Pete Aven
@wpaven.bsky.social
Fights for the users! Database aficionado with a penchant for software development.
X free since Apr 18, 2025
X free since Apr 18, 2025
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Hands down the best Christmas movie of all time.
if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
December 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Hands down the best Christmas movie of all time.
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Congratulations to the #1 ranked @db.cs.cmu.edu PhD student Wan Shen Lim (@wslim.bsky.social) for successfully passing his doctoral defense. Wan has been working on hard AF database research with me for the last *nine* years at CMU (undergrad+grad). He also hates chickens.
December 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Congratulations to the #1 ranked @db.cs.cmu.edu PhD student Wan Shen Lim (@wslim.bsky.social) for successfully passing his doctoral defense. Wan has been working on hard AF database research with me for the last *nine* years at CMU (undergrad+grad). He also hates chickens.
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Thanks Andy! We published the recording here www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnQK...
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DBOS: 2025 Year in Review with Mike Stonebraker and Andy Pavlo
YouTube video by DBOS-Inc
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Thanks Andy! We published the recording here www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnQK...
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Trump's whole M.O. is to blame the victim and celebrate the criminal. No one should be shocked by this anymore. The pattern's always been right there in front of everyone.
December 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Trump's whole M.O. is to blame the victim and celebrate the criminal. No one should be shocked by this anymore. The pattern's always been right there in front of everyone.
The roads in Pittsburgh are horrible today due to yesterday's snow storm, and there's no real reason for them to still be at this point other than our corrupt, outgoing mayor is petty and making everyone who didn't vote for him pay. Stay safe out there!
December 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The roads in Pittsburgh are horrible today due to yesterday's snow storm, and there's no real reason for them to still be at this point other than our corrupt, outgoing mayor is petty and making everyone who didn't vote for him pay. Stay safe out there!
Our elected officials didn't take the position to solve the world's problems. They took the position to see what they could benefit from them.
December 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Our elected officials didn't take the position to solve the world's problems. They took the position to see what they could benefit from them.
It's wild to me that out of all the sci-fi movies I enjoyed as a kid, 1984's Runaway starring Tom Selleck and Gene Simmons would be the one to best predict the state of robots today.
December 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
It's wild to me that out of all the sci-fi movies I enjoyed as a kid, 1984's Runaway starring Tom Selleck and Gene Simmons would be the one to best predict the state of robots today.
Amazing. You can start an AI company and train your models by exploiting all the IP of another company regardless of any copyright and then turn around and sell your AI back to that same company at a premium price, essentially licensing their own content back to them.
December 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Amazing. You can start an AI company and train your models by exploiting all the IP of another company regardless of any copyright and then turn around and sell your AI back to that same company at a premium price, essentially licensing their own content back to them.
Maybe this should've been the year of: Everything is so bad rignt now, but the promise is HUGE! It's amazing how much can be sold on this premise.
December 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Maybe this should've been the year of: Everything is so bad rignt now, but the promise is HUGE! It's amazing how much can be sold on this premise.
It's kind of offensive to call them the Architects of AI. I've been in a room with John McCarthy, Oliver Selfridge, and some of the other true architects of AI. These folks on the cover are more the pushers of AI, or the salesman of AI. Perhaps the PT Barnums of AI. But certainly not architects.
December 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It's kind of offensive to call them the Architects of AI. I've been in a room with John McCarthy, Oliver Selfridge, and some of the other true architects of AI. These folks on the cover are more the pushers of AI, or the salesman of AI. Perhaps the PT Barnums of AI. But certainly not architects.
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
Last year donnie was Time's person of the year, as he represented the billionaires who ran the country to get him elected in 2024. This year's Architects of AI represent the corporations now running the country without any regulation due to that billionaire investment. Success! Time nailed it.
December 12, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Last year donnie was Time's person of the year, as he represented the billionaires who ran the country to get him elected in 2024. This year's Architects of AI represent the corporations now running the country without any regulation due to that billionaire investment. Success! Time nailed it.
47 Kennedypox outbreaks across 43 states in 2025. This one’s just the latest getting the media’s 24 hour news cycle focus. Be careful out there!
The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials say.
