Thomas Zurek 🕊️
@tfxz.bsky.social
SAP, Edinburgh University, EPCC and KIT alumnus. Lecturer at DHBW Karlsruhe + HS Darmstadt. Foundations: Klaus-Tschira-Stiftung + MGH-Stiftung. DBMS, DW, ML. Comments reflect my POV. Also: @tfxz@mastodon.scot
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November 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Meeting of "my" group of vocational #HDA students at #Merck in #Darmstadt . They presented their resp. PP1 project. Very interesting. I've learned quite a lot.
November 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Meeting of "my" group of vocational #HDA students at #Merck in #Darmstadt . They presented their resp. PP1 project. Very interesting. I've learned quite a lot.
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Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Cheng Chen will present how @mooncakelabs.bsky.social extends PostgreSQL to support Apache Iceberg. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futur...
[Future Data] Mooncake: Real-Time Apache Iceberg Without Compromise - Carnegie Mellon Database Group
Apache Iceberg is great for large-scale analytics, but it was built for... Read More +
db.cs.cmu.edu
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Cheng Chen will present how @mooncakelabs.bsky.social extends PostgreSQL to support Apache Iceberg. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futur...
Karrieremesse meet@h_da vom 18. - 20.11.2025 von 10 - 16 Uhr: https://h-da.de/wwwh-dade/meet #HDA #H_DA #DualeAusbildung #DualesStudium
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Karrieremesse meet@h_da vom 18. - 20.11.2025 von 10 - 16 Uhr: https://h-da.de/wwwh-dade/meet #HDA #H_DA #DualeAusbildung #DualesStudium
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🔴 AGORA | Tornado arrasa com município paranaense de Rio Bonito do Iguaçu. Vários prédios e casas vieram abaixo. Há relatos de pessoas soterradas. Equipes de emergência atuam no resgate. Saiba mais do tornado em metsul.com.
November 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
🔴 AGORA | Tornado arrasa com município paranaense de Rio Bonito do Iguaçu. Vários prédios e casas vieram abaixo. Há relatos de pessoas soterradas. Equipes de emergência atuam no resgate. Saiba mais do tornado em metsul.com.
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Ryan Johnson (CMU PhD'10) will present @deltalakeoss.bsky.social's internal architecture and how it supports multi-statement transactions. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futur...
[Future Data] Multi-statement Transactions in the Databricks Lakehouse - Carnegie Mellon Database Group
The data lake architecture originally focused on self-standing tables in cloud storage,... Read More +
db.cs.cmu.edu
November 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Ryan Johnson (CMU PhD'10) will present @deltalakeoss.bsky.social's internal architecture and how it supports multi-statement transactions. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futur...
Meeting up with my former colleague and good friend Giri at #SAP this morning. We had a good discussion. It is refreshing to look at things nowadays from a more distanced, albeit long-term perspective.
October 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Meeting up with my former colleague and good friend Giri at #SAP this morning. We had a good discussion. It is refreshing to look at things nowadays from a more distanced, albeit long-term perspective.
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Brighton 1 - [1] Newcastle United - Nick Woltemade 76' great goal
Oh Woltemade, you cheeky little bugger
Oh Woltemade, you cheeky little bugger
October 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Brighton 1 - [1] Newcastle United - Nick Woltemade 76' great goal
Oh Woltemade, you cheeky little bugger
Oh Woltemade, you cheeky little bugger
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🎉It was an honor to celebrate 30 remarkable years of the Klaus Tschira Foundation!
It's inspiring to see decades of impact in STEM and science communication and we're excited for many more years of collaboration and innovation!
Photos © Annette Mueck
#KlausTschiraFoundation #STEM #Anniversary
It's inspiring to see decades of impact in STEM and science communication and we're excited for many more years of collaboration and innovation!
Photos © Annette Mueck
#KlausTschiraFoundation #STEM #Anniversary
October 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🎉It was an honor to celebrate 30 remarkable years of the Klaus Tschira Foundation!
It's inspiring to see decades of impact in STEM and science communication and we're excited for many more years of collaboration and innovation!
Photos © Annette Mueck
#KlausTschiraFoundation #STEM #Anniversary
It's inspiring to see decades of impact in STEM and science communication and we're excited for many more years of collaboration and innovation!
Photos © Annette Mueck
#KlausTschiraFoundation #STEM #Anniversary
Congratulations: 30 years Klaus Tschira Stiftung. Celebrations near Ladenburg.
October 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Congratulations: 30 years Klaus Tschira Stiftung. Celebrations near Ladenburg.
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Venezuela closes embassy in Oslo after opposition leader awarded Nobel peace prize
Venezuela closes embassy in Oslo after opposition leader awarded Nobel peace prize
María Corina Machado has made downfall of Maduro regime in Venezuela her mission
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Venezuela closes embassy in Oslo after opposition leader awarded Nobel peace prize
Beautiful colours - as every autumn - along Walldorf's Dietmar-Hopp-Allee near SAP.
October 14, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Beautiful colours - as every autumn - along Walldorf's Dietmar-Hopp-Allee near SAP.
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Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Will Manning (@willmanning.com) will present @spiraldb.com's Vortex file format. Vortex is now a @linuxfoundation.org project. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futur...
[Future Data] Vortex: LLVM for File Formats - Carnegie Mellon Database Group
Apache Parquet revolutionized columnar storage after its initial release in 2013, but... Read More +
db.cs.cmu.edu
October 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Will Manning (@willmanning.com) will present @spiraldb.com's Vortex file format. Vortex is now a @linuxfoundation.org project. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futur...
