Author: bazyar
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My Technological Milieu
In college, one of my assignments was to create an SQL statement parser. Then in the late 90s, I started building E-commerce systems using MSQL (not Microsoft SQL, this was MSQL, an early open-source SQL database). Then by 2000 I was using mySQL. Now I’m developing with CockroachDB, a web-scale SQL database that can scale…
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The Promise – and Peril – of AI
The promise is clear – AI can be a powerful tool to automate things that previously could not be automated. The peril is not so clear. Underneath the hype, the fact is that AI often gets it wrong. Sometimes, horribly so. Cars crashing. Stock trades malfunctioning. History being rewritten. The key will be, how can…
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Our first year in Florida
We miss our Colorado friends! And I am sorely overdue to give all y’all an update. August 2023 – heading out We began our adventure by packing up our house into two big moving/storage containers. Once the shipper picked them up for their journey to Florida, we began ours. We loaded up the cars (and…
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Hello World!
This is the start of the long-overdue (by about 25 years) update to my personal web site.