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Simfonični orkester RTV Slovenija je v četrtek, 4. junija 2026, v Gallusovi dvorani Cankarjevega doma sklenil letošnjo sezono koncertnega cikla Kromatika. Pred orkester je tokrat stopil domači dirigent Davorin Mori, izvedli pa so Koncert za violino Petra Iljiča Čajkovskega, pri katerem se jim je na odru pridružil solist Luka Faulisi, ter Simfonijo št. 1 Antona Brucknerja. Komentar dogodka je pripravila Klara Žnideršič (Glasbeni utrip, 10. 6. 2026). Prvi del večera je pripadel Čajkovskemu in violinistu Luku Faulisiju, ki se je po lanskem uspešnem gostovanju vrnil na oder Kromatike. Že takrat je navdušil z izbrušeno tehniko, ki mu je bila v Ravelovem Ciganu pisana na kožo, tokrat pa je pokazal še nekoliko zrelejšo glasbeno osebnost. Njegova interpretacija violinskega koncerta ni temeljila samo na virtuoznosti in brezhibni intonaciji, temveč tudi na premišljenih dinamičnih kontrastih in pogumnih umikih v skoraj neslišne zvočne odtenke. Ne glede na tehnično zahtevnost je solist dajal občutek, da ima delo ves čas pod popolnim nadzorom. Tudi v najbolj zgoščenih odsekih ni deloval obremenjen z zahtevnostjo parta, temveč je pozornost usmerjal v oblikovanje glasbenega toka in komunikacijo z orkestrom. Glasbo je spremljal z izrazno telesno govorico in tudi pripetljaj med kadenco prvega stavka, ko mu je lok za trenutek ušel iz rok, ga ni vrgel iz tira. Brez oklevanja je nadaljeval igro, kot da se ni zgodilo nič, kar je le še potrdilo njegovo odrsko suverenost. Navdušenje je občinstvo z aplavzom pokazalo že po prvem stavku, in če je tudi orkester v uvodnem stavku izstopal s prefinjeno mehkim začetkom in trdno spremljavo briljantnih hitrih pasaž, je drugi stavek razkril nekaj njegovih manj prepričljivih trenutkov. Pihalni uvod, predvsem v fagotih in oboah, ni dosegel želene intonančne natančnosti, pa tudi miren zaključek ni bil časovno usklajen med sekcijami. Zato je bil finale toliko prijetnejše presenečenje. Tretji stavek namreč zahteva natančno časovno ujemanje med solistom in orkestrom že od prve dobe in orkester je ta izziv uspešno izpeljal. Ponovitve osrednje teme so bile vselej natančne in prepričljivo oblikovane, dirigent pa je znal slediti solistovim zamislim ter jih vključiti v orkestrsko celoto. Po zasluženem aplavzu je Faulisi za dodatek zaigral še Perkinsonov Louisiana Blues Strut in tudi v slogovno bolj sproščenem delu prikazal enako raven izvajalske prepričljivosti. Brucknerjeva Prva simfonija je od dirigenta zahtevala nekoliko drugačen pristop, kot smo ga slišali v prvem delu večera. Če je pri Čajkovskem Mori sledil solistovim zamislim in skrbel za prožno komunikacijo z orkestrom, je simfonija zahtevala odločnejše vodenje skoraj celotno petdesetminutno partituro. Toda dirigent je že v intervjuju pred koncertom poudaril svoje načelo enakovrednega odnosa do glasbenikov v orkestru, in to se je odražalo tudi v izvedbi. Oblikovanje melodičnih linij je bilo povečini prepuščeno orkestrskim članom, dirigentsko vodenje pa je ostajalo predvsem na ravni zanesljive koordinacije ansambla. Tempi so bili urejeni, vstopi večinoma pravilni, številni odseki pa so ponudili vrsto lepih glasbenih trenutkov. Ob flavtističnih solih in klarinetih velja omeniti tudi rogove, ki so nosili pomemben del orkestrskega dogajanja. Brucknerjeva mojstrsko zasnovana simfonična arhitektura je tudi brez večjih dirigentovih interpretativnih posegov ohranila prepričljivost. Široko zastavljeni zvočni loki in bogata orkestracija, ki spominja na skladateljeve orgelske mojstrovine, so poslušalca postopoma vodili proti sklepnemu koralu, ki ga je dirigent izpostavil kot osrednji cilj celotnega dela. In prav zaključek je bil najprepričljivejši del izvedbe. Trobila so ustvarila mogočno zvočno podobo in občutek veličastnosti, ki je učinkovito sklenil koncertni večer in sezono. Ob koncu velja omeniti še odpoved Matičičevega dela Trans ..., zaradi katere je sklepni koncert sezone namesto treh obsegal le dve točki. Ker letos mineva sto let od skladateljevega rojstva, koncert pa je potekal le dan po njegovem rojstnem dnevu, je bila uvrstitev dela na spored skoraj gotovo tudi simbolna gesta. Zato je njegova odsotnost na zaključnem koncertu sezone toliko bolj presenetila, še posebej ker je bila Matičičeva skladba ena redkih priložnosti v letošnji sezoni za srečanje z glasbo slovenskega skladatelja. Koncertni list je kot razlog navedel »objektivne okoliščine«, a vendar bi si takšna sprememba zaslužila nekoliko podrobnejše pojasnilo. S tem se je končala še ena sezona Kromatike, ki je ponudila nekaj izjemnih glasbenih doživetih in nadejamo se jih tudi v prihodnje. S šestimi koncerti bo naslednja sezona sicer občutno krajša, kar pa ni nujno slaba novica. Manjše število dogodkov namreč lahko pomeni tudi še bolj premišljeno programsko zasnovo in več prostora za širokopotezne repertoarne izbire.

