Monday, November 13, 2023
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Entropy: 50 Shades of Smarty Pants
If a chatbot writes a complete essay from a short prompt, the entropy of the essay must be exactly that of the initial prompt, no matter the length of the final product.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) September 8, 2023
Friday, October 6, 2023
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Larry Ellison Oracle CloudWorld 2024
Ellison touts RDMA - Remote Data Memory Access Network - developed for connecting its DBs - for connecting Nvidia GPUS in Oracle Cloud. https://t.co/iLiRi93A7f via @YouTube
— Jack Vaughan (@JackIVaughan) September 20, 2023
Ellison said Oracle will add AI Vector Search to Oracle Database 23c. Includes a new vector data type, vector indexes, and vector search SQL operators for storing unstructured data as vectors. Goal: Run fast similarity queries. pic.twitter.com/lKOUpzf9rB
— Jack Vaughan (@JackIVaughan) September 20, 2023
The Rest of the Story: Five years ago Ellison also said the autonomous database was very cool. What he didnt say then was "it was not used by a majority of our customers. Even inside Oracle it wasn't used by Fusion, or NetSuite." #CloudWorld2023 pic.twitter.com/ITJ0ZCsvaP
— Jack Vaughan (@JackIVaughan) September 20, 2023