distilling knowledge from LLMs to brains ought to be extremely convenient for thinkers nowadays, but 'being thoughtful' will become an even rarer trait 🤔

i realized i do not have to put all my $HOME folder into my dotfiles. zsh & git & neovim are simply all i need, and nothing else is worth version controlling for me. 😲

o hai 💎 slatedb-rb :D github.com/catkins/slat...

just as 'User Experience' optimizes tools for humans, I suppose there will emerge a profession called 'AI Agent Experience' to optimize tools for AI agents in the coming years. AI Agents are waiting for their own Steve Jobs 🤔

Been thinking about this since it was shared with me yesterday, especially about how oppressively most organizations pressure managers (even senior ones) to stay in that persona rather than actually leading www.leadingsapiens.com/ics-managers...

made a note about how all these components around CSI interacts with each other to simply mount a EBS in k8s, surprisingly a mess of stuffs 😲

a metaphor I've been pondering: post-WWII nuclear tests irradiated the atmosphere, making all steel smelted after carried a background radiation. for high-precision instruments, you had to salvage pre-test steel from sunken ships.

startup idea

it’s crazy to see such a great outage from cloudflare, twitter was inaccessible for nearly 3 hours. luckily bluesky is still available at the moment 😲

The largest egocentric dataset. Egocentric (first person) video is a general learning framework that passively captures how skilled workers do their jobs. - 10,000 hours - 2,153 factory workers - 1,080,000,000 frames

i'm beginning to understand the appeal of HCL as a configuration format over YAML. HCL has built-in variables, effectively providing a native templating engine. with YAML, we often have to use macros just to battle the indentation and ensure the correct number of spaces with some Jinja variants. 😲

in my earlier understanding, distributed systems usually featured a fine-grained metadata service for cluster membership. however, I've recently noticed that many systems' implementations seem to prefer a fixed cluster design. 🤔 once the cluster is established, its membership becomes immutable.

i believe household chores should be considered internal domestic logistics. for instance, handling the movement of clothing between the washing machine, drying space, and wardrobe. or dishes moving between the dining table, dishwasher, and cupboard.. 🤔

For everyone interested in data infra, want to get a quick sense of how big data works, how data systems are designed, and what the tradeoffs are, start with this share from @xiangpeng.systems, really nice intro! intro-data-system.xiangpeng.systems

I do understand why so many articles talk about how vibe coding can destroy the joy of programming. however, I've never found that any joy exists in manually writing GitHub/Jenkins workflows. 🤔

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Calling database nerds in SF! I'm covering SlateDB at the systems meetup next Wednesday (10/29). If you're around, I'd love to meet you in person (that way you'll have proof I'm not just an AI bot). 👉 luma.com/e7feg2i6

AWS seems to have a major outage in the us-east-1 region right now 😵‍💫 health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

🤯 www.reuters.com/business/a16... #dataBS

modern LLM inference engines like vLLM & SGlang are becoming tough to dive into. to learn how these inference engines work, nano-vllm is a fantastic educational project—complete Page Attention & LLM scheduler in <1k loc.🤯 flaneur2020.github.io/posts/2025-1...

recently Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B has become my goto model for asking "how-to" questions in the work. it's not considered as a smart model but it's really dog fast 😲

what an amazing journey! after working through this step by step, we finally have a functional transaction API with SSI support. hope it proves useful! 😁

family mooncake 😋

He will give practical advice, and concrete criteria to consider, when choosing research projects, and making professional decisions, in these last few years before AGI." docs.google.com/presentation...

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You already know the answer, but it’s nice that someone put in the manual effort to create a benchmark Can AI file your taxes? No "TaxCalcBench: Evaluating Frontier Models on the Tax Calculation Task" Paper: www.arxiv.org/abs/2507.16126 Repo: github.com/column-tax/t...

Job update: a couple of weeks ago, I joined @tensorlake.ai full time. I’m having a lot of fun building the product with @diptanu.bsky.social and the rest of this wonderful team. We have a few open positions if you’d like to work with us: www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/...