Rastlinske tujerodne vrste k nam prihajajo odkar ljudje potujemo po svetu. Ker je teh potovanj v zadnjih desetletjih precej več, kot v preteklosti, se ta proces intenzivira, kar pa prinaša številne izzive. V okviru projekta LIFE OrnamentalIAS so letos pripravili poseben priročnik, ki omogoča odgovorno odločanje. O tem je spregovorila naša gostja Ana Dolenc, z Zavoda RS za varstvo narave.

Elrendelték Őrsi Gergely, Láng Zsolt, Molnár Zsolt és még öt ember letartóztatását. Magyar Péter az ír miniszterelnököt fogadta Budapesten. A Budapesti V. és XIII. Kerületi Ügyészség ejtette a Karácsony Gergely ellen emelt vádat. Megállapodott a tűzszünet végrehajtásáról Izrael és Libanon. Ismét rekordot döntött a Tisza Párt. Kezdje a napot a HVG hírpodcastjával!

Ker so romani izjemno raznoliki po svojem obsegu, obliki in vsebini, tudi ni nemudoma jasno, kaj bi utegnila biti tista njihova skupna lastnost, zaradi katere jih vendarle lahko spravimo pod isto oznako: romanTolstojeva Ana Karenina je, kot dobro vemo, precej špehata knjiga, medtem ko je Cankarjeva Hiša Marije Pomočnice čisto tanka. Goethejevo Trpljenje mladega Wertherja se sklene tragično, s samomorom, medtem ko se Prevzetnost in pristranost Jane Austen izteče v pravi pravcati happy end. Cervantesov Don Kihot kar kipi od napetih prigod in preobratov, medtem ko Oblomov, osrednji junak v istoimenskem delu Gončarova, komaj vstane iz postelje. Povedi, v katerih je Proust izpisal V Swannovem svetu, so vratolomno nalomljene v številna priredja in podredja, ki v iskanju končne pike zlahka bohotno napolnijo celo stran ali še več, medtem ko so Hemingwayevi stavki v Komu zvoni poudarjeno kratki, čvrsti, strogo obvladani. Medtem ko García Márquez v Stotih letih samote po svoje popisuje zgodovino Kolumbije, nam Cao Xueqin s Sanjami v rdeči sobi slika osupljivo podobo Kitajske sredi 18. stoletja. In ko smo že pri stoletjih – Petronij je svoj Satirikon pisal v prvem, Han Kang pa svojo Vegetarijanko v enaindvajsetem. Ni kaj, svetovni romaneskni kanon sestavljajo dela, ki si med seboj niso niti malo podobna. Pa vendar za vse te knjige pravimo, da so to romani. Zakaj? Kaj neki bi utegnila biti tista njihova sicer izmuzljiva, težko ugotovljiva, skrivnostna, a vendar skupna lastnost, ki nam omogoča, da jih – pa naj bodo še tako različni med seboj – vendarle lahko spravimo pod isto oznako: roman? – To je vprašanje, ki nas je zaposlovalo v tokratnem Kulturnem fokusu, ko smo pred mikrofonom gostili komparativista, predavatelja na Oddelku za primerjalno književnost in literarno teorijo ljubljanske Filozofska fakultete, akad. dr. Toma Virka. Naš gost je namreč pred nekaj meseci pri Založbi Univerze v Ljubljani izdal razpravo Spisi o teorijah romana, kjer na pregleden in komunikativen način pretresa nekaj najbolj intrigantnih, intelektualno ambicioznih teorij, ki so jih v 20. stoletju ponudili raziskovalci literature, da bi odgovorili na zagonetno vprašanje, kaj je to roman oziroma, še natančneje, po čem je roman pravzaprav roman. Foto: don Kihot in Sančo Pansa, junaka prvega evropskega novoveškega romana, kakor ju je leta 1893 upodobil francoski slikar Louis Anquetin, litografija (Wikipedia, javna last)

Egy évtizedeken át működő, párthatárokon átívelő pénzügyi-politikai rendszer is bukik most Molnár Zsolttal együtt, mondja Kerényi György, aki hat évvel ezelőtt elsőként tárta fel a most hatósági akciók középpontjába került parkfenntartói cégháló működését. A Szabad Európa volt újságírója szerint az önkormányzati megrendelésekből származó pénzek az illegális pártfinanszírozás egyik csatornáját jelenthették, amelyben szocialista és fideszes szereplők egyaránt érintettek lehettek. Arról is beszél, miért volt érdeke a Fidesznek életben tartani a saját ellenzékét, hogyan akadályozta a régi MSZP-elit Botka László kísérletét, és miért tart attól Kerényi, hogy a harminc év alatt kiépült mély struktúrák egy politikai váltást is túlélhetnek. A műsorvezető Benyó Rita.

V tokratnem komentarju Erika Ašič spomni na spominsko slovesnost, ki bo v soboto, 6. junija pri breznu pod Macesnovo gorico v Kočevskem rogu: »Videti je, kot da prejšnja oblast ne pozna prav nobene razumne meje. Nikakor se ni pripravljena umakniti s svojih položajev in spustiti vajeti iz rok, kot jih nikoli zares ni. Lahko bi rekli, da gre na žive in mrtve. Dobesedno. Ker če ne bodo na oblasti oni, bo pa kdo drug. In če je drug, je za njih problem … Toda: zakaj že? Zakaj je tako težko izpustiti iz rok nekaj, za kar si bil sicer nekaj časa odgovoren (pustimo sedaj ob strani, da zelo neuspešno), ampak ni tvoje? No, naj ne bi bilo. A tega Robert Golob in njegov cvetober levih aktivistov ne razumejo. Prepričani so, da jim oblast pripada. In s tem vse materialno, kar sicer ustvarjajo in ustvarjamo drugi, oni pa v imenu oblasti pobirajo – prevečkrat zgolj za svoje žepe.

