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Comment · 1 month ago
Optimal plan construction is math-heavy, algorithm-heavy and vary even by workload. There are options like creating just-in-time indexes, so solution space grows even faster than article presents. Sometimes it is the query planner which is the slow part of total execution time.

LLM is kind of blunt weapon to use here. I am waiting rather for alphago style neural net heuristic.

Comment · 2 months ago
It uses copy-and-patch compilation to archive that
Comment · 2 months ago
For Pixel drivers, is there something that prevents Google from relicensing them to proprietary and not share any source at all?
Comment · 2 months ago
Many essential metabolic enzymes require metal ions for catalysis, structure, or substrate binding. So in some sense the dependence is still there, we just learned to take bits of substrate with us while travelling.
Comment · 3 months ago
There is a famously counterintuitive conjecture about demand and supply named "Jevon's paradox". For compute it held so far.
Comment · 3 months ago
Incredible. Thank you for posting that. What software do you use for phone calls?
Comment · 3 months ago
Does encrypted memory give ECC-like detection benefit, along with rowhammer protection, for cheaper cost (only additional computation), and 100% reliable?
Comment · 3 months ago
Nobody tried planet-scale geo engineering before, as far as I understand the opinions on it's effectiveness vary.
Comment · 3 months ago
2% of country's people working together is a successful revolution
Comment · 5 months ago
The latest moves from google are the damning smoking gun evidence that anti monopoly court ever needs. "Do this or else". Recaptcha, gmail, google suite, android, chrome, colab and even google play must be viable businesses on their own, separate from google ads machine. Gmail must start competing for users with other email providers. And, yes, recaptcha must pay its infrastructure cost in full only from recaptcha revenue. This is the good way to level playing field, silence all the critics and let air into the room.
Comment · 9 months ago
>Dolphin held a pleasant surprise: it could detect my iPhone when it was plugged in. This made it a snap to transfer files to and from my phone as the file manager granted full file access to the iPhone

Wait, what? Is this true? Since when?

Comment · 9 months ago
When NPU will become available in most systems, we will see learned indexes like in https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.01208v1 on client side.

If file search indexes and such will be replaced by neural networks, this will be small but measurable improvement in battery life, speed and memory usage.

Comment · 10 months ago
There are chemiseries and metabolisms out there beyond our wildest imaginations

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