Syscalls, memory allocation, and cache lines oh my! If any of that sounds interesting to you check out my post on jemalloc whateverforever.computer/blog/jemallo...

I wrote up a little post on using tpchgen-rs (the best way to generate TPC-H benchmark data on a Pi whateverforever.computer/blog/tpchgen...

i got suspended on twitter its over

“on Thursday the [National Science Foundation]’s online payment system was still down, throwing lives into uncertainty. An NSF email seen by STAT suggested salaries had been suspended to “ensure only eligible activities” are funded.” www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills

An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills

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7 databases in 7 weeks cool idea :) matt.blwt.io/post/7-datab...

Tube shaped

Updates for my database starter pack and list: - Added @clickhouse.com - Added @memgraph.com Welcome to join the bluesky, let's rock! go.bsky.app/Nd8hieE

Interesting website for those who are programming literate but not so math literate math4devs.com

List of mathematical symbols with their JavaScript equivalent.

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When I volunteer to fix a legacy bug within our compaction engine at work

Atproto nerds, what cool things have you seen people in the community do that could use a shoutout or some help? Boost for reach!

Three basic suggestions for getting into distributed systems - Read DDIA - Follow MIT 6.5840 - Do fly dot io distributed systems challenge (no particular order)

She wants to travel

Now that "scale is all we need" has predictably faltered... 1. Small AI models often perform better in context. 2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to research capture. Me + @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

Hype, Sustainability, and the Price of the Bigger-is-Better Paradigm in AI

With the growing attention and investment in recent AI approaches such as large language models, the narrative that the larger the AI system the more valuable, powerful and interesting it is is increa...

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TIL; Complete binary trees can be modeled by arrays with implemented indexing algorithms to find nodes: opendsa-server.cs.vt.edu/ODSA/Books/C... This started out as a small project where I'm implementing huffman codes, but, like any other programming project ya'know I gotta over-engineer.

What do people hack on in their free time? I’m currently working on a Huffman compression library to play around with prefix trees.

God grant me the serenity to accept I am cooked, The courage to say fuck it we ball, And the wisdom to know when we are so back

Trying to reach some mutuals! Things I’m interested in: Rust Go C++ Computer Science Anime Progressivism Databases Big data Compilers Programming I work in the database internals space —specifically OLAP and love chatting anything that has to with systems programming!