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Academic Doomerism

Posted by greghn on Friday October 02, 2026 @10:36PM
from the muratbuffalo.blogspot.com dept.

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/09/academic-doomerism.html

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Our Future in the Cloud: Can We Prevent Technological Dystopia?

Posted by greghn on Friday October 02, 2026 @01:09PM
from the btrblocks.com dept.

https://btrblocks.com/blog/our_future_in_the_cloud/

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Safe Optimistic Lock Coupling

Posted by greghn on Thursday October 01, 2026 @11:37AM
from the databasearchitects.blogspot.com dept.

http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2026/04/safe-optimistic-lock-coupling.html

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Safe Optimistic Lock Coupling

Posted by greghn on Sunday September 27, 2026 @07:21PM
from the databasearchitects.blogspot.com dept.

http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2026/04/safe-optimistic-lock-coupling.html

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Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL

Posted by greghn on Thursday January 02, 2025 @02:20PM
from the databasearchitects.blogspot.com dept.

http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2024/12/advent-of-code-2024-in-pure-sql.html

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How fast can you parse a CSV file in C#?

Posted by greghn on Sunday October 27, 2024 @01:38PM
from the lemire.me dept.

https://lemire.me/blog/2024/10/17/how-fast-can-you-parse-a-csv-file-in-c/

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How fast can you parse a CSV file in C#?

Posted by greghn on Thursday October 17, 2024 @08:07PM
from the lemire.me dept.

https://lemire.me/blog/2024/10/17/how-fast-can-you-parse-a-csv-file-in-c/

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From Software to Reality?

Posted by greghn on Thursday October 17, 2024 @10:36AM
from the lemire.me dept.

https://lemire.me/blog/2024/10/09/from-software-to-reality/

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Apple study proves LLM-based AI models are flawed because they cannot reason

Posted by greghn on Saturday October 12, 2024 @07:50PM
from the appleinsider.com dept.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/10/12/apples-study-proves-that-llm-based-ai-models-are-flawed-because-they-cannot-reason

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Geoffrey Hinton, the Godfather of Deep Learning, Wins Nobel Prize in Physics

Posted by greghn on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @09:58AM
from the lemire.me dept.

https://lemire.me/blog/2024/10/08/geoffrey-hinton-the-godfather-of-deep-learning-wins-nobel-prize-in-physics/

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The PhD Paradox: A Journey into Academia's Upside-Down World

Posted by greghn on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @01:15PM
from the lemire.me dept.

https://lemire.me/blog/2024/09/11/the-phd-paradox-a-journey-into-academias-upside-down-world/

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B-Trees Require Fewer Comparisons Than Balanced Binary Search Trees

Posted by greghn on Sunday June 23, 2024 @12:06PM
from the databasearchitects.blogspot.com dept.

http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2024/06/b-trees-require-fewer-comparisons-than.html

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A Culture of Envy

Posted by greghn on Saturday May 11, 2024 @06:03PM
from the lemire.me dept.

https://lemire.me/blog/2014/08/11/a-culture-of-envy/

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How quickly can you break a long string into lines?

Posted by greghn on Sunday April 28, 2024 @03:00PM
from the lemire.me dept.

https://lemire.me/blog/2024/04/19/how-quickly-can-you-break-a-long-string-into-lines/

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Some Shortcomings of CSRankings

Posted by greghn on Thursday April 25, 2024 @05:05AM
from the data-mining.philippe-fournier-viger.com dept.

https://data-mining.philippe-fournier-viger.com/some-shortcomings-of-csrankings/

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How quickly can you break a long string into lines?

Posted by greghn on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @11:08AM
from the lemire.me dept.

https://lemire.me/blog/2024/04/19/how-quickly-can-you-break-a-long-string-into-lines/

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How quickly can you break a long string into lines?

Posted by greghn on Monday April 22, 2024 @06:36PM
from the lemire.me dept.

https://lemire.me/blog/2024/04/19/how-quickly-can-you-break-a-long-string-into-lines/

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Avi Wigderson Receives 2023 ACM A.M. Turing Award

Posted by greghn on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @08:32AM
from the ias.edu dept.

https://www.ias.edu/news/avi-wigderson-2023-acm-am-turing-award

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Boosted Tree Predictions in SQL

Posted by greghn on Sunday March 24, 2024 @10:00PM
from the foldl.de dept.

https://foldl.de/blogs/re/re-gbm-sql.html

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Passing recursive C++ lambdas as function pointers

Posted by greghn on Sunday March 24, 2024 @01:46PM
from the lemire.me dept.

https://lemire.me/blog/2024/03/22/passing-recursive-c-lambdas-as-function-pointers/

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Towards an Objective Metric for Data Value Through Relevance [pdf]

Posted by greghn on Sunday March 10, 2024 @02:43PM
from the cidrdb.org dept.

https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2024/papers/p66-glavic.pdf

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Some Shortcomings of CSRankings

Posted by greghn on Saturday March 09, 2024 @11:21PM
from the data-mining.philippe-fournier-viger.com dept.

https://data-mining.philippe-fournier-viger.com/some-shortcomings-of-csrankings/

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Some Shortcomings of CSRankings

Posted by greghn on Sunday March 03, 2024 @09:52PM
from the data-mining.philippe-fournier-viger.com dept.

https://data-mining.philippe-fournier-viger.com/some-shortcomings-of-csrankings/

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SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud

Posted by greghn on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @11:59AM
from the databasearchitects.blogspot.com dept.

http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2024/02/ssds-have-become-ridiculously-fast.html

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XFaaS: Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions at Meta

Posted by greghn on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @12:15AM
from the micahlerner.com dept.

https://www.micahlerner.com/2024/01/23/xfaas-hyperscale-and-low-cost-serverless-functions-at-meta.html

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Towards an Objective Metric for Data Value Through Relevance [pdf]

Posted by greghn on Thursday January 25, 2024 @01:07PM
from the cidrdb.org dept.

https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2024/papers/p66-glavic.pdf

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Some Shortcomings of CSRankings

Posted by greghn on Saturday January 20, 2024 @08:09PM
from the data-mining.philippe-fournier-viger.com dept.

https://data-mining.philippe-fournier-viger.com/some-shortcomings-of-csrankings/

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How fast can you validate UTF-8 strings in JavaScript?

Posted by greghn on Saturday January 20, 2024 @02:56PM
from the lemire.me dept.

https://lemire.me/blog/2023/12/05/how-fast-can-you-validate-utf-8-strings-in-javascript/

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Tupleware: "Big" Data, Big Analytics, Small Clusters [pdf]

Posted by greghn on Saturday January 20, 2024 @11:58AM
from the cidrdb.org dept.

https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2015/Papers/CIDR15_Paper23u.pdf

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