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Heuristics Are the Secret Sauce
In computer science, each machine and software is an experiment.
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How Databases Did AI Before It Was Cool
Databases are an example of program synthesis, while a query optimizer might use heuristic search.
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The Case for Branchless Programming
In the debate around branchless programming, the best approach is to benchmark.
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What Happened to MapReduce
David J. DeWitt and Michael Stonebraker argued that MapReduce was a step backwards for the database community.
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The Power (and Limits) of Emacs Buffers
Buffers are Emacs’s most powerful tool to be “annoyingly” useful.
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How Databases Write to Disk
A successful write by a database does not necessarily mean durability on disk.
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