2026 1

RIP, Data Engineers

As AI marches along, another role at risk is the data engineer / database administrator. (Data scientists are already feeling the heat.) A common task for data engineers is to analyze SQL queries - to optimize and standardize. Pavan used Antigravity to analyze 1,500 SQL queries and found: 30% of queries are purely headcount / volume related. Much more than revenue (25%) or engagement (15%). That’s sign of a tactical culture. 70% of the queries are about What happened yesterday? rather than What will happen tomorrow? - again, tactical culture. Here’s the analysis. ...

2025 1

Tools

Results of my software tool evaluations. 🟢 is my current choice and 🟡 is worth evaluating. Online tools Squoosh compresses images Edit PDF edits PDFs Photopea edits images | Pixlr WordCount counts words in text, as well as reading time I Love PDF compresses PDFs WebsocketKing tests websockets Paste HTML/Rich text as Markdown Markdown to HTML: Dillinger.io | (https://markdowntohtml.com/) Vert for audio/video/document conversations Archive: ...

2005 1

Searching the invisible web

Searching the invisible web. Comments S Anand 11 Apr 2005 3:42 am: More here

2001 1

What does your name mean

What does your name mean? More info about asian names.

2000 1

PR on the Internet

While hunting for some stuff on public relations on the Internet, I found 10 ways public relations specialists can use the Internet. Actually, the links are useful to anyone doing any news research. What’s Next Online, 12th July has a good writeup on how to research online. I did find some good Internet PR related links too on About.com, Connecting Online and Impulse Research.