.
It's not something average software developers working elsewhere care about much.
Amazon seems to be the only big company bucking this trend.
Qualcomm CEO was talking demand for chips that can run a 100B param model on a phone.
There is a Q about how much RAM these phones will need and the average selling price.
People are seriously addicted to doom scrolling. But what are they willing to pay for a phone?
We raised X million to kill Y
Is all over LinkedIn and Twitter
LBUG_DUMP_LOGICAL=1 <run your query>
Improvements welcome!
Maintainer of LadybugDB here. I'm reviewing a PR to transpile GQL to Cypher.
It should be possible to transpile datalog or another query language that is interesting.
Implementing storage and secondary indicies is the hard part.
Won't comment on rewriting the DB in Rust beyond what's in GitHub discussions.
Bi-temporal means the DB keeps track of transaction time and valid/effective time separately.
Most databases have a notion of logical clock to implement MVCC/transactions. So this is just a mapping. Some in the spanner family actually use a drift limited physical clock.
The second part is using an index to answer queries about facts in the past. Like what was the capital of India in 1800?
There are existing embedded graph databases which do this.
Disclosure: I maintain one.
Why do you need another database and another query language for this?
Existing cypher based databases which support typed properties (including timestamps) on relationship tables can handle this use case just fine.
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adsharma on Saturday October 03, 2026 @05:10PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/networkx/networkx/discussions/8933
Writes will be slower though. That's the trade-off for all columnar tech in general. You can enjoy the savings for a read-only network and switch to classic networkx when you need to write.
Jensen Huang is neither a Nazi, nor far right.
HN has other biases that mirror the biases of the avg tech worker in the valley and those of the people called out in the article.
But they don't neatly fit into "far left" and "far right" buckets. People who use those terms usually are professional agitators.
https://youtube.com/shorts/h3dqFk3FcRk?is=uxh_cCfkuhj8yWBP
Yes, which is why the focus should be on how they're connected together. Not what happens after we connect them to create Jason Bourne.
SQLite was mentioned as a placeholder to make it a queryable database. Genome as an analogy.
We need to develop new type of databases and connect them to ML.
A 10TB SSD is not conscious. SQLite is not conscious. A wafer is not conscious.
But connect them all together...
The problem is that you're not offered a choice. No one is making the "err towards explainability" choice.
Training data is treated as IP. Distillation is seen as an attack.
Open data, open training based systems such an Marin are just getting started. Explainability is not a priority there.
The ones who do discuss these ideas are confrontational about LLMs and not effective spokespeople.
What you're using is a transformer based database index. An obfuscated one.
Training data is the database. Model is a lossy compressed index.
I'm sympathetic to this argument.
All I'm saying is: if you have a choice between two systems with equal power of discovery and one is more understandable than the other, we choose the more understandable one.
Limits of Human comprehension and quest for power are two different motivations that could lead to black box systems that are marketed as semi-explainable.
We need to verify that human comprehension is actually limiting progress before allowing such things and even when we do, do it responsibly on an explainable foundation.
Oh you want tech that helps discover new science instead of parroting existing wisdom?
There is little evidence that the RSI we are discussing is capable of inventing the theory of relativity (or the more advanced equivalent). All we have seen is pattern matching in a much larger space than humans can, with some human provided verification tech.
I would argue that human-AI collaboration with explainable tech has a better chance. Continuous learning can be done in a way that doesn't violate IP or privacy.
If there is guillotine in the weights of the model, it needs to be properly labeled so you can look it up by name using a database index (or a graph-vector index).
It helps both the bad guys and good guys. Like responsible disclosure in cyber security, we need to have a conversation around it.
You can have a transformer based index built on top of a graph database. Much of the explainability tech (people who prefer "alignment" also prefer "mechanistic interpretability") is reverse engineering the real world graph that's hiding in the weights.
https://research.google/pubs/the-case-for-learned-index-stru...
Statistical learned indexes can exist in explainable tech such as a database.
In 2017 Google was writing papers about it. Then something changed.
I don't think it was the tech. It was a realization around the power and societal impact.
The gun comes with a manual on how to use it safely. I'm sure it has some complexities, but at the high level:
> A gun is a metal tube that uses a tiny, controlled explosion to shoot a small piece of metal (called a bullet) forward at very high speed.
If the gun doesn't work as intended, you can take it to a shop and someone can fix it so it works as designed.
All I'm saying is AI should be designed the same way. Treat AI as normal tech like any other and use similar language.