Joe Hellerstein
@joehellerstein.bsky.social
Computer things @Berkeley and music things elsewhere.
Wow! @arvind.bsky.social giving an awesome keynote including discussion of VegaExpress and GoFish interactive vis libraries from his group. #EPICRetreat #UCBerkeley.
April 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Wow! @arvind.bsky.social giving an awesome keynote including discussion of VegaExpress and GoFish interactive vis libraries from his group. #EPICRetreat #UCBerkeley.
Here’s a provocative example from JD Zamfirescu-Pereira on ways that humans and LLMs can get misaligned on expectations. Is the LLM lying? Is it just emitting tokens? How do people interpret this? #EPICRetreat #UCBerkeley.
April 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Here’s a provocative example from JD Zamfirescu-Pereira on ways that humans and LLMs can get misaligned on expectations. Is the LLM lying? Is it just emitting tokens? How do people interpret this? #EPICRetreat #UCBerkeley.
GPT4o did better:
February 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
GPT4o did better:
The question: "what are examples of commutative functions that are not associative?"
GPT4 was funny, thinking aloud and then proving itself wrong:
GPT4 was funny, thinking aloud and then proving itself wrong:
February 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The question: "what are examples of commutative functions that are not associative?"
GPT4 was funny, thinking aloud and then proving itself wrong:
GPT4 was funny, thinking aloud and then proving itself wrong:
2025. What a time to be alive!
January 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
2025. What a time to be alive!
Sunset over SF looked promising again today so we went down to the bay to take it in.
December 3, 2024 at 6:20 AM
Sunset over SF looked promising again today so we went down to the bay to take it in.
Sunset over SF was stellar today.
December 2, 2024 at 4:01 AM
Sunset over SF was stellar today.
The legendary Phil Bernstein talking @BerkeleySky about his work in sw libraries for DPUs. Phil was paving the way for relational DBs and transactions in the 70s, and is still doing deep, detailed technical work. @Berkeley_EECS @BerkeleyDataSci
November 1, 2024 at 7:44 PM
The legendary Phil Bernstein talking @BerkeleySky about his work in sw libraries for DPUs. Phil was paving the way for relational DBs and transactions in the 70s, and is still doing deep, detailed technical work. @Berkeley_EECS @BerkeleyDataSci
HT Remy Wang, UCLA.
September 28, 2023 at 5:43 PM
HT Remy Wang, UCLA.
Berkeley Data Systems and Foundations (DSF) in the house! With special guests from the awesome Simons Institute semester of database theory (HT NEU db group).
September 28, 2023 at 1:47 AM
Berkeley Data Systems and Foundations (DSF) in the house! With special guests from the awesome Simons Institute semester of database theory (HT NEU db group).