Joe Hellerstein

This was fun -- @chakrabartis is great at this! Lots of discussion on the future of data management and AI writ large. Shout-outs to @RunLLM @AcrylData / @datahubproject and ways that @Trifacta /@alteryx presaged AI-assisted human-centric experiences. #GuideDecide loops!

Open-rank search (unusual for EECS) - please RT and apply!

.@profjoeyg and I are back after the holidays with predictions for 2025 — how foundation models will evolve, where applications will go, and more!

The end of the year snuck up on @profjoeyg and me, so we reviewed our predictions for 2024 and shared some lessons learned. Predictions for next after the holidays! 👀

Everyone's been hand-wringing about the end of scaling laws, but does it matter? Better models aren't necessary for adoption, and better models aren't going to create adoption. @profjoeyg and I on what the real priorities are: open.substack.com/pub/frontierai…

Thrilled to share that our paper “Flo: A Semantic Foundation for Progressive Stream Processing” (with @mbpmilano, @alvinkcheung, and @joe_hellerstein) will appear at POPL 2025! Check out the preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2411.08274, and read on for more!

.@profjoeyg and I have a pre-holiday hot take. 🔥 Your AI strategy is a waste of time. You'll be much better served by using more AI tools (and accepting that it won't work out sometimes). By the time you invent a strategy, it'll be outdated anyway! open.substack.com/pub/frontierai…

Our Python documentation just got a huge boost thanks to @RunLLM! Our new "Ask AI" widget in the bottom-right of every docs page launches a truly magically accurate agentic RAG system that writes accurate, up-to-date code in answer to your questions. Try it out today!…

If you're not implementing this for your library's docs, I don't know what you're doing. runllm.com

Startup founders are told to do things that don't scale and eventually automate them. With AI, you can keep doing things that don't scale while you scale: open.substack.com/pub/frontierai…

SF Systems Group is merging with SF Systems Club 🥳 Chroma is hosting the November meetup with talks from @alexkrentsel and @qianl_cs Hope to see you there lu.ma/lhuuiur5

Coming from Berkeley, we're big fans of open-source at @RunLLM, so we're giving free unlimited technical support to any open-source projects or Seed-stage COSS companies. If you're interested, DM me or email vikram AT runllm DOT com. We already support vLLM (> 10k questions…

Committee meeting slows down while faculty debate analogies of the bureaucracy to their differing areas of research expertise.

As a Latino, a vote for Trump would be a vote against my self respect.

Thanks for having me! It was fun to reminisce about the CIDR’11 paper and talk about how we’re revisiting those ideas in an LLM context (CIDR’24 and beyond!)

Looking fw to speak about AI in production at #MetadataAISummit2024 hosted by @AcrylData and #DataHub! Join 2,500+ of us at the virtual summit, October 29-30 to hear the latest innovations in AI and metadata management. bit.ly/4dLdSHb #AI #Metadata @RunLLM

HUGE congrats to @domoritz!! It's been such a pleasure and honor to work with you since the early days of @vega_vis. Here's to many more years of conversation and collaboration 🍻