It's protobuf/grpc based but uses json for serialization to make use of sqlite's json filtering functionality. However, it cannot be said to be zero-copy. It serializes binary protos into json and stores the binary protos directly for fast access, which allows you to skip deserialization when pulling out query results
Skills are not just markdown files. They are markdown files combined with code and data, which only work universally when you have a general purpose cloud-based code execution environment.
Out of the box Claude skills can call python scripts that load modules from Pypi or even GitHub, potentially ones that include data like sqlite files or parquet tables.
Not just in Claude Code. Anywhere, including the mobile app.
I have found that scripts, and the environment that runs them, are the skills' superpower.
Computability (scripts) means being able build documents, access remote data, retrieve data from packaged databases and a bunch of other fundamentally useful things, not just "code things". Computability makes up for many of the LLM's weaknesses and gives it autonomy to perform tasks independently.
On top of that, we can provide the documentation and examples in the skill that help the LLM execute computability effectively.
And if the LLM gets hung up on something while executing the skill, we can ask it why and then have it write better documentation or examples for a new skill version. So skills can self-improve.
It's still so early. We need better packaging, distribution, version control, sharing, composability.
But there's definitely something simple, elegant, and effective here.
Here is a reference to the "Reinventing Government" effort that was implemented during the Clinton administration and considered highly successful (and legal):
Yes, I am questioning whether the parent poster would have supported those cuts or uttered the same cry, as some individuals and communities were absolutely worse off after those cuts.
But it also expands the idea that the customer/buyer has financial power over the server by encouraging a tipping culture.
Donald Trump and his sons have repeatedly said that don't pay on contracts when they view the work is poorly done or insufficient, in response to claims of non-payment.
Encouraging tipping makes such "payment discretion" easier.
This format requires temporal validity with `valid_from`, but doesn't include `valid_to`. I don't understand how `valid_from` and the also required `recorded_at` interact.
I don't have any additional insight to the format, but I think the idea is that there is an implied ->infinity on every date range. Every bank can only have one bank_name so multiple bank_names for the same bank entity can be sorted on the 'valid' and 'recorded' axes to find the upper bounds of each.
In the bitemporal model, both system and valid times are half-open intervals, and both the preceding and following interval can either have a different value or no value. Using only start times means that while records can be updated in either time stream, they cannot be logically deleted (in transaction time) or invalidated (in valid time) once they exist. There are databases where this assumption is valid, but in general it is problematic.
Quite a while back I drove a friend of mine from SF to a railcar museum because he wanted to get a tour of railcars from a movie. The secretary of the club that ran the museum told us that they wouldn't have been able to transport the car from the location where it was originally located to the museum today.
There are a lot of RR cars around the country that are not movable for various reasons. Many of them because while the car could be moved, the tracks don't exist. Others because the running gear is worn out.
There is still hope for those cars. If you want to pay for it a ridding company can transport anything from anywhere to anywhere - they will get the correct permits and then load it on a trailer - this is easiest and most common, but not cheap. In some cases you can get an override from the RR to tow it - they can put new wheels under it quick enough, and then put it at the end of the train on a slow month (which is to say they will avoid their busy routes were something breaking would cause problems), again not cheap, but possible and sometimes the RR will subsides the cost if the car has historic value. If there are tracks you can restore it where it is and then the RRs will take it again.
You might also like "When Old Technologies Were New", which describes about how electricity and communication in the home changed society.
For instance, it tells the possibly apocryphal story of how the telephone allowed male suitors to call reach young women directly and thereby bypass both protective parents and long-time traditional romantic competitors. Getting a phone call was so exceptional that people had not yet built up any social defenses for it.
Doesn't make a lot of sense, since the same families that would have had a servant or parent answer the door would answer the telephone the same way. It's not like young misses were carrying phones in their skirt pockets. A more widely-accepted explanation for dating is economic: young women forced into apartment living and jobs in the city as their families lost the farm and couldn't keep their adult children anymore.
- Bailey, Beth L. (1988). From Front Porch to Back Seat. Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Henry, O. (1906). "The Unfinished Story". The Four Million. McClure, Phillips & Co.
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