I love the charm of pre-genAI autosuggest

I'm at CPS-IoT Week in Irvine! cpsweek.org

Come say hi if you're around!

We are holding a tutorial on Brick and Playground (ICCPS'24) at CPS-IoT Week 2025 on May 6th morning, held at UC Irvine!

gtf.fyi/l/cpsiot25/

We'll be going over using Brick and Playground safely deploy building applications, complete with resource isolation constraints and dynamic access control.

Nice summary of the first "semantic tiger team" meeting by the Coalition for Smart Buildings (C4SB) through the Linux Foundation

www.automatedbuildings.com/2025/04/c4sb...

Sometimes I find myself extremely impressed with an LLM output and then I hate myself a little bit

Interesting Sunday morning read: an external history of Cyc and some of the symbolic AI work done over the decades of its development.

yuxi-liu-wired.github.io/essays/posts...

The new local UI for DuckDB is **awesome**. I love the integrated data viz

duckdb.org/2025/03/12/d...

Was forwarded this article by a colleague today as a counter-example to the FUD around AI and jobs. I think I understand the argument here—that we will use AI for tasks that it is comparatively better at—but... 1/

Calls for nominations on the first ACM SIGEnergy Achievement Award are open until April 1st

energy.acm.org/call-for-nom...

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org

Please show me how to disable your AI feature in your platform/app

The choice to define a "compose" operator and implement query plans using decorators is bizarre. Not quite syntactically correct in the middle either. Lines like "Table(selfother either entirely with the other table or only the left)" seem like some of the thoughts got left in the implementation 2/2

Playing with DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B on my Macbook in between meetings today and got this interesting output for a Python pull-based relational algebra implementation. 1/2

gist.github.com/gtfierro/1df...

I've set up a periodic web scraper that takes screenshots of certain federal websites every morning to see what has changed: github.com/gtfierro/eo-...

6/8. In science, and in institutions of learning like colleges and universities, there is a shared understanding that edicts should not go unquestioned—that we all have a duty to systematically investigate the world around us and to interrogate claims about it. We do not simply obey.

Was talking with one of my students this morning about designing a new query abstraction for a new hybrid graph-timeseries database platform, but he hadn't tried to run his tasks on existing graph and timeseries databases first.

Abstractions are born from pain, not from inspiration!

I enjoyed watching @simonwillison.net's interview on the Around the Prompt podcast (simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/2/t...), especially his point about how vital knowledge of software engineering and programming is to be productive with LLMs. As good as these models can be (1/n)

Now that this platform is blowing up, I should actually start using this account...

Hi everyone! I'm an assistant professor of Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines, working on databases, knowledge graphs, and GNNs for sustainability and cyber-physical systems / built environment.