Stories by tosh

EagleX 7B with 1.7T tokens beats llama2 7B (2T tokens) on English evals

Meta Velox: A C++ vectorized database acceleration library

ScyllaDB: NoSQL data store using the seastar framework

Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition (2015)

Apple ‎Vision Pro: Apps and Games

Non-Uniform Memory Access

SAP HANA

Operating System Support for Database Management (1981) [pdf]

Researchers, please replace SQLite with DuckDB now

Rows Are Made for Sorting and That's Just What We'll Do (2023) [pdf]

NYC TLC trip record data is a nice training dataset for Data Engineers (2019)

Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder

Algorithms for Modern Hardware

McDonald's hit by 'technology outage' in UK, Australia, Japan and China

McDonald's outage shuts some restaurants globally

Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards

HuggingFace adds special support for GGUF

Data.table: R's data.table package extends data.frame

HyPer: Hybrid OLTP and OLAP High-Performance Database

ClickHouse: Query Execution Pipeline