The Value of Simple Models
Why early atmospheric simulations 'blew up' and what it teaches us about systemic equilibrium.
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Val Data
Data insights, analytics, and technical explorations.
I’m Dominick Ryan. As a Senior Systems and Data Engineer, I build reliable data transformations and cloud-native infrastructure. NextValData is my curated repository of academic and technical documentation—a personal archive shared in the hope that it helps others, while being just self-serving enough.
My Posts
DB Basics with DuckDB and some Nuances
An exploration of database engineering terminology gaps, the differences between ETL and ELT compute paradigms, and the SELECT * query performance nuances in analytical engines like DuckDB.
The Databases that are Eating the Internet
An analysis of vector databases like Milvus, Qdrant, and Pinecone, and how they manage semantic infrastructure in a resource-constrained cloud.