Jawaid Bazyar

Category: tech

  • My Technological Milieu

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    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…

  • The Promise – and Peril – of AI

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    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…