South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine
Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.
nbcnews.to
December 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
47 Kennedypox outbreaks across 43 states in 2025. This one’s just the latest getting the media’s 24 hour news cycle focus. Be careful out there!
It's so weird that the internet cites March 2000 as the dot com bubble bursting. That must be a looking backwards, hindsight report. I was there, and it's not what I experienced. College campuses were overrun with recruiters in fall of 2000...
December 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
It's so weird that the internet cites March 2000 as the dot com bubble bursting. That must be a looking backwards, hindsight report. I was there, and it's not what I experienced. College campuses were overrun with recruiters in fall of 2000...
My hunch is the bubble will pop in January and stocks will crash rapidly downward similar to what we experienced in 2001. It might not be then, it could happen later, but when it does happen, I'm 1000% sure we'll be told it's Biden's fault.
December 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
My hunch is the bubble will pop in January and stocks will crash rapidly downward similar to what we experienced in 2001. It might not be then, it could happen later, but when it does happen, I'm 1000% sure we'll be told it's Biden's fault.
The AI transformation playbook by Andrew Ng is practical and helpful. Simple, but not easy. Some solid pointers here. landing.ai/wp-content/u...
landing.ai
December 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The AI transformation playbook by Andrew Ng is practical and helpful. Simple, but not easy. Some solid pointers here. landing.ai/wp-content/u...
$15.62 for 2 egg McMuffins at a Yavapai county McDonald's the other day because, Affordability!
November 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
$15.62 for 2 egg McMuffins at a Yavapai county McDonald's the other day because, Affordability!
$6.49 for a cup of drip coffee at PHX airport.
November 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
$6.49 for a cup of drip coffee at PHX airport.
Feeling very special this morning. I just received a personal invitation to Knowledge Graph Conference 2026. 😊
November 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Feeling very special this morning. I just received a personal invitation to Knowledge Graph Conference 2026. 😊
Tabloid journalism won. Booooooooooo. 👎
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Tabloid journalism won. Booooooooooo. 👎
I don't think people generally think of it this way, but when it comes to social media and AI, the government lets corporations test its products on us and our children. There is no online EPA and the pollution flows freely. Be careful out here folks.
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I don't think people generally think of it this way, but when it comes to social media and AI, the government lets corporations test its products on us and our children. There is no online EPA and the pollution flows freely. Be careful out here folks.
Interesting article.LLMs were built for unstructured data, but turns out they can work well with structured too, especially if the structure is a graph. towardsdatascience.com/why-llms-are...
Why LLMs Aren’t a One-Size-Fits-All Solution for Enterprises | Towards Data Science
LLMs are a seamless way to find value in your unstructured data, but the truth is, there is so much more value hidden within your structured data. This post explores what LLMs are (and aren’t) optimiz...
towardsdatascience.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Interesting article.LLMs were built for unstructured data, but turns out they can work well with structured too, especially if the structure is a graph. towardsdatascience.com/why-llms-are...
I'm seeing a whole lot of this out in the field these days. The tools may vary, but at a high level, LLMs are being used to take unstructured data & give it structure in a knowledge graph, thus making information accessible and reusable in new, exciting & very useful ways medium.com/neo4j/from-l...
From Legal Documents to Knowledge Graphs
Use LlamaCloud to extract information and construct legal graphs in Neo4j
medium.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I'm seeing a whole lot of this out in the field these days. The tools may vary, but at a high level, LLMs are being used to take unstructured data & give it structure in a knowledge graph, thus making information accessible and reusable in new, exciting & very useful ways medium.com/neo4j/from-l...
This is very cool. Makes sense to me. www.leoniemonigatti.com/blog/memory-...
Making Sense of Memory in AI Agents – Leonie Monigatti
Learn how to make stateless LLM agents remember conversations, manage context, and implement memory banks.
www.leoniemonigatti.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This is very cool. Makes sense to me. www.leoniemonigatti.com/blog/memory-...
Daily reminder: An "underage woman" is a female person who is legally a minor or a child.
(Legally speaking a minor IS a child.)
You're welcome!
(Legally speaking a minor IS a child.)
You're welcome!
November 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Daily reminder: An "underage woman" is a female person who is legally a minor or a child.
(Legally speaking a minor IS a child.)
You're welcome!
(Legally speaking a minor IS a child.)
You're welcome!