Ventura County strawberry workers are harvesting in heavy smoke from the Hughes Fire. We remind workers their employers have to provide them with respirator masks if the AQI exceeds 150. Stay safe! #WeFeedYou
The Eaton fires destroyed a youth care facility my friend worked at. They had no time to pack, and everything is lost. Please help support them if you can. These children and teen were ALREADY vulnerable before the fires. www.gofundme.com/f/provide-ai...
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Same. Fiction and non-tech reading give me the energy to do the other stuff. vickiboykis.com/essays/2024...
I started my 2025 reading white-paper(s) on Bε-trees. A thread that captures everything you need to know about them and more.. Like, repost and share..👇
This is an excellent summary. Reminds me in some ways of star tree indexes. Also feels like an LSM B-tree mashup. Interesting tradeoffs. Who's building this on object storage? 😅
Kaivalya Apte@thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 2y agoI started my 2025 reading white-paper(s) on Bε-trees. A thread that captures everything you need to know about them and more.. Like, repost and share..👇
Found this Benn Stancil post. It's wrestling something that I've felt for a while. Creating an "analytics engineer" was a mistake. AE is too narrow a role. They're getting squeezed on budget 'cuz their cost > value. AEs are flailing to find something.. reverse ETL, data products, semantic layers.
Disband the analytics team
I mean, no, surely not. But maybe?
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Been working on a population dynamics foundation model here are the details. Basically a GNN reconstructing search trends, weather and air quality. We show how the embeddings can be used to predict some public health indicators arxiv.org/abs/2411.07207
General Geospatial Inference with a Population Dynamics Foundation Model
Supporting the health and well-being of dynamic populations around the world requires governmental agencies, organizations and researchers to understand and reason over complex relationships between h...
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Bluesky is now the #2 social app in the US, Canada, and #3 in the UK 🦋 On bsky, ~30% of y'all are posters compared to the 1% main characters on other platforms. Turns out there's more chattiness & connection when you have algorithmic choice 🤭
Threads and Bluesky, rival social networks that look a lot like Elon Musk’s X, have seen an influx of new users since election night in the US
Threads, Bluesky See Influx of Users After Trump’s Election Win
Threads and Bluesky, rival social networks that look a lot like Elon Musk’s X, have seen an influx of new users since election night in the US as people seek alternatives to Musk’s more right-leaning ...
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I made an infra engineer starter pack. Folks posting about databases, stream processing, durable execution, orchestrators, service meshes, and more. go.bsky.app/SCZe42X
Some loser asked Jason Kelce how it feels that his brother is a f—-t for dating Taylor Swift. Jason turned and calmly shattered the guy’s phone.
It's so easy to misunderstand a market if you're not actively talking to customers everyday, trying to sell into it. The tiniest and safest generalizations can cause you to go completely wrong dir. One I think of often... early in Rocicorp's life, we made a seeming reasonable generalization (cont)