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AI news this week : Where are we on the Gartner Hype Cycle ( April 10 , 2023 )
Where are we on the Gartner Hype Cycle https://twitter.com/VesselOfSpirit/status/1647858120465723392?s=20 "people are saying that AI...
kyle Hailey
Apr 13, 20231 min read


The AI Dream: Embracing the Infinite Dance Between Virtual Worlds and Shared Humanity
In the spirit of Alan Watts, let us consider the possibility that advances in AI and VR technologies may give rise to a curious...
kyle Hailey
Apr 12, 20232 min read


Exponential Thinking
Life on Earth began approximately 3.7 billion years ago The emergence of major technology, dating back to the say the pyramids (? or...
kyle Hailey
Apr 9, 20232 min read


AI : Societal impact and perception
AI presents both opportunities and risks, making wealthy nations cautious. Yet, impoverished countries facing adversity are more bullish,...
kyle Hailey
Apr 9, 20231 min read


AI Fashion Week NYC 2023
https://fashionweek.ai/ https://www.instagram.com/fashionweek.ai/ What to Expect at the First AI Fashion Week Fashion collection...
kyle Hailey
Apr 9, 20231 min read


Postgres Partition Conversion: minimal downtime
The red spikes in the graph signify anomalies, with the dips in the top left indicating a significant decline in transaction rates, and...
kyle Hailey
Apr 8, 202314 min read


Auto_explain on Google Cloud SQL (GCP)
Getting Started with Google Cloud SQL and Auto Explain for Performance Monitoring Introduction: After three decades of experience with...
kyle Hailey
Apr 8, 20234 min read


Midjourney's Describe command
Are you tired of manually describing images or struggling to come up with the right words to describe an image? Midjourney has come up...
kyle Hailey
Apr 5, 20231 min read


Midjourney's New "Permutations": Create Limitless Combinations with Image Prompts and {Braces}
Midjourney's's new functionality allows users to create unique image combinations by giving it an image prompt and using braces {} to...
kyle Hailey
Apr 5, 20235 min read


Reining in the AI Revolution: Why We Must Act Now to Safeguard Our Future
As much as I think AI is incredible and I want unfettered access to it, it seems obvious that it needs to be regulated quickly. As a...
kyle Hailey
Apr 5, 20233 min read


psql: Guardrails between PROD and TEST
This took way longer than I wanted But I've got access to Prod and to Dev I haven't gotten automated changes and change logging in yet...
kyle Hailey
Mar 17, 20232 min read


New works by John Williams Waterhouse “discovered”
Is there an artist you liked, but would love to have seen more works by? I always liked John William Waterhouse and wished there were...
kyle Hailey
Sep 20, 20222 min read


DataDog – the marriage of ASH, Query Stats and UI
I’m so happy to be working at Datadog ( and we are hiring so ping me if interested. Looking for Python developers who are interested in...
kyle Hailey
Jun 30, 20222 min read


MySQL wait events broken and are CPU time
Sure, wait event times in any database will include some CPU time, though ideally it should be minimal. Waits should be instrumented as...
kyle Hailey
Jun 29, 20224 min read
JDBC Request: Cannot load JDBC driver class’com.mysql.jdbc.Driver’ solution
Just quick post to document a troublesome error when running Jmeter on Mysql JDBC Request: Cannot load JDBC driver...
kyle Hailey
Jun 22, 20221 min read
Setting up Always ON (SQL Server)
There is a great little docker setup that starts Always On (SQL Servers instance replication not to be confused with their article i.e....
kyle Hailey
Apr 15, 20223 min read
introducing network latency on Docker (SQL Server Always On testing)
I am testing out Always On replication on SQL Server with a cool docker setup that includes primary and secondary https://github.com/rafa...
kyle Hailey
Apr 13, 20224 min read
MySQL : events_waits_current – who is waiting and who is on CPU
Anyone familiar with Oracle performance tuning knows about ASH , aka active session history. ASH saves a history of every session that is...
kyle Hailey
Mar 25, 202211 min read
MySQL -> what to do with NESTING_EVENT_ID
How does one use NESTING_EVENT_ID? Below I’ve selected from events_waits_history_long for a single thread, but none of the ...
kyle Hailey
Mar 24, 202212 min read
MySQL waits and CPU
Question: how do I know that one user is waiting for a lock and another user is burning CPU on MySQL? i.e. how can I create active...
kyle Hailey
Mar 23, 20226 min read
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