#42 Daily Tech: Scaling our Spreadsheet Engine from Thousands to Billions of Cells
Scaling our Spreadsheet Engine from Thousands to Billions of Cells
Causal is a spreadsheet built for the 21st century to help people work better with numbers. Behind Causal’s innocent web UI is a complex calculation engine — an interpreter that executes formulas on an in-memory, multidimensional database. The engine sends the result from evaluating expressions like Price * Units to the browser. The engine calculates the result for each dimension such as time, product name, country e.g. what the revenue was for a single product, during February ‘22, in Australia.
Meta open sources early-stage AI translation tool that works across 200 languages
AI researchers at Facebook-owner Meta have created a translation tool that works between 200 different languages. The company is open-sourcing the project to encourage others to build on their efforts.
Private equity may be heading for a fall
If investors in equities and debt markets will remember anything of the first half of 2022 it will be generational sell-offs. But the turmoil in public markets has not yet fully bled into private equity: fundraising has marched on, large deals are still being consummated and paper returns look strong. The blood, however, may be about to flow. Buy-out barbarians made their names in the late 1980s, not the 1970s, for good reason. The corporate buy-out is a financial ploy unsuited to the coming period of slow growth and high inflation; no previous boom-and-bust cycle in private-equity’s 40-year history has been like it. Most important, cheap debt is unlikely to be able to save the day.
There are people losing their jobs that have been there over a decade. In addition, there is a current blackout on selling any Vested Stock.
Video game sales set to fall for first time in years as industry braces for recession
Global video game sales are forecast to contract 1.2% to $188 billion in 2022, according to research from Ampere Analysis.
NIST Announces First Four Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms
“Today’s announcement is an important milestone in securing our sensitive data against the possibility of future cyberattacks from quantum computers,” said Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo. “Thanks to NIST’s expertise and commitment to cutting-edge technology, we are able to take the necessary steps to secure electronic information so U.S. businesses can continue innovating while maintaining the trust and confidence of their customers.”
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