iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Wan Shen Lim

Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

👊I've joined the crew at @clickhouse.com to establish the *ClickHouse Labs* research group. We'll be working side-by-side with ClickHouse engineers to cook up ways to make the system even faster. I'll also be exploring new research topics related to PostgreSQL. clickhouse.com/blog/andy-pa...

clickhouse.com

Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs | ClickHouse

I am excited to announce that I am joining ClickHouse, Inc. to establish and lead a new research team at ClickHouse Labs.

2676

Wan Shen Lim @wslim.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Unreliable systems and misbehaving agents are surprisingly similar. Odd behavior. Messy leftover state. After graduating from @andypavlo.bsky.social's lab @db.cs.cmu.edu, @17zhangw.bsky.social and I started @onewillai.bsky.social to adapt decades of database solutions to today's agent problems.

050

Wan Shen Lim @wslim.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

The chickens almost succeeded in stopping me. (specifically, a giant eagle rotisserie chicken from last week)

040

Wan Shen Lim @wslim.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Maybe that's why they permanently decommissioned the CSD coffee machines 🥲

010

Wan Shen Lim @wslim.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

DOOMQL max fps as a new database benchmark? You could release a new workload trace every year by capturing a multiplayer session.

000

Reposted by Wan Shen Lim

Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The report of my death was an exaggeration. I am still alive and will be in SFO this week to speak about using LLMs to automatically tune databases. Wed Aug 6th @ 5:30pm at Databricks MTV: lu.ma/ha0dc4nj

0212

Wan Shen Lim @wslim.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I just got a MMR booster last week! Fully covered by student insurance, experienced no side effects. The only downside was the 5 minutes to walk there, pretty cheap for peace of mind.

120

Wan Shen Lim @wslim.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

From another angle, admiralcloudberg's plane crash investigation summaries go into safety's complexity. e.g., half mm part error admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-matter-of-... , automation surprise admiralcloudberg.medium.com/one-hundred-... , human factors admiralcloudberg.medium.com/painted-into...

100

Wan Shen Lim @wslim.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

It was great chatting with you! (also, we're @db.cs.cmu.edu not @cmudb.bsky.social :) )

010

Wan Shen Lim @wslim.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

This is the case at CMU too: projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o... Our exec compensation tends to stay at around 0.6-0.7% of total expenses. Other universities that I checked have it at 0.2-0.3%, but the absolute amount is roughly the same (~10m).

projects.propublica.org

Carnegie Mellon University - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica

Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...

110