“What Goes Around Comes Around... And Around...” by Stonebraker and Pavlo is such an insightful paper. Tons of wisdom!

Curiously, they skipped timeseries databases. I am not sure but maybe timeseries databases are columnar stores, use vectorization etc so not much differentiation from OLAP. This reminds me to take a look at what kind of storage engines these databases use (InfluxDB uses some variant of LSM called Time-structured Merge Tree).

https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2024/whatgoesaround-sigmodrec2024.pdf

The densely packed globular cluster NGC 2210, which is situated in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), about 157,000 light-years from Earth. We are seeing what this cluster looked like when Homo sapiens started exhibiting behavioural modernity i.e. traits like abstract thinking, art, music, dance!

https://cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/H6UMGYLR3ROBPDLKH4V7H4YNQA.jpg

There is a reason you should not ignore people with rare skills: they are rare! Very hard to replace!

Too much T20-style #cricket has undermined Indian team’s batting skills.

Can they overcome difficult situations in SENA countries? It already looks very depressing for Indian cricket fans as it is very likely we will see another whitewash in the upcoming BGT series in Australia.

https://youtu.be/nG86QnIrm3U?si=G58XfPudGTQ2Vczc

दीपावली की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं!

In the spirit of #deepawali may we be able to attain knowledge over ignorance.

As an example of ages-old Indian endeavour of skeptical questioning, I am reminded of Nāsadīya Sūkta from the Rigveda (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasadiya_…)

On YouTube because you either die in Big Tech or in the long tail grave yard.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IBjLYwJ0hj8

Trying out Mastodon!