»V Ljubljano sva se na preglede peljali vsaj 360-krat, kar nanese kakih 13.000 evrov stroškov za gorivo. Povrnjenih sva dobili le približno 1200 evrov. Čeprav gre za smrtonosno bolezen, je nadomestilo za bolniško odsotnost le 80 odstotkov plače, kar v mojem primeru znaša 670 evrov. Prisiljena sem bila prositi za pomoč,« o svojem boju ne le za hčerkino zdravje, pač pa hkrati tudi za finančno preživetje pravi mama sedemletnice s hudo obliko onkološke bolezni. Ker deklica zaradi nevarnosti okužbe ne sme uporabljati niti skupnega prevoza z reševalnim vozilom, kaj šele javnega prevoza, morata vožnje financirati sami. Njuna finančna stiska bi bila brez pomoči humanitarnih organizacij še bistveno večja. »Veliko bi pomenila 100-odstotno nadomestilo plače in poplačilo potnih stroškov,« poziva tudi v imenu številnih drugih staršev v podobnih stiskah.

E-skiroji in lahka motorna vozila so v zadnjih letih postali pomemben del sodobne mobilnosti. So hitri, praktični in primerni za vsakodnevne poti v službo ali šolo, lahko pa so tudi zelo nevarni. Ker njihova uporaba narašča, se povečuje tudi število prometnih nesreč in poškodb, ki so še posebej pogoste v poletnih mesecih. Lansko leto so policisti zabeležili več kot 300 prometnih nesreč, v katerih so bili udeleženi e-skiroji.

Krovna organizacija naših rojakov na avstrijskem Koroškem Narodni svet koroških Slovencev išče naslednika Valentina Inzka. Slednji je bil na čelu organizacije od leta 2013 in za nov mandat ni več kandidiral. Ker za neposredne volitve predsednika Narodnega sveta ni kandidiral nihče, bodo po pravilniku novega vodjo izvolili iz vrst članov Zbora narodnih predstavnikov. To je najvišje telo NSKS. Za 48 mest v njem je kandidiralo 60 rojakov. Od 6.165 upravičencev se je volitev v Zbor narodnih predstavnikov, ki so potekale med 17. aprilom in 8. majem, udeležilo 1.905 oseb. To pomeni 30,9 odstotka in je skoraj tri odstotne točke več kot na prejšnjih volitvah leta 2018. Sodelovanje in soodločanje je dokaz žive volje, da se okrepi neposredna demokracija v naših vrstah, je po objavi rezultatov podčrtal Valentin Inzko. Ustanovna seja Zbora narodnih predstavnikov bo 19. junija. Najkasneje tri mesece zatem naj bi Narodni svet koroških Slovencev dobil novega predsednika.

Veliki jezikovni modeli umetne inteligence postajajo pomembni gradniki infrastrukture sodobne družbe. Ker je večina naprednih sistemov nastala predvsem za angleški jezik in velike svetovne trge, se zastavljajo vprašanja, kako bodo ti sistemi delovali v slovenščini in v kolikšni meri bomo v Sloveniji v prihodnosti uporabniki tujih sistemov, v kolikšni pa ustvarjalci lastne jezikovne tehnologije. V okviru nacionalnega projekta Povejmo je nastal GAMS, to je kratica za generativni model za slovenščino. Naš gost Tomaž Savodnik pa je avtor Zlatoroga, enega prvih večjih slovenskih jezikovnih modelov, in Lame, oziroma klepetalnega robota TinySLlama (Foto: Pixabay).

Debata je tekla predvsem o zadnji tekmi z Bravom, na kateri smo videli sedem mladincev in enega influenserja. Ker tekma ni odločala o ničemer, smo več pozornosti namenili tem mladim igralcem in razvoju mladih nogometašev nasploh. Ostalo pa je tudi nekaj časa za druge teme, kot so možnost prihoda novega vlagatelja, verjetno slovo trenerja in zaključek košarkarske sezone.

