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...
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 BΞ΅-trees. A thread that captures everything you need to know about them and more..
Like, repost and share..π
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? π
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.
A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as "Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator. "The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."
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
Bluesky is now the #2 social app in the US, Canada, and #3 in the UK π¦
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 π€
Threads and Bluesky, rival social networks that look a lot like Elon Muskβs X, have seen an influx of new users since election night in the US
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 fβ-t for dating Taylor Swift. Jason turned and calmly shattered the guyβs 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)
π CTO of Pod Foods - a grocery distribution platform. Prev ML for Google Maps and Amazon
