Max Seiden

serenading the tubes with careless whispers. he/him. Rust :: SQL @sigmacomputing

[Dani Grant @thedanigrant]

"Move fast and break things" is outdated advice for startups.

Software ate the world—and there's more competition than ever.

Our startup learned the hard way to ignore this advice, and this is what happened:

[Max Seiden @maxseiden]

- landscaping in tx
- gigs 🎷
- social cooking app (uni)
- event discovery app (uni)
- 3d/ar audio research (uni)
- web rap battle app (uni)
- kpcb fellow (intern)
- michigan hackers founder (uni)
- many webaudio toys
- ncg at platfora
- 2 weeks at workday
- programmer at sigma

[Sam Pullara @sampullara]

- dishwasher -> head cook
- data entry at a bank
- qa at a manufacturing company
- uni computer lab support
- theoretical physics fellowship
- transunion, rpcs/middleware
- searle burning dbs to cd
- weblogic server engineer
- accel eir
- gauntlet systems founder
- chief architect of borland
- chief technologist of yahoo
- benchmark eir
- bagcheck founder
- twitter engineer
- vc

[Max Seiden @maxseiden]

@dadrian

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If you decline to go on a friend’s private plane that…endangers the friendship? Interesting worldview these folks have…

[Jake Hannan @_jhannan]

can't wait to read this one!

creds → @maxseiden

[Max Seiden @maxseiden]

@mim_djo 🙂 lots of room for improvement

[Nathan Goldwag 🇺🇦 @GoldwagNathan]

This......isn't true? It was trained on databases including chemistry knowledge and if you query it, it will regurgitate that knowledge in the facsimile of an answer that may or may not be factually correct.

[Max Seiden @maxseiden]

@frasergeorgew Did any of the DuckDB queries spill to disk or did the whole benchmark run in-core?

[VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏 @VCBrags]

big week ahead for venture capitalists finding ways to take credit for things they had nothing to do with

[Max Seiden @maxseiden]

@mim_djo @teej_m From looking at your performance numbers and checking out some of the SF query plans, it looks like they also do an excellent job executing star schema optimizations.

In at least one of the plans aggressive (bloom?) filters resulted in scanning only 0.2% of the lineitem fact.

[Max Seiden @maxseiden]

@mim_djo @teej_m That's almost certainly the case. If you want a deep dive "The Design and Implementation of Modern
Column-Oriented Database Systems" from Daniel Abadi discusses a lot of these techniques in excellent detail.

[Max Seiden @maxseiden]

@Shadowherb 6÷2(1+2) = 6(1/2)(1+2) 🥸

[Max Seiden @maxseiden]

@sampullara @itunpredictable last time I was there a golden retriever was sitting on a bar stool

[Radley Balko @radleybalko]

I never said Jews should be eradicated from public life. I said *Judaism* should be eradicated from public life.

I may be a buffoonish bigot who stirs rubes to violence, but my cowardice demands a smidgeon of plausible deniability. And you, sir, have libeled me by omitting it.

[Max Seiden @maxseiden]

You almost always want jsonlines because it's very efficient to stream reads and writes.

The format enables very low memory consumption for arbitrarily large files. It also enables programs to easily pause io at record boundaries which is a major boon to concurrency.

[» teej @teej_m]

@matsonj jsonlines

[Kate @thingskatedid]

type systems are gender for your binary