Analisamos detalhadamente o segundo capítulo do mangá Saint Seiya: Tenkai Hen, destacando o reencontro carregado de amnésia entre Seiya e Saori aos pés do Santuário. Debatemos as implicações da perda de memória da protagonista, que parece esquecer eventos recentes enquanto mantém uma conexão espiritual profunda com o nosso herói. Abordamos a controversa representação de um mundo mergulhado no caos e na decadência social após a abdicação da divindade de Atena.  Também examinamos o retorno inédito de Seika, que vive uma rotina pacífica com o irmão e é a única a reter lembranças do passado. Além disso, exploramos as maquinações de Ker e o despertar de espectros, questionando se a ausência de ordem divina justifica a corrupção da natureza humana. Por fim, elogiamos a qualidade visual superior desta fase e mais algumas especulações sobre o futuro confronto entre o livre-arbítrio dos mortais e o autoritarismo do Olimpo. ACESSE Blog: http://podcastsaintseiya.blogspot.com.brSimpleCast: http://simplecast.com/PodcastSaintSeiyaFeed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/podcastsaintseiyaDiscord: https://discordapp.com/invite/T9JVaWS

Maša Bogataj (Masharik) je napisala komad o iskanju notranjega miru, iskanju mentalnega zatočišča, kamor se lahko umaknemo pred vrvežem. Ker je Maša tudi potapljačica, si ob navdihu Georgea Harrisona idealno milino in tišino fiktivno zamišlja na dnu morja. Čeprav bi številni tam radi ostali morda celo za zmeraj in obteženi s kamnom, to še zdaleč ni samomorilski komad. Zapiski: Videospot Na dnu morja (na 1:41 na Mašino ramo spontano prileti hrošč) Komadi: Argentina Komadi: Daleč je za naju pomlad

