Lab notes #003 Database as Value in Depth

Wil

Sep 6, 2022 • 1 min read

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Lab notes #006 Categories redux

A good part of the week was spent reading and watching talks on "The simple essence of automatic differentiation". I got the gist the first go around but much of the details were opaque to me. Reading it this second time around and actually working through the examples helped with

Wil Sep 27, 2022 • 1 min read

Lab notes #005 Moving on from the low level

Reading more papers, mostly focused on Relaxed Radix Balanced Trees, since other trees, such as B-trees, Finger Trees, and HAMT trees seem to predate the research on this one. The premise is generally pretty simple, but the devil is in the details. The papers on it are fairly clear. I

Wil Sep 18, 2022 • 2 min read

Lab notes #004 Index construction with trees

Watched lectures and read papers on persistent trees, and come away feeling like it's a rabbit hole. I initially found it difficult to implement a B+-tree in Rust, due to ownership rules, so I stopped. As much of an advantage it would be to have these things implemented, it's a commodity.

Wil Sep 12, 2022 • 2 min read

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