Great, this is a good looking query. But what happens when you move beyond this trivial example, and use Gemini for text-to-SQL against a real world database and on real-world user questions? It turns out that the problem is more … Read more
“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them” Pablo Picasso People who are unfamiliar with Celtic coins sometimes describe them as crude or barbarous, suggesting that the Celts were unskilled artists. On the contrary, the archaeological … Read more
What does it mean to get things done? In the abstract, you can complete a mathematical proof or a problem set, but the real world is much fuzzier. Suppose I plant a tree in my backyard. Once the sapling is … Read more
Three years ago, I was part of a team responsible for developing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters for end user customers. A main source for downtime in customer environments occurred when image registries went down. The traditional way to solve this … Read more
Getting zapped with millions of volts of electricity may not sound like a healthy activity, but for some trees, it is. A new study, published in New Phytologist, reports that some tropical tree species are not only able to tolerate … Read more
Here in the northern hemisphere the vernal equinox just passed and the days are quickly getting longer. One of my colleagues lives in Stavanger, Norway. Our team’s semi-weekly standup is at 6:30pm his time, so I’ve been accustomed to seeing … Read more
They won’t be able to find bugs in your code if they can’t figure out how it works. In the previous installment of our introductory series about the C language, we introduced the syntax of the switch() statement (demo link): … Read more
Nadia Odunayo has been so often the smiling face on the door of this event, but did you know she’s the founder and (more impressively!) one woman development team behind The StoryGraph, a reading community of over a million book … Read more
July 29, 2024 Category theory is a fascinating and unreasonably powerful tool for thinking about computation, transformation, and relationships between things in the world. That makes it useful for mathematicians, computer scientists, and philosophers alike. I’ve struggled through learning a … Read more
YOU OPEN BOX 34, take the typescript from its folder. You can see right away that the song is pretty much finished. He’s got the first four verses locked in, save one lingering question about Ma. Should she be forty … Read more