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garrensmith.bsky.social
Founding Engineer @ Tigris Data, CouchDB PMC - databases and distributed systems. Father, mountain biker, climber and musician
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Shelley Tonkin Smith took my photos of otters and wrote an awesome blog post How AI Turns Photos into Nature Lessons 🦦 Link: shelleytonkinsmith.substack.com/p/beyond-the... #ai #photos #canon

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The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain. Well not always. I wrote a post about using AI to transform a phrase using different tones. open.substack.com/pub/shelleyt...

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How do large language models get so large? Let's dig in: https://buff.ly/3Ctofmo

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Foundations of Large language models arxiv.org/abs/2501.09223 For those looking for a deep dive into LLM's

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Turning learning into a Video Project shelleytonkinsmith.substack.com/p/turn-learn...

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S3 (Iceberg) Tables is everything I dreamt of, and more. I blogged some long-form thoughts: meltware.com/2024/12/04/s... I think we're about to see an explosion of data tools (@materialize.com, @clickhouse.com, @duckdb.org, et al.) learn to write Iceberg tables via S3 table buckets. #databs

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What is (so special about) Learning in Depth? shelleytonkinsmith.substack.com/p/what-is-so...

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New blog post on the fun new hardware advancements which databases can leverage for great gains, and why the cloud means it doesn't matter that they exist. 🫠 transactional.blog/b...

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The disaggregated wal blog.schmizz.net/disaggregate...

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My favourite read of the day: The Mirthful Assyriologist, the Real Noah's Ark, and the Oldest Writing in the World www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-mirthf...

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I wrote this a while ago but never shared it here: Strategies for getting involved in open-source garrensmith.com/Opensource/O...

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How we built object notifications in Tigris https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/how-we-built-object-notifications

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pg_analytics is now licensed under the PG license! (It used to be AGPL.) Now you can use it everywhere. 😀 thanks ParadeDB!

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A good overview on how LLM's work. Bonus points for trying out "the cat sat on the ..." example with your local LLM www.jlowin.dev/blog/an-intu...

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New post! I think we’re on the cusp of very portable VMs. materializedview.io/...

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I'm excited to share a new Tigris Data feature I've been working on: object notifications! This allows you to receive updates when objects in your bucket change. If you curious on how we implemented it? I've written a post about it: www.tigrisdata.com/blog/how-we-...

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I was sceptical about coding with AI. I reluctantly tried Cursor and now I'm not sure I could code without it. It's like a sidekick that wants to do the grudge work and give me new ideas.

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I send out a monthly change log email that contains the latest notes from my public notes along with book recommendations and online articles I've enjoyed. Latest one is here buttondown.email/garren/archi... If you enjoyed it please spread the work.

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Zebras in the sunset. A photo from last weeks vacation.

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