Readit NewsWhat’s a good tutorial for someone who knows how to program but doesn’t know the various SQL commands and gotchas?
I found https://duckdb.org/why_duckdb but I'm sure someone here can share some real world lessons learned?
the other big thing is better native data types, especially dates. With SQLite if you want to work with timeseries you need to do your own date/time casting.
Mike Bostock will be doing an AMA at the end if you have burning d3v6 questions (though you can expect some more documentation on upgrading to come very soon!)
I'll also plug our other two speakers, Mike Freeman and Amelia Wattenberger who are amazing d3 educators & authors.
It's exciting that this is the first big online d3 meetup since the pandemic put a stop to in-person events, and as a consequence of being online anyone can participate!
(reference to the Three Body Problem, an awesome book)
All of the functionality in d3 is split up into smaller modules that can be required independently.
In the 1970's a few dozen brilliant people could create a completely new and self-contained computer system because the entire computing world was tiny and fragmented. there wasn't the imperative to be compatible to all-pervasive standards (even IBM's dominance in business was being challenged by the minis).
These day if you want to create a new computer system that people will use you need at the minimum to provide a networking stack and a functional web browser, some emulation or compatibility system to support legacy software that people rely on, device drivers for a huge range of hardware, etc. All this not only takes a huge amount of work, it also punctures the design integrity of your system, making it into a huge mountain of compatibility hacks before you even start on your own new concepts. But the deadliest enemy of innovation is the mental inertia of masses of users with a long history of interacting with computers. They are no longer the blank slates who have never seen a computer you had in the 70's.
Even in the realm of art people realized that the romantic or modernistic model of artistic revolution that Kay invokes is untenable and retreated into postmodernism.
Second, disclaimer: I am not now and might never be a serious algebraic and/or differential geometer. Just a fan at the moment.
I've been calling the useful transformations in LLM latent manifolds things like "substantially affine", and I think that's probably true enough of the current crop.
I don't think this about `{V, I}-JEPA` (about which there's a lot of information and I plan to look into it a lot more) or Sora (about which there is less information but is still impressive AF). One imagines that `V-JEPA` and Sora have some deep parallels/symmetries.
Either way, I'll wager that serious Riemannian geometry is rapidly on it's way to table stakes. We have extreme high-dimension spaces that result from backprop and gradient descent, some combination of smooth/continuous/differentiable/compact seem pretty likely to fall out? Along with interesting curvature tensors and parallel transport for moving around in them? And TDA for figuring it out numerically/computationally?
I'd love if an expert chimed in, I'm trying to describe an intuition with a fluency that involves pointing and gesturing.