Piše Miša Gams, bereta Ana Bohte in Jure Franko. Lucija Mirkac Fortin, profesorica slovenščine na Gimnaziji Ravne na Koroškem, je pesnica, pisateljica, kantavtorica in vsestranska kulturna delavka slovensko-poljskih korenin. Literarno deluje na več področjih – objavlja v literarnih revijah, je tekstopiska, piše spremne besede, režira drame in muzikale, organizira delavnice kreativnega pisanja, pri gledaliških uprizoritvah deluje tudi kot kostumografinja, scenografinja, igralka in glasbenica, ki je med drugim uglasbila okrog sto svojih pesmi in še bi lahko naštevali. Po pesniški zbirki Asimptote je pred nami roman Petrihorion, ki opisuje odisejado različnih glavnih junakov, med katerimi sta v ospredju neimenovana protagonistka in protagonist, ki se asimptotično približujeta drug drugemu, ne da bi se v resnici dosegla. Roman, ki ima v podnaslovu napis Ker srečata se lahko samo na bregu, se spopada z apokalipso na več ravneh, ob tem pa ga prevevajo številni poetični detajli, ki jih motrijo filozofsko navdahnjeni junaki tako rekoč iz prve perspektive. Čeprav roman, ki je razdeljen na dvanajst poglavij in tri večje tematske sklope, nima jasno začrtane pripovedne linije v smislu klasično razdelane zgodbe, temveč ga lahko beremo kot zaporedje dnevniških refleksij, kratkih zgodb ali črtic, lahko v njem razberemo krožno strukturo in osrednji motiv zbliževanja med subjektoma, ki se iščeta na različne načine, medtem ko njun breg v povodnji vse bolj izginja. V prvem sklopu z naslovom Plavati v horizontalo se nahajajo Zapiski nekega muholovca, ki preučuje obnašanje muh in biološko strukturo pajkov, dokler se na koncu ne zaloti, da iz njihove perspektive opazuje ljudi kot “opešane kiklope”: “Ničesar ni, kar bi lahko vrnilo izgubljene besede, ki se kot vešče zaletavajo v luč in omahujejo na tla. Ničesar ni. Prekleto … Ležiš v postelji in odštevaš trenutke, prva zmota, druga zmota, tretja zmota, usodna zmota, ležiš in zdaj veš, da te gleda in se ti roga, da je vseskozi vedela in čakala, da vidiš tudi ti, čudno dvooko bitje, opešani kiklop, velika skrivenčena packa, skrita za zavesami. In muhe niti nimajo sedem tisoč oči, samo šest tisoč jih imajo, ki še vedno bolščijo vate in sprašujejo, bo kaj?” Drugi sklop z naslovom Plavati navzdol se začenja s tridelnim liričnim esejem o smrti sršena, ki ga človeška sila zdrobi na tleh. Bolečina, ki jo čuti ob fizičnem udarcu, se združuje s primarno tesnobo živih bitij, ko pisateljica podrobno opiše njegovo moledovanje za čim hitrejšo smrt: “… pridi, stopi na mojo glavo, vzemi mi bolečino, vzemi mi strah, pridi, globoko bom vdihnil in gledal tvoje