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Sunday, 11 July 2004 |
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When my wife completed medical school in Chicago, she had her heart set on going to the most heavily surgical residency available. Los Angeles County Hospital. Everyone told me how much I would hate LA -- the people are shallow and superficial, the smog is horrible, the traffic is unbearable, there are no seasons (oh the horror.) I did not want to move to LA. |
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Fastest Database in the World |
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Saturday, 03 November 2007 |
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A few days ago, my company -- ParAccel -- released its audited TPC-H benchmark results. So now it's public: we've officially written the fastest SQL database in the world, by a wide margin! And it's a lot cheaper too. |
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Wednesday, 28 February 2007 |
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Yesterday I started a new job at Paraccel, a company that is making a fast clustered database system. I'll be working as a Senior Engineer on the Query Execution Team, where we'll be figuring out how to take a query plan and execute it, as fast as possible, distributed across a commodity compute cluster. I'm excited to be getting back to an intense startup environment! |
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Angela's first college varsity game |
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Saturday, 17 February 2007 |
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Angela just found this story from the Harvard Crimson about her first game as a varsity water polo player, in which she scored two goals. If only there were pictures too! |
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Saturday, 06 January 2007 |
 Our clothes dryer stopped working yesterday -- still gets hot, but the clothes don't get dry. I concluded that the ducts were clogged, opened them up and cleared out a bunch of damp lint. Then when I went to research options for installing lint filters, I came across this site about lint sculpture. |
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Make things, or learn things? |
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Tuesday, 06 July 2004 |
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When I was an idealistic 18-year old heading off to Harvard, my plan was to become a renaissance man. I figured I was great at all of my school subjects, played violin, and wrote poetry. So to put my plan into action, I decided to major in the hardest subject -- physics -- and to make sure to take lots of fascinating humanities classes. By the time I graduated, knew a bit about physics, a lot about English poetry, and I was a pretty decent painter and printmaker. Being totally confused as to how to turn this into a career, I did the natural thing, and decided to get a Ph.D. in physics. |
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Friday, 02 July 2004 |
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I play viola on a semi-professional level. |
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