I've spent the past ~2 years thinking about building on top of object storage, especially about trying to build high throughput low latency OLAP-like systems. So I wrote down some of my thoughts and lessons >>>

Imagine China defeated the US in war and forced us to sign a treaty that would ensure a century of Chinese dominion in science and tech. I wonder what they would they put in that treaty. Clearly, they'd want to gut our manufacturing base. Maybe they'd force US manufacturers to

Announcing Axiom: Eliminating drug toxicity, without using animals! Alex Beatson and I founded Axiom a little over over a year ago with the mission of eliminating drug toxicity by replacing traditional experiments, such as animal testing, with AI models. We are excited to

The new Pope has a degree in mathematics from Villanova University. This guy doesn’t just understand sin. He understands cos.

Love this! 🚀🇺🇸

Hopefully a joke. Because if not REALLY REALLY fucking bad idea.

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Let me explain the problems w Zohran's housing policy: 1) The units that are rent-stabilized will deteriorate and fall into disrepair; when rent is frozen, there is less incentive for landlords to do needed maintenance––and in some cases, landlords just can't make the economics

Hot off the presses: I recorded my talk from this week about Accelerating Query Performance of Apache Parquet using Specialized Indexes: youtu.be/74YsJT1-Rdk

Props to Glauber Costa, proof that the internet can still be serendipitous & wonderful: turso.tech/blog/working-o…

My fellow New Yorkers…

It is funny that both Zohran’s haters and his fans are deeply committed to the idea he won on the backs of multiracial working class coalition when his strongest soldiers were college educated 30 something $100k+ income white guy lmao

I think the “shell-qui-hires” (Scale, Windsurf, etc) is one of the worst things to ever happen to startups The point of a startup is there’s assurance of binded fate “shell-qui-hires” undo that bindings As a founder, it’s your job to get everyone home. Full stop.

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I’m thrilled to share that Forward Deployed Venture Capital has raised a $45M Fund 2 for mission-critical startups! We’re backed by the Palantir Mafia: a motley crew of 150+ operators, hackers, designers, spies, machine learning scientists, classification experts, government contracting officers,

tldr: the cutting edge in open-source file formats is now a Linux Foundation project 🚀🚀🚀

Congrats to Will Manning and the Spiral team for getting Vortex hosted by the Linux Foundation! linuxfoundation.org/press/lf-ai-da… More great innovation in the data and analytics space with this file format. I've been watching this project for a while and this group cooks.

Our CTO Nicholas Gates wrote a blog post on donating Vortex (vortex) to the Linux Foundation, and what's next for the project

"Can every system perform an effective push-down? How do we leverage ephemeral caches to accelerate workloads? How can we maximize throughput from object storage and saturate GPU bandwidth?" spiraldb dot com /careers