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- A better SQL in 11 lines of code (prela-lang.org)
- What if SELECT, FROM, WHERE were functions? (remy.wang)
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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…
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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…
- Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson (1910) (gutenberg.org)
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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…
- Value Polymorphism in Rust (remy.wang)
- Tarski's influence on computer science [pdf] (math.stanford.edu)
- Show HN: Prela – A Compositional and Controllable Query Language (prela-lang.org)
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…
- Passing DBs through continuations (remy.wang)
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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…
- Simple and correct snapshot isolation (remy.wang)
- Mailmate (freron.com)
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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…
- A Critique of Snapshot Isolation (arxiv.org)
- Proof Theory and Logic Programming (lix.polytechnique.fr)
- The LCA problem revisited [pdf] (www3.cs.stonybrook.edu)
- Show HN: sAT Protocol – static social networking (github.com)
- GNU Texmacs (texmacs.org)
- B+tree Visualizer (bptvisualizer.netlify.app)
- The Ipe extensible drawing editor (ipe-web.otfried.org)
- CIDR 2026 Proceedings (vldb.org)