Link Dump
A bunch of interesting white papers and blog posts I've found online.
If a paper is interesting enough, I'll write more about it in the future.
2024-11-24
I use Postgres and other row based databases pretty extensively, so I was interested to see how columnar based databases worked.
I've tried out DuckDB, a columnar based database, and Alloy DB, which can store data in both row and columnar formats. I've seen awesome performance with both for massive analytical queries, often an order of magnitude faster than baseline Postgres.
I understand why people anthropomorphize things like LLMs, it makes them a lot easier to talk about. But because the language being used is so non-specific, people misunderstand what those tools are for and how they work.
I've built a few "AI" systems before, mostly computer-vision based, so I generally understand how "AI" models work.