stopalo, kako se spušča nad moje otrplo telo, potem bom slišal, kako pokajo prsi in poka hrbet, kako pokajo nožice, kako poka glava. In potem ne bom slišal ničesar več in bo lahko zima …” V razdelku z naslovom Hotel sem seči globoko avtorica opisuje samoto, ki jo začuti igralka na odru, ko je soočena s svojo praznino, otopelostjo in krhkostjo. Ta spominja na drobljivost sršenjega trupelca, ki vse bolj razpada v “neopredeljivo drgetanje komaj še podprtih koščkov zunanje lupine”. Zdi se kot bi pisateljica skupaj s podrobnim seciranjem sršenov, muh in pajkov postopno analizirala obrambne mehanizme človeka, ki v želji po spoznavanju lastnega jedra oz. eksistencialne srži razbija in odmetava kostume, maske in “lupinaste” sloje psihološkega aparata, ki je že a priori ustvarjen na nihilistični grozi in uboju, kot ga opisuje Stara zaveza. V romanu namreč najdemo kar nekaj svetopisemskih alegorij pa tudi močno simboliko v ponavljajočih se dejanjih, kot so razbijanje kristalov – kar bi lahko ustrezalo razbijanju psihičnih blokad. Naraščajoča reka je metafora za ozaveščanje potlačenih čustev, iskanje prizemljitve v prepletu zemlje in vode: “Res je. Voda in zemlja se lahko srečata le na bregu. In če ni bregov, srečanje ostane le privid. Potrebuješ breg. Potrebuješ bilko, ki se je lahko oprimeš, ko se znajdeš sredi rečnega toka, sredi prostrane širine in globine. Potrebuješ breg, sicer ostaneš tam. Sicer samo si. In bližina, si rekel, bližina bo vedno daleč.” Ob branju romana Lucije Mirkac Fortin Petrihorion se ne moremo znebiti občutka dejà vu, kot da bi brali o istih stvareh na vsakič novi ravni ozaveščanja, kot da je branje sámo pravzaprav produkt naših lastnih sinhronicitet in lucidnih sanj, iz katerih ne moremo pobegniti. Kljub poetičnim fragmentom, ki opisujejo številna agregatna stanja bivanja in razkrajanja, se kmalu zavemo, da se za abstraktnimi refleksijami skriva močna in kompaktna dramaturška struktura, ki nas drži v svojem objemu, dokler se z njo ne prebijemo do zadnjega dejanja, ko se reka in hrib v podobi neimenovane ženske in moškega združita: “In bila si reka in bil si hrib, bila sva divje razkrajanje sveta, ujetega v brezvetrje, naraščanje in padanje, vzpenjanje in spuščanje, težka napetost kroženja drug okrog drugega, trepetajoča os približevanja in oddaljevanja…” Branje romana Petrihorion Lucije Mirkac Fortin je kot gledanje filmskega Dekaloga znamenitega poljskega režiserja Krzystofa Kieślowskega, ki vključuje tako analizo raznih psiholoških ekstremizmov znotraj samodestruktivne civilizacije kot tudi poglobljeno študijo o specifični ljubezni in umiranju ...

