@sh_reya
Incoming assistant professor @CSDatCMU @CMUDB. Putting LLMs in databases and BI tools. Created http://docetl.org and http://evals.info.
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A quote post calls Hamel an exceptional fit for the work and expresses excitement about learning from his experience.
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A user predicts AI coding agents could let companies build their own data systems and significantly reduce compute bills.
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A user says candidates work through a 200–500-line codebase, with Gemini available for use.
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Quail's team says an example tagging 1,772 long agent traces used 3x fewer tokens and ran 2.6x faster.
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Polars says the release adds initial spill-to-disk support, a Map data type and performance improvements.
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A viewer discussing a Rippling case study says its data team still manually inspects agent queries and builds rollup tables when patterns emerge.
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A post says the API supports visual inputs and is tuned to make decisions in less than a few hundred milliseconds end to end.
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A post shares a wry delayed-response apology that blames “middling generative AI” for changing the war for attention.
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A user reports that a query took 6.84 hours with hand-tuned vLLM, versus a 15-minute “speed-of-light” estimate.
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A post describes AI-powered operators in SQL as “having their day in the sun.”
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A user argues that mathematics’ biggest impact will come from proofs for software, not the millennium problems, and sees automated research loops as a way to tackle verification at a billion-line scale.
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One post links their popularity to users wanting to avoid the work of training their own classifiers.
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One post argues that specialized inference engines can reuse vLLM or SGLang components, and suggests applications such as data processing may need specialized KV cache management.
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Weaviate Podcast describes a benchmark built by Shreya Shankar and colleagues with 54 queries spanning 12 datasets and four database systems, testing how AI agents answer questions across databases.
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One post connects the question of knowledge’s usefulness to the step-by-step automation of knowledge production.
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Adaption says the event will feature a member of its technical staff and an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon.
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Researcher notes AI operators in SQL now operational after earlier skepticism toward DocETL.
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Shreya Shankar posted that she manages four LLM subscriptions with a complex decision tree for tasks.
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Shreya Shankar and Hamel Husain discuss unintelligible outputs from recent models.