Hacker News: greghn

Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL

greghn — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:20:50 +0000

Article URL: http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2024/12/advent-of-code-2024-in-pure-sql.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42577736

Points: 484

# Comments: 107

New comment by greghn in "7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025"

greghn — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:58:32 +0000

> Names do have meaning, and I have to wonder why they went with that one.

"CockroachDB gets its name from cockroaches, as they are known for being disaster-resistant.[5]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CockroachDB

How fast can you parse a CSV file in C#?

greghn — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 17:38:10 +0000

Article URL: https://lemire.me/blog/2024/10/17/how-fast-can-you-parse-a-csv-file-in-c/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41964200

Points: 25

# Comments: 11

How fast can you parse a CSV file in C#?

greghn — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:07:10 +0000

Article URL: https://lemire.me/blog/2024/10/17/how-fast-can-you-parse-a-csv-file-in-c/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41875104

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

From Software to Reality?

greghn — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:36:05 +0000

Article URL: https://lemire.me/blog/2024/10/09/from-software-to-reality/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41870082

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Apple study proves LLM-based AI models are flawed because they cannot reason

greghn — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 23:50:27 +0000

Article URL: https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/10/12/apples-study-proves-that-llm-based-ai-models-are-flawed-because-they-cannot-reason

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41823822

Points: 44

# Comments: 19

Geoffrey Hinton, the Godfather of Deep Learning, Wins Nobel Prize in Physics

greghn — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:58:34 +0000

Article URL: https://lemire.me/blog/2024/10/08/geoffrey-hinton-the-godfather-of-deep-learning-wins-nobel-prize-in-physics/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41777461

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

The PhD Paradox: A Journey into Academia's Upside-Down World

greghn — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:15:27 +0000

Article URL: https://lemire.me/blog/2024/09/11/the-phd-paradox-a-journey-into-academias-upside-down-world/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41582663

Points: 35

# Comments: 16

B-Trees Require Fewer Comparisons Than Balanced Binary Search Trees

greghn — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:06:42 +0000

Article URL: http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2024/06/b-trees-require-fewer-comparisons-than.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40768418

Points: 191

# Comments: 74

A Culture of Envy

greghn — Sat, 11 May 2024 22:03:25 +0000

Article URL: https://lemire.me/blog/2014/08/11/a-culture-of-envy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40330914

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

How quickly can you break a long string into lines?

greghn — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 19:00:45 +0000

Article URL: https://lemire.me/blog/2024/04/19/how-quickly-can-you-break-a-long-string-into-lines/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40190907

Points: 5

# Comments: 3

Some Shortcomings of CSRankings

greghn — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 09:05:20 +0000

Article URL: https://data-mining.philippe-fournier-viger.com/some-shortcomings-of-csrankings/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40155153

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

How quickly can you break a long string into lines?

greghn — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:08:15 +0000

Article URL: https://lemire.me/blog/2024/04/19/how-quickly-can-you-break-a-long-string-into-lines/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40145265

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

How quickly can you break a long string into lines?

greghn — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 22:36:42 +0000

Article URL: https://lemire.me/blog/2024/04/19/how-quickly-can-you-break-a-long-string-into-lines/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40123296

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Avi Wigderson Receives 2023 ACM A.M. Turing Award

greghn — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:32:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ias.edu/news/avi-wigderson-2023-acm-am-turing-award

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39989966

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Boosted Tree Predictions in SQL

greghn — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 02:00:24 +0000

Article URL: https://foldl.de/blogs/re/re-gbm-sql.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39812264

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Passing recursive C++ lambdas as function pointers

greghn — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 17:46:07 +0000

Article URL: https://lemire.me/blog/2024/03/22/passing-recursive-c-lambdas-as-function-pointers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39808822

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Towards an Objective Metric for Data Value Through Relevance [pdf]

greghn — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 18:43:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2024/papers/p66-glavic.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39661457

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Some Shortcomings of CSRankings

greghn — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 04:21:08 +0000

Article URL: https://data-mining.philippe-fournier-viger.com/some-shortcomings-of-csrankings/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39656679

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Some Shortcomings of CSRankings

greghn — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 02:52:12 +0000

Article URL: https://data-mining.philippe-fournier-viger.com/some-shortcomings-of-csrankings/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39586615

Points: 1

# Comments: 0