Husband & dad (x2), rugged individualist, co-founder/CEO @SpiralDB, project chair @vortexdotdev. @PalantirTech 2013-22.
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Will Manning retweeted
we're holding an intervention on Tuesday at 10AM PT
Data quality is the ultimate compute multiplier.
Curated data matched our largest baseline with 6x less compute. A 12B-A1.4B model beat 30B-A3B on a fifth of the pretraining compute.
Live Tuesday 10am PT with @hurrycane @lukemerrick_ @josh_wills: events.datologyai.com/curati…
Will Manning retweeted
.@CarnegieMellon Appoints Database Professor @pateljm as Dean and Vice President of CMU Miami db.cs.cmu.edu/2026/10/carneg…
Will Manning retweeted
hey.
we know you're busy remediating php2shell.
when you're done, we have some content for you <3
spiraldb.com/blog/duckdb-and…
Will Manning retweeted
Claude, plz rewrite wordpress in rust. Yes all the plugins too. No I don't just mean the source code, I mean like, go replace everybody's wordpress install.
You don't have access, well funny thing...
Will Manning retweeted
It’s going to be a long winter for every security team out there. Be nice to them.
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Ah yes “water companies”, businesses notorious for their pricing power and high margins
Will Manning retweeted
do not let yourself be reduced to the status of audience at a magic show, uncomprehendingly clapping as machine intelligence creates parcels of astounding knowledge. all of this is for us, to be understood by us, to sate our own curiosities. it's all really happening
fast, distributed determinism is hard. really cool work from our friends at @datologyai!
(also... integrates with @vortexdotdev 👀)
At @datologyai we run thousands of data experiments. Two things keep biting us:
- Same run on 16 vs 8 GPUs → different evals
- Every pipeline change → re-materialize the dataset
Introducing Zephon, the data loader we built to process data on the fly, deterministically. 🧵
Will Manning retweeted
The math results yesterday are truly incredible.
This one for instance. I spent a ton of time implementing different integer multiplication algos back in school. The time complexity of this new algorithm is so deeply psychotic and unsettling lol.
More like Hugging Fast 🚀🚀
@vortexdotdev
Datasets 5.1 is out, largely carried by @b_azarkhalili !
New formats
- Vortex, cc @Robert3005
- Harbor for RL environments, cc @adithya_s_k
- Not one but five (!!) Bio molecules and proteins formats 🧬, cc @cgeorgiaw
Will Manning retweeted
Datasets is out with vortex support!
Datasets 5.1 is out, largely carried by @b_azarkhalili !
New formats
- Vortex, cc @Robert3005
- Harbor for RL environments, cc @adithya_s_k
- Not one but five (!!) Bio molecules and proteins formats 🧬, cc @cgeorgiaw
Will Manning retweeted
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
Will Manning retweeted
My old party died on October 7, 2023
Hijacked by Islamists, Communists.
The Democratic Party is officially Iranian allied Red-Green Alliance
This is undeniable. The only who deny it are stalwart Dems denying the DSA ascendancy as the GOP denied MAGA’s takeover of it.
It is not a good sign when the IRGC shifts from "Death to America" to "Vote Democratic." The IRGC is reportedly encouraging Americans to vote against the GOP in the midterms. nypost.com/2026/09/29/world-… ...
Will Manning retweeted
Frontier labs: “AI agents are becoming conscious. They can cause human extinction. Pace the frontier.”
Jensen Huang: “They’re just software. If your sandbox isn’t safe, I’ll build one for you.”
Today, with over 100 industry partners, we introduced the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, bringing together OpenShell and Sentry.
Artificial intelligence is extraordinary technology that will advance discovery, productivity, security, health, and prosperity for generations to come.
But its full promise can only be realized when people have confidence that AI is being built to be safe and deployed with wisdom and responsibility.
This is bigger than a single product. It's the beginning of an open ecosystem to build the trust layer for safe agent systems.
Together, we are building the foundation of the AI economy.
Trust and innovation are not in conflict. Safety is how trust is earned. We must build not only the most capable AI, but the most trusted AI, so that this extraordinary technology can realize its enormous promise for the world. nvda.ws/4hcoq7m
"Unstructured" is usually a euphemism for "my database isn't good at this"
The team cooked with this one.
Spiral now has first-class support for geospatial data types, with optimized query operators for things like spatial joins.
If you work with satellite images, vector data, or anything multidimensional, you're gonna wanna check this out.
spiraldb.com/deep-dives/geom…
