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Leveraging the lightcone around the source of truth with Postgres
postgres So we discussed software abstraction, tying the concept to probabilistic bayesian models. We argued that through simplification and reduction of description length, reduction of program sizes, abstraction can allow programs to better generalize and interpolate into the unknown.
It's possible that both LLMs and human brains were able to evolve to track and operate over uncertainty relatively easily because this task is aligned with conserving energy, a tendency that was important anyways, to save electricity or calories. Breaking things out like number crunching makes sense since it might be too resource intensive to perform in db which can lead to early need for sharding (increasing physical and logical distances in other ways). To summarize, the postgres-centrism hypothesis says that integrated, entropy-minimizing systems that reduce dependency distances, and anchor logic near the source of truth, leveraging the efficiencies of proximity, often better aligns with fundamentals of computing, physics, information theory, thermodynamics and intelligence.
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