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NEW: A professor at Rutgers University who wrote a book about “antifa” almost a decade ago is trying—and struggling—to flee the US for Europe after a weeks-long online campaign against him by far-right influencers was followed by death threats. www.wired.com/story/mark-b...
He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US
Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.
www.wired.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
NEW: A professor at Rutgers University who wrote a book about “antifa” almost a decade ago is trying—and struggling—to flee the US for Europe after a weeks-long online campaign against him by far-right influencers was followed by death threats. www.wired.com/story/mark-b...
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Nobel-winning economists Duflo and Banerjee will leave the US for Switzerland
Nobel-winning economists Duflo and Banerjee will leave the US for Switzerland
The University of Zurich said that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, known for their work in development economics, will move from the US to Switzerland, amid Donald Trump's attacks on universities.
www.lemonde.fr
October 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Nobel-winning economists Duflo and Banerjee will leave the US for Switzerland
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Felicitaciones, María Corina Machado, por recibir el Premio Nobel de la Paz.
This award honours not only your courage and conviction.
But every voice that refuses to be silenced. In Venezuela and across the world.
This award honours not only your courage and conviction.
But every voice that refuses to be silenced. In Venezuela and across the world.
October 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Felicitaciones, María Corina Machado, por recibir el Premio Nobel de la Paz.
This award honours not only your courage and conviction.
But every voice that refuses to be silenced. In Venezuela and across the world.
This award honours not only your courage and conviction.
But every voice that refuses to be silenced. In Venezuela and across the world.
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🏅 #NobelPrize | La reacción de María Corina Machado a su Nobel de la Paz: “Es el mayor reconocimiento a los venezolanos” dozz.es/9jjcu10
La reacción de María Corina Machado a su Nobel de la Paz: “Es el mayor reconocimiento a los venezolanos” | Vídeo
La líder opositora, que lleva más de un año escondida, ha expresado su sorpresa por el Nobel de la Paz y ha incidido en reconocer la labor de todos los ciudadanos en su país
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October 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🏅 #NobelPrize | La reacción de María Corina Machado a su Nobel de la Paz: “Es el mayor reconocimiento a los venezolanos” dozz.es/9jjcu10
The first 30 minutes of this lecture provide a great overview of the journey of data warehouse technology from the 1990s to the 2020s. "Modern OLAP Database Systems (CMU Advanced Database Systems)" - https://youtu.be/5J-I8Mj8tss
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October 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The first 30 minutes of this lecture provide a great overview of the journey of data warehouse technology from the 1990s to the 2020s. "Modern OLAP Database Systems (CMU Advanced Database Systems)" - https://youtu.be/5J-I8Mj8tss
From an article in today’s Guardian. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
October 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
From an article in today’s Guardian. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Listen to 2024 ACM Prize in Computing recipient Torsten Hoefler share how he tries to bridge academia and industry for societal impact . Full episode here or wherever you get your podcast: learning.acm.org/bytecast/ep7...
#ACMByteCast #computing
#ACMByteCast #computing
October 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Listen to 2024 ACM Prize in Computing recipient Torsten Hoefler share how he tries to bridge academia and industry for societal impact . Full episode here or wherever you get your podcast: learning.acm.org/bytecast/ep7...
#ACMByteCast #computing
#ACMByteCast #computing
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Coming up next week! Our "Getting Started with R for Research" course offers a clear, beginner-friendly start to R and RStudio with practical data wrangling.
📆 Thurs 25 Sept & 2nd October
🔗 https://edin.ac/4n8pM2W
📆 Thurs 25 Sept & 2nd October
🔗 https://edin.ac/4n8pM2W
September 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Coming up next week! Our "Getting Started with R for Research" course offers a clear, beginner-friendly start to R and RStudio with practical data wrangling.
📆 Thurs 25 Sept & 2nd October
🔗 https://edin.ac/4n8pM2W
📆 Thurs 25 Sept & 2nd October
🔗 https://edin.ac/4n8pM2W
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"Trump is using the full power of his office to punish people and organisations who criticise him.
There's a word for that - authoritarian."
If you think this is just about Jimmy Kimmel, you are missing the point.
@maitlis.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/if-y...
There's a word for that - authoritarian."
If you think this is just about Jimmy Kimmel, you are missing the point.
@maitlis.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/if-y...
‘If you think this is about Kimmel being cancelled - you’re missing the point’ | The News Agents
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel has been taken off-air “indefinitely” after making comments about Donald Trump’s response to the murder of Charlie Kirk. Is this about free speech? Cancel culture? Or is i...
www.thenewsagents.co.uk
September 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"Trump is using the full power of his office to punish people and organisations who criticise him.
There's a word for that - authoritarian."
If you think this is just about Jimmy Kimmel, you are missing the point.
@maitlis.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/if-y...
There's a word for that - authoritarian."
If you think this is just about Jimmy Kimmel, you are missing the point.
@maitlis.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/if-y...
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Braucht ihr eigentlich wirklich Disney+? Nee, wa? You have friends everywhere, Jimmy Kimmel. youtube.com/shorts/dzCgY...
Bye bye Disney
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September 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Braucht ihr eigentlich wirklich Disney+? Nee, wa? You have friends everywhere, Jimmy Kimmel. youtube.com/shorts/dzCgY...