Nors Zarasai dar ne kurortinis miestas, bet traukia ir tiek! Kaip gerai ir turiningai leisti laiką ežerų krašte, patars istorikai Ramūnas Keršys ir Šarūnas Subatavičius.Avilių bendruomenė susitelkė ir miesteliui grąžino istorinį pavadinimą. Apie bendruomenės ir mūsų lūkesčius kalbamės Avilių bibliotekoje su Imbrado seniūnijos seniūnu Vygirdu Žalkausku, Avilių bendruomenės pirmininku Vidu Slapšinsku ir bibliotekininke Birute Rodiene.Atstatytoje Kamariškių dvaro sodyboje įsikūrė „Inovatorių slėnis“. Duris lankytojams, svečiams, rezidentams atvėrė duris įrengta inovatyvi kūrybinė erdvė, meno ir garso studijos, renginių salė. Monika Rinkevičiūtė.Ved. Jolanta Jurkūnienė

Umetna inteligenca velja za tehnologijo, ki bo spremenila praktično vse in to velja še zlasti za področje vojaške tehnologije in sistemov. Tekma med velesilami se je v zadnjih letih izrazito pospešila in načrtovanje napadov kot tudi strateške odločitve se vse bolj naslanjajo na umetno inteligenco. Spor med ameriškim podjetjem Anthropic in Pentagonom o mejah uporabe trenutno najzmogljivejšega modela generativne umetne inteligence Claude je jasno pokazal, kako zelo so se spremenile prioritete in načrti. Ker je podjetje želelo zagotovila, da se njihov model Claude, ki velja za najzmogljivejšega na trgu, ne bo uporabljal za nadzorovanje Američanov ter za razvoj avtonomnega orožja, je dobil prepoved sodelovanja z ameriško vlado in z vsemi podjetji, ki z njo sodelujejo. Vsekakor gre za pomenljiv precedens, ki med drugim kaže, da polno avtonomna orožja niso več potencialna nevarnost oziroma stranpot, ampak vse bolj primarna vizija vojn prihodnosti. Kaj vse se s hitrim pohodom umetne inteligence na vojaško področje vojskovanja spreminja, so pomagali osvetliti: - obramboslovec prof. dr. Iztok Prezelj s fakultete za družbene vede Univerze v Ljubljani; - strokovnjak za umetno inteligenco prof. dr. Matej Kristan s Fakultete za računalništvo in informatiko Univerze v Ljubljani; - načelnik sektorja za razvoj zmogljivosti Slovenske vojske polkovnik Jernej Peternel.

»Ker sem torej tvoj, o dobra Mati, varuj me, brani me…,« so besede molitve, ki se v mesecu maju, ob šmarnicah, še bolj goreče dvigajo k naši nebeški Materi ...

Uusi auto tietää sinusta paljon, jopa liikaa. Autot vakoilevat käyttäjiään surutta. Kerätty tieto myydään esimerkiksi vakuutusyhtiöille, kertoo BBC.

Kmalu se bodo začeli sprejemni preizkusi za tiste, ki bi se želeli vpisati v glasbeno šolo. V tokratni oddaji smo izvedeli, kako potekajo, kako izbrati pravi inštrument, kakšna disciplina je potrebna in kako je z nadaljevanjem glasbene kariere po končani nižji glasbeni šoli. Ker je bila naša gostja ravnateljica Glasbene šole Matije Tomca Marta Močnik Pirc, ki je tudi učiteljica solo petja, smo se posvetili tudi tej tematiki.

Ker v našem zdravstvu ne zmanjka križev in težav, v ospredje znova postavljamo bolnike. Naša sogovornica je bila dolgoletna zastopnica pacientovih pravic Adela Postružnik, ki se je nedavno poslovila s te funkcije. Kakšni so njene izkušnje in kakšni pogledi na prihodnost našega zdravstva?

