Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 26/08/2025Where is the Cursor for SQL? CoQuery is a minimal vibe-coded SQL playground powered by SQLite WASM and Google Gemini language models. There is no backend, everything is in the webpage frontend. github.com/arnabdotorg/... 031
Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 04/04/2025I decided to vibe code a quick "CSE 3241 Game Show" using Claude Artifacts and Gemini to help students study for their finals. I was very pleasantly surprised by how easy the process is. Figured I'd share the process, and some design principles I used! www.linkedin.com/pulse/vibe-c... 040
Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 02/03/2025ok this is pretty cool. #TBDBITL on ice (via @espn.com, who doesnt seem to post videos here?) @bsky.app please make it easier for publishers to post! 030
Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 19/02/2025This came up during a class discussion. Apple **has** launched a dedicated social network before. In 2010, iTunes Ping was launched to build out a music-focused social network: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_... 010
Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 05/02/2025Love it. I'm just thinking, the obvious product name would be Excel Multiverse 021
Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 04/02/2025The current excitement about research agents (@emollick.bsky.social has great notes) reminded me of the portfolio of tools from Corpernic in the early 2000s, including a summarizer, a search aggregator, and a shopper. Obviously the capabilities are wildly different, but the need has been around. 010
Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 21/01/2025🔁@csail.mit.edu: Early Video of Jeff Bezos walking through the first office of Amazon.com Inc., featuring the "Programming Perl" camel book on a desk (Amazon was one of the biggest users of Perl / Mason for content generation.) 000
Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 09/01/2025OpenAI Sora notes. - Performance: getting 5-10second videos within the minute of submitting, impressive. - Quality: hard to iterate edits. They have remix and recut using existing video as seed, but it's at prompt level - Composing: They have a composer mode, but there is a lot more that can be done 120
Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 19/12/2024"LOTUS (LLMs Over Tables of Unstructured and Structured Data) provides a declarative programming model and an optimized query engine for serving reasoning-based query pipelines over structured & unstructured data" via a Pandas-like API: github.com/guestrin-lab... www.arxiv.org/abs/2407.11418 020
Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 19/12/2024Venn diagrams for GenAI by @ryanstephen.co and @chandlersimon.com : www.superrandom.studio/venngenn 140
Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 17/12/2024@joshpigford.com loving this. I'd love to know how many people are pressing the pre-generated prompt buttons, and how many are actual new questions. This also reminds me of Office Contextual Ribbons + Mac Searchable Help -- LLMs now have the power to turbocharge them 1000x. 010
Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 29/11/2024This definitely helped my UX on here: Settings > Font Size > Larger 010
Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 29/11/2024As "60fps" (ie, 16ms roundtrip latency) becomes reasonable, we have new challenges. UIs issue interactive queries in bursts -- Q2 may be issued BEFORE Q1 returns. Q3 can be blocked on Q1, but is part of "interactive" UX. Here, we need to measure not just latency but Latency Constraint Violations: 110
Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 15/11/2024My latest party trick is to make football analogy explainers out of PhD dissertations 020
Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 07/06/2023Found this gem on @sigmodrecord: The very *FIRST* issue of FDT, brought to you by ACM SICFIDET(ACM Special Interest Committee on File Description & Translation). Published in 1969, this would go on to grow into ACM @sigmod. sigmodrecord.org/publications/sigmo… 111
Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 24/05/2023From today’s White House announcement, US Department of Education: “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning - Insights and Recommendations“ www2.ed.gov/documents/ai-report/ai-… 000
Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 15/05/2023Shout out to the interactive analytics developers at ATN who just got back from a stressful weekend 000
Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 11/05/2023Gmail's new Generative AI "Help Me Write" vs ChatGPT, attempting to respond to an Area Chair invitation for ICDE 2024. ChatGPT is still way better. This is something I expected Google to be much better at, given that it has 1B+ users. (And to clarify, I did accept the invite!) 000
Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 10/05/2023“Visual Blocks for ML is a Google visual programming framework that lets you create ML pipelines in a no-code graph editor. Quickly prototype workflows by connecting drag-and-drop ML components, including models, user inputs, processors, and visualizations.” visualblocks.withgoogle.com 000
Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 10/05/2023Crazy stuff: RT @bryan.world: "Apple’s market cap is as large as every business in the UK, combined." 100
Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 10/05/2023I had no idea Taylor was going to be so prophetic about startup hiring 000
Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 09/05/2023Glad that Uber allows you to turn this off: I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that user data is being monetized to 3rd parties. Settings > Privacy. 000
Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 02/05/2023Mike Bostock's plot of bank failures using FDIC data: observablehq.com/@mbostock/bank-fai… 010
Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 02/05/2023There is a lot of truth to this: the Internet is riddled with complicated frontends to datasets that are just a few megabytes. 110
Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 24/04/2023I don't think I've seen a major artist announce something like this before? Grimes announces that she's ok with AI-generated music featuring her voice with a 50% royalty split, comparing it to standard collaboration deals. What happens to creative control? 110