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  1. This is the sibling post of “Who wants to fund DB research?“ [1], please see that post for context. In short, if you are working on non-AI related DB topics and are looking for funding, leave a comment below with a…

  2. You may have heard there’s a funding crisis for science in general, and for computer science in particular. Within CS, despite billions of dollars being spent for AI research, there is less and less funding for…

  3. Current models are still notoriously bad at writing prose. It's not just the easily recognizable tics like "load-bearing" and "genuinely". The text is just sloppy, pompous, and full of air. I've tried different…

  4. I'm excited to share "take 2" of the Prela query language. After sharing the previous version here, I've received some valuable feedback, the main one being the weird unicode-based syntax throwing people off. Prela now…

  5. Prela is an embedded query language based on Tarski's Algebra of Relations. Its queries are concise, clear, and fast. It is implemented by shallow embedding in a host programming language: Prela operators are regular…

  6. Mailmate (freron.com)
  7. A classic DB paper [1] published in 1984 mentions a DB system called "q" written by Brian Kernighan at Bell labs, but only cites private communication by Al Aho. Does anyone have more information on the system? I…

  8. Proof Theory and Logic Programming (lix.polytechnique.fr)
  9. The LCA problem revisited [pdf] (www3.cs.stonybrook.edu)
  10. GNU Texmacs (texmacs.org)
  11. B+tree Visualizer (bptvisualizer.netlify.app)
  12. The Ipe extensible drawing editor (ipe-web.otfried.org)