Great post and beautiful website. I got a bit confused by the flush operation that happens when the memtable is full. A quick note that a new on-disk segment is created would help. In the recap at the end, segmentation is also not mentioned.
Regardless of accusations of anthropomorphizing, continual thinking seems to be a precursor to any sense of agency, simply because agency requires something to be running.
Eventually LLM output degrades when most of the context is its own output. So should there also be an input stream of experience? The proverbial "staring out the window", fed into the model to keep it grounded and give hooks to go off?
Though it kind of reminds me of The Shining (too much time just thinking drives one to insanity). It seems like we need to evolve intelligence, perception, and agency very closely in tandem, or an imbalance in any will send it off the rails.
He might be referring to his sleeping heart rate. Mine's around 40bpm too, and although I'm in shape, I am definitely not an athlete. There is a correlation with height (taller -> slower bpm). If you are young and fit, I don't think you have much to worry about a slow resting heart rate, in the absence of other symptoms.
As someone who used to be in the academia, I think is isn't bad in itself, I just worry that by comparison it raises the burden of effort that one has to make in order to get their work noticed.
I think the simple explanation is just that "democratize" in this context just means you can ask your questions in natural language instead of having to learn SQL, access to large datasets to the broader demos.
