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We leverage the Sturdy Statistics toolkit to explore unstructured, noisy datasets. We also go over the internal details of our technical details.

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2026 22

  1. Logs as Tables
  2. Aug 20, 2026 Mike McCourt
  3. Containment without Containers
  4. Jul 29, 2026 Mike McCourt
  5. Why We Don’t Trust the Database With Authentication
  6. Apr 18, 2026 Mike McCourt
  7. Two Kinds of Programs: Closed Worlds and Open Worlds
  8. Apr 7, 2026 Mike McCourt
  9. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Make for Ops
  10. Mar 13, 2026 Mike McCourt
  11. The Trap of Unstructured Data: Why We Over-Delegate to LLMs
  12. Feb 20, 2026 Mike McCourt
  13. The “Token Tax:” Why LLMs Break Traditional Software Economics
  14. Feb 13, 2026 Mike McCourt
  15. The 185-Microsecond Type Hint
  16. Feb 7, 2026 Mike McCourt
  17. I Thought This Would Take 20 Minutes
  18. Feb 1, 2026 Mike McCourt
  19. Why We Built (and Open-Sourced) a New RoughTime Implementation
  20. Jan 23, 2026 Mike McCourt
  21. When Less Is More: The Benefits of Training Exclusively on Your Own Data
  22. Jan 14, 2026 Mike McCourt

2025 20

  1. In Praise of HTML and CSS
  2. Dec 14, 2025 Mike McCourt
  3. State of Show HN 2025
  4. Nov 21, 2025 Kian Ghodoussi
  5. The Performance of Clarity: Why We Chose C for Our Statistical Engine
  6. Oct 28, 2025 Mike McCourt
  7. The Quiet Power of SQL
  8. Oct 21, 2025 Mike McCourt
  9. Bottlenecks, Pure Functions & a Newborn: Why We Migrated from Python to Clojure
  10. Oct 14, 2025 Mike McCourt
  11. Bayesian Hierarchical Models: Structured Uncertainty for Hierarchical Data
  12. Oct 7, 2025 Mike McCourt
  13. Hypernetworks: Neural Networks for Hierarchical Data
  14. Oct 1, 2025 Mike McCourt
  15. Cutting DuckDB Storage in Half with SciPy-Style Sparse Arrays
  16. Sep 21, 2025 Kian Ghodoussi
  17. AI Keeps Shifting Right: Coping with the Limitations of Large Language Models
  18. Sep 5, 2025 Kian Ghodoussi
  19. Aug 1, 2025 Kian Ghodoussi
  20. Jul 5, 2025 Michael McCourt