I'm still annoyed at Gelsinger for canceling intel optane. It wasn't profitable yet, but it was basically the only unique offering that intel had and the only thing from the company that I would consider buying

Vector search in a relational DB makes more sense than a dedicated vector database, because it turns out that in real world applications, lateral joins with vector search in the subquery is a common pattern

I.e. "don't send stuff back and forth" stays true for vector DBs, not just traditional DBs

“Previously, Moderna expected to move mRNA-1018 into late-phase development using the HHS funding. The company said it is now seeking alternatives consistent with its “strategic commitment to pandemic preparedness.”” www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/hhs-...

Jevons paradox in software: any operation that you managed to make fast will be called from inside loops. This includes batched operations with a single input

Twitter when you say you stand with Ukraine

I'm glad that Kubernetes is relearning the OS design lesson from the 70s that calling functions over a socket has an unnecessarily high performance and complexity overhead compared to just dynamically linking in the actual code.

Next we will have .so/.dll hell in k8s

kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/c...

I feel like this whole thing is a good illustration why grievance politics are so effective and so dangerous.

Everyone feels like their personal grievances are so self-evident that the demagogue must be attacking the people they hate — in this case, “bad” immigrants — and not them

Gauss's Theorem Egregium is remarkable #MathSky

Every now and then I think of how insane it is that the relational paradigm won out and that something like Postgres is considered normal and boring and used everywhere. Especially considering that Prolog and proof checkers are niche things that few people in industry have heard about