Benjamin Wootton

Freelance Consultant - Real Time Analytics With ClickHouse

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@Madisonkanna Are you seeing large enterprise starting to use these yet or is it mainly AI companies and startups?

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@SergioGarc20223 You guys need better PR advice.

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@whitey_xyz This is very standard in the UK. If you are 16 and working then 95% chance you are making a contribution even if you are from a wealthy family. It’s more about the lesson than the money.

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@girdley Might the best product, but it’s the most insanely priced product I’ve ever encountered.

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@JPoehnelt That’s crazy. The market was crying out for something like this and it was really well executed. Says more about Google than you.

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@BlakeR2025 @skiplacombe @StubHub Livefootballtickets have served me well for 6 years. No affiliation but I’ve bought huge games through them and no problems whatsoever. Stubhub on the other hand…

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@mikejulian Do you think large enterprise will adopt these platforms medium/long term? Have been trying to work that out myself.

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@TEDDY127_ Qatar was great in that you could visit 3 games in a day rather than needing to travel for hours between matches.

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@TheJoeySwoll That guy looks younger than me and he’s already an object of ridicule. How depressing!

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@ContAltRepeat @archer_rs And common to exchange and complete on the same day

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@DeanCornish1966 Agree! I attended the last two and they were great, but this one feels like a real money grab and I wouldn’t support it on principle.

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@coreyganim How do you reliably connect to your email? None of the MCPs seem very reliable or good.

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@ericosiu Nobody is paying 30x revenue or profit for a services firm. 2.5x revenue is an outlier.

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@chamath Not sure it's as complicated as this. It's hidden cleaning fees, poor customer service, prices more expensive than hotels, inconsistent experience etc.

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@barrettjoneill Disagree. I vibe coded my own CRM, Timesheet system, invoices. Total time invested 1 day. $500/month saved but more importantly something totally customised to my workflow. +1 would do again.

[ClickHouse @ClickHouseDB]

Yesterday we showed the result.

Today we show the engineering behind it.

ClickHouse is 26× faster on TPC-H SF100 after two years of focused join work:
• correlated subqueries
• runtime filters
• lazy column replication
• statistics-based join reordering

https://t.co/ZWC7Dgu3FB

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@uncreativetom Ha, thought I was the only one.

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@theonejvo @UseCorgi Parody actually - https://t.co/Xo8tksUaqu

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Maybe that culture is fine for you at linear, and it looks like it’s working great for you! You’ve created something worth over a billion dollars in 7 short years, that’s something very few people on the planet have done before.

But sometimes there are big problems that need solving, and there is more creative thinking, not less, that happens with contact with the big problems. In our case, creating the financial operating system that owns the creation, transfer, financing, and investment of risk, using AI to automate the paperwork of the most regulated entities to make every business and person a little more profitable, waste a lot less time, and be more protected, is a big problem.

Maybe there were super geniuses at the Manhattan Project working 1 day per week like zen masters. I doubt it though, because if you’re obsessed with a problem, you work hard. Nowhere did I or do I glorify lack of sleep (I always think sleeping right and exercise are very important), and different people have different visions, cadences, and ways they want to run their companies. And that’s ok, but you attacking our style based upon sound bites when we are solving a really important problem, by market sizing probably the biggest problem large language models can solve, isn’t it.

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@theonejvo @UseCorgi Neither, it's a joke.

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@Wozz77 I’ve been to the last two world cups and loved them, but they’ve made this one so expensive (or the resellers have had a field day) that I wouldn’t travel on principle.