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Jun 17

January 2025

Architecture theory and the hourglass model

Everyone is talking about AI agent architectures, frameworks, and protocols at the moment.

Jan 8

October 2024

Differential knowledge interconnection

This post is a reply to Eugene Kirpichov's post on Linkedin. Eugene writes that contributing to general AI and information processing capabilities…

Oct 12, 2024

September 2024

Table transfer protocols: improved Arrow Flight and alternative to Iceberg

This article is the ultimate one in the five-piece series:

Sep 7, 2024

Table Write protocol for interop between diverse OLAP databases and processing engines

In the previous article, I argued that there is an opportunity for creating a new family of protocols: table transfer protocols, namely Table Read and…

Sep 4, 2024

August 2024

Table transfer protocols for universal access to OLAP databases

Update: for the overview of table transfer protocols, see the following article.

Aug 26, 2024

July 2024

The future of OLAP table storage is not Iceberg

Jul 30, 2024

simplicity/acc: Why We Must End Human Programming Jobs

Software engineers often gravitate towards projects with minimal non-software components and minimal direct interaction with the real world.

Jul 15, 2024

May 2024

The two-tiered society

On AI and Jobs: How to Make AI Work With Us, Not Against Us With Daron Acemoglu

May 13, 2024

April 2024

The vision for AI-assisted decision-making in 3-5 years

In the previous post, I suggested a possible AI-first technological stack for (business) decision intelligence, almost not saying anything about the…

Apr 11, 2024

March 2024

The Open-Source Stack for Decision Intelligence

Probabilistic models are integral to state-of-the-art decision theories, such as Bayesian a.k.a.

Mar 11, 2024

February 2024

AI alignment as a translation problem

Yet another way to think about the alignment problem

Feb 5, 2024

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