Bob Bryla

I remember seeing Weird Al in his early years -- touring with Doctor Demento, his mentor, at an Iowa City dive bar in the early 80s.

Mattress Store Experiments With Non-Blowout Sale RICHMOND, VA—In a radical departure from its established tradition of total liquidation extravaganzas, Northside Mattress Warehouse on 112 Chamberlayne Rd. will use this coming weekend to test a sales...

Yeah, blowout sales always sounds like something painful after eating at Taco Bell the day before. I'm good with stores that have "fairly low prices". #TheOnion
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A Vector Function by Any Other Name… In my ongoing review of Oracle Database 23ai’s vector functions, there was some confusion about which distance functions are equivalent, what the aliases are for a few of the specific vector …

Aliases, relatives, and distances: oh my!
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Visualizing Multi-Dimensional Vectors from Oracle Database 23ai One of the key features of Oracle Database 23ai is creating multi-dimensional vectors and storing them alongside relational data in your tables. As I was investigating how vector datatypes were sto…

Finally dipping my big toe into the intricacies of vector processing in Oracle Database 23ai with ChatGPT's help.
#OracleDatabase #23ai
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Currently hanging out in 6-dimensional space. I guess I'm about 114.99 dimension-units from home. #OracleDatabase #23ai

I did this with 23.7 in the pre-built VirtualBox appliance:

alter system set inmemory_force=base_level scope=spfile;
alter system set inmemory_size=256m scope=spfile;

Of course there is only so much memory to work with, but I see this at the PDB level:

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Use code. No token tumbling. I know you need tokens to think.
(one of my LLM prompts today)

I see that the OP provided the good and bad plans -- is there any other further answer to their question about plan stability?

Things were going great today until cell storage offloading broke on #Oracle #Exadata again. 😡 I HATE when that happens.

A1 is getting so powerful these days.

I am attributing much of my success using #OracleDatabase this week to "Vibe Querying".

I'll never tire of taking an #Oracle database query that runs for hours and never finishes, making a minor tweak to the query structure, then seeing it run in a few seconds on #Exadata.

#twit @twit.tv #SecurityNow How I watch Twit shows! On the way to work or back home. Of course I don't take my eyes off the road, execept when Steve shows the picture of the week. 📷

The Man We Know Only As The Homunculus Has Defected To Us Ah, pardon me, gentlemen, for interrupting your weekly briefing. Do you mind if I avail myself of the coffee? Thank you indeed. I’ve had a long night of it. As will all of you, tonight and for the for...

Is THe Abomination somehow the love child of Dept. Head Rawlings and The Homunculus?

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As Of This Briefing, We Have Commenced Operation Global Penumbra Good afternoon, gentlemen, Mei-Ling, Your Grace, Madame Secretary. Welcome to the Department for Special Acquisitions and Liquidations. May I entreat you to take your seats? I thank you all for arrivi...

I'm not giving up hope that Rawlings will show up in @theonion.com again.
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I literally LOL at least once for every @theonion.com email newsletter I get, such as this instant classic: 🦴
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And buy this book !
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Is Tushar on the tech support team or in sales?
💰💰💰😢
Apparently Tushar also forgot to ask about instances in Google Cloud too. 😮

(realizing this after 50 years while heating something up in the microwave):
OF COURSE it's not "bad luck" that an accidentally dropped buttered slice of toast falls butter side down most of the time. DUH center of gravity and density.

At first I thought it was a waterlogged bagel.

Apparently a lot of people like "smooth jazz". Is there another group of jazz enthusiasts who like "rough jazz"? 🤔

There are so many of them they had to join tables. Of course, in this case the tables can be joined with a database link but finishing a conversation took a lot longer than expected because of the high latency between each of the cloud providers even when they're in the same alcohol domain (AD).

Yes, some day Rawlings will come out of hiding. Or break out of his writer's block! @theonion.com @onion20.substack.com

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RAWLINGS! RAWLINGS! RAWLINGS! We want RAWLINGS!
@theonion.com

It's hard to quantify quality, but I was impressed with the detail I was getting with the 14b model. Looks like a bit over 1/s when I asked about TPS calculations. :)

Deepseek-r1 14b actually runs on my Raspberry Pi 5 with 16 GB. A bit slow, but I asked it two questions about Lollapalooza. Its "thought process" is rather odd, it's painfully slow on a Raspberry Pi, but it got the answer to both questions right. Eventually!

We Have New Intelligence Regarding The Identity Of The Counter-Spy Within The Department Welcome, gentlemen. Please, make yourselves comfortable. I’m afraid Mei-Ling is picking out china patterns or planning a bridal shower or some such matrimonial matter this evening. Please feel free to...

Well, this @theonion.com story is hilarious,

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but I suspect he's secretly the son of Dept. Head Rawlings,

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who apparently is still in hiding.

@theonion.com Not sure how I've survived without my updates from GT for over 2 decades. -- Dept. Head Rawlings

As Of This Briefing, We Have Commenced Operation Global Penumbra Good afternoon, gentlemen, Mei-Ling, Your Grace, Madame Secretary. Welcome to the Department for Special Acquisitions and Liquidations. May I entreat you to take your seats? I thank you all for arrivi...

Really, only Rawlings can save us now. Please come out of hiding!
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Free CoPilot with Office 365! Oh, but there's a catch. I have to use OneDrive. Fucking Microsoft.

Which Free Version of Oracle Database 23ai is Best? It’s not an easy answer — which version is best for you? The Always Free Autonomous Database in the Oracle Cloud (currently on version 23.6.0.24.11) or the free developer edition for Wi…

Comparing free versions of #OracleDatabase #23ai in a local VM and #OracleCloud with some vector processing queries.

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Isn't EVERY shift at the cemetery a graveyard shift? 🤔