On to new things! "Ingest, query, and share telemetry data with your engineers and customers at a fraction of the cost."

Regarding goroutine & unbuffered channel interaction, found myself repeating this multiple times. Maybe it's time to write it down for reference. Early return + unbuffered send = goroutine leak. rednafi.com/go/early_ret... #golang

1/ SlateDB v0.8 is now available! This is release includes OpenDAL object store support, serializable snapshot isolation, first-class Go bindings, Python binding improvements, deterministic simulation tests, performance improvements, and tons of bug fixes. Details below. 👇

2/ Snapshot isolation — @flaneur2024.bsky.social has been hard at work on snapshots/transactions. 0.8 now has `DbSnapshots`, which provide a consistent point-in-time DB view. Sequence numbers are now core to SlateDB and will be used for many features (including transactions) going forward.

it seems there's no gold-standard benchmark for coding models at the moment. imho, the only way to know if one is any good is to throw a (real world) task at it and see if it can handle it smoothly 🤔.

OpenDAL can now use object_store as its backend service 🥳! this allows users to leverage the out-of-box primitives from the OpenDAL operator, such as chunking / parallel fetching and caching on user-provided object_store instances github.com/apache/opend...

in the age of vibe coding, the measure of a top programmer should be how long they can get Claude Code to work continuously without human intervention. if you can get Claude to code independently for a full 24-hour workday, you deserve top dollar in the market 🤔

z.ai's slime It is built with native SGLang integration, carrying its full inference optimizations straight into training, is an LLM post-training framework for RL scaling, providing two core capabilities:

SlateDB now has snapshot support! so the next step will soon be (possibly SSI?) transactions 😁 github.com/slatedb/slat...

I went through DuckDB's WAL, and it does everything I was asking for in my blog post: 1. Per record checksum 2. Explicit error on checksum failure 3. Configurable behavior 4. Partial recovery 5. Safe truncation of the WAL only when WAL contents are checkpointed

yesterday a friend told me a narrative about why ResNet works so well， he said that some patterns can already be learned by a shallow, 3~4 layer FFN. when we naively stack more layers, the extra layers are forced to learn an `identity` function 🤔

recently Kimi K2 has become my most-used LLM for chatting. imo, the best part is that it does not think 😮. while thinking is useful to improve the final result, fast fact retrieval is often more valueable for me than more 'correct' answers.

made a Homebrew formula for FizzBee 😁, now we can install fizzbee with: brew tap fizzbee-io/fizzbee brew install fizzbee github.com/fizzbee-io/h...

📔Writing our Rust database from scratch gave us a golden opportunity to implement deterministic simulation testing as a core feature. Learn about the architecture that gives us full control over DST ingredients. 🧊 www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2...

Whew. This one was some work. It's still very simple, but already has found some interesting stuff.

i found what vibecode really does for me is help me jump in the first line of code earlier instead of overthinking everything.. i heard INTJ people tend to have trouble taking action until they've got everything perfectly planned out..

i have a bias that the more powerful a programmer is, the more fully they recognize the capabilities and potential of AI programming 🤔 antirez.com/news/154

this is obviously the use case where io_uring best showcase its capabilities 😲 tangled.sh/@rockorager....

So.. Pierre Barre just built an NFS server implementation on SlateDB. ZeroFS is today days old, but it's going to get wild. Bottomless storage and checkpoints mean instant FS snapshots (zero overhead). github.com/Barre/zerofs

excited to have finally gotten this RFC merged in SlateDB 😆. the implementation around this has already moved a lot github.com/slatedb/slat...

They research "What Makes a Base Language Model Suitable for RL?" or why RL on LLaMA consistently underperforms Qwen. Their key insights: - High-quality math data is key to RL scaling. - QA-style data helps, but it depends on task similarity. - Instruction data boosts QA’s effectiveness.