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SQL, Poetry, Apples, LLMs, Babies
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How Honeycrisp Apples Went From Marvel to Mediocre
Apple growers very possibly over-invested in the Honeycrisp crop without truly understanding that they likely couldn’t deliver a premium product year-round on such a large scale—especially with such a capricious variety grown outside its native zone. For many consumers, the Honeycrisp crop of today has not lived up to the apple’s reputation, and for the first time ever, there is an oversupply of Honeycrisp apples.
When building applications with LLMs, we recommend finding the simplest solution possible, and only increasing complexity when needed. This might mean not building agentic systems at all. Agentic systems often trade latency and cost for better task performance.
Postgres Docs: Don’t Do This/Common Mistakes
PostgreSQL folds all names - of tables, columns, functions and everything else - to lower case unless they're "double quoted".
So create table Foo() will create a table called foo, while create table "Bar"() will create a table called Bar.
I'm All-In on Server-Side SQLite
SQLite has a subset of the Postgres feature set. But that subset is 99.9% of what I typically need. Great SQL support, windowing, CTEs, full-text search, JSON. And when it lacks a feature, the data is already next to my application. So there’s little overhead to pull it in and process it in my code.
What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres
Normalize your data unless you have a good reason not to
Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History
Countries of the past, rulers and kings, battles, famous people of the era - all after you pick a place on a map, set a year on a time slider.
A collection of one-off actions that improve your life continuously — however marginally.
Drill holes in your keys
Turn off in-app rating request popups
Print off a QR code for guests to join your WiFi network
So recently I started to think that sorted sets can inspire a new data type, where the score is actually a vector. And while I was in talks with Rowan, I started to write a design document, then I started to implement a proof of concept of the new data structure, reimplementing HNSWs from scratch (instead of using one of the available libraries, since I wanted to tune every little bit), the Redis way
I opened the app dozens of times throughout the dreamy yet punishing expanse of a day, the tracker neatly converting our care back into minutes and hours, which had otherwise lost all meaning.
The Anarchist and the Hockey Stick
That’s why it’s always a con whenever people dig up silly-sounding studies to prove that the government is wasting money on science. They’ll be like “Can you believe they’re PAYING PEOPLE to SCOOP OUT PART OF A CAT’S BRAIN and then SEE IF IT CAN STILL WALK ON A TREADMILL???” And then it turns out the research is about how to help people walk again after they have a spinal cord injury. A lot of research is bad, but the goofiness of its one-sentence summary is not a good indication of its quality.
Hacker News Debate on Kubernetes
You really don't want to be setting up and managing a cluster from scratch for anything less than a datacenter-scale operation. If you are already on a cloud provider just use their managed Kubernetes offering instead.