Lotrič za pravično obravnavo pri kritju nadomestil za bolniško odsotnost pri obrtnikih, nosilcih dejavnosti in kmetov z osnovno dejavnostjo na kmetiji.V devetih letih v Sloveniji občutno zmanjšanje števila brezposelnih invalidov.Sredi poletja sekcijsko merjenje hitrosti na nekaterih avtocestnih odsekih.Predstavniki podmladkov SDS, NSi, SLS, Fokuss, Demokratov in Resni.ce v skupni izjavi parlamentarne stranke pozvali k dostojnemu pokopu žrtev povojnih pobojev.Jutrišnja spominska slovesnost na Trgu republike v Ljubljani v poklon žrtvam komunizma z naslovom: Ker smo ljudje.Vreme: Zjutraj in dopoldne bo še oblačno in deževno. Popoldne bodo padavine od zahoda postopno ponehale.

Acompanhamos, em tempo real, o lançamento do primeiro capítulo da Saga do Céu de Os Cavaleiros do Zodíaco.  Ansiosíssimos pela continuação do mangá após décadas de espera! Mostramos o processo de compra da revista digital japonesa e as primeiras impressões das páginas do capítulo. Focamos na aparição da deusa Ker, no despertar de um novo espectro e na amnésia de Saori e Seiya após o confronto com Apolo. Analisamos a arte de Masami Kurumada, teorizamos sobre o papel do exército de Hades e debatemos o ritmo lento da narrativa. Vamos! ACESSE Blog: http://podcastsaintseiya.blogspot.com.brSimpleCast: http://simplecast.com/PodcastSaintSeiyaFeed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/podcastsaintseiyaDiscord: https://discordapp.com/invite/T9JVaWS

[We had some technical challenges with Dave's audio, and cleaned it up as good as possible, but felt the content was so relevant that it was important to get it out to KER listeners]    In this Daily Editorial, we are joined by Dave Erfle, Founder and Editor of Junior Miner Junky, to discuss some fundamental and technical investing insights around the recent pop higher in the precious metals sector.   Gold, silver, and the PM stocks have been moving up the last 2 weeks, and copper has been trading up at all-time highs the last few trading sessions.   Dave reviews the macroeconomic factors moving the larger markets but balances out the longer-range trends with some more near-term technical levels he is watching.  He also provides some fundamental insights into some of the stocks held in the JMJ portfolio, and how he is managing this current environment.    Key discussion points include:   Macro Market Movers and Geopolitics: He discusses the soaring oil and gas prices and global food scarcity due to the war in the Middle East and continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz as factors creating uncertainty in the markets. However, Dave points out that none of the fundamental drivers behind gold's ascent have changed, from sovereign debt to central bank buying, and lack of open interest in the COT. Technical Outlook on Gold and Silver:  The precious metals have been stuck in rangebound trading and a consolidation for the last 7 weeks, and he feels it would be healthy to see things consolidate a bit longer, to build the energy to really move higher.  Dave would like to see gold break out above $4,900 and for silver to break decisively above $90 to get more confident that this consolidation phase has run its course. The Gold Miners Bullish Percentage Index: Dave has pointed out the last few weeks that when the (BPGDM) got down to an 11 reading in late April that this demonstrated how oversold the gold miners were getting, and so a rally higher seemed quite probable.  Now that this has played out, he is looking for more traction and technical confirmation signals in the mining stocks. Key Moving Averages for GDX and GDXJ: The key technical level Dave is watching on the precious metals ETF charts is the 18-week moving average; which has recently acted as overhead resistance.  Pricing in GDX, GDXJ, SIL, SILJ have just recently moved above this level, but his preference would be to see pricing come down to test it the 18-week SMA as support that holds to signal that the next leg higher is on stronger footing. Precious Metals Stocks Breaking Out Of March Consolidation Patterns: Dave points to precious metals stocks that have had strong fundamental newsflow as seeing corresponding outperformance, based on their company catalysts. He flagged the strong performance over the last couple months coming out of the March consolidations in JMJ portfolio stocks like AbraSilver Resource Corp. (TSX: ABRA) (OTCQX: ABBRF), Amex Exploration Inc. (TSXