The Great CPU Stagnation(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

237 points by greghn 3 years ago | 197 comments

SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

550 points by greghn 2 years ago | 370 comments

Database Architects blog post arguing that local SSD throughput has exploded with PCIe 5.0 while cloud instance storage performance has stagnated.

B-Trees Require Fewer Comparisons Than Balanced Binary Search Trees(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

155 points by greghn 2 years ago | 67 comments

Comparing Integers and Doubles(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

19 points by pfent 11 months ago | 9 comments

Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

461 points by greghn 1 year ago | 103 comments

Blog post describing solving every Advent of Code 2024 puzzle in pure SQL, with a full recursive-query solution for one day shown as an example.

C++ exception performance three years later(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

73 points by gpderetta 1 year ago | 51 comments

Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored(rachel.fast.ai)

549 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 134 comments

Rachel Thomas blog post on how a high-profile Nature paper using a Transformer to predict enzyme functions contained many errors that received far less attention than the original result.

Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale(dbos.dev)

83 points by KraftyOne 1 month ago | 26 comments

A DBOS blog post by Peter Kraft explaining why Postgres SELECT DISTINCT queries perform poorly at scale.

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)

353 points by tosh 2 years ago | 115 comments

A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.

SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

550 points by greghn 2 years ago | 370 comments

Database Architects blog post arguing that local SSD throughput has exploded with PCIe 5.0 while cloud instance storage performance has stagnated.

Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence(pub.sakana.ai)

113 points by hardmaru 14 days ago | 61 comments

Sakana AI and UC Berkeley research page introducing MASS, a method that optimizes multi-agent workflows and distills their collective intelligence as self-supervision for recursive self-improvement.

I write type-safe generic data structures in C(danielchasehooper.com)

395 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 162 comments

Daniel Hooper's blog post explaining a technique for writing type-safe generic data structures in C using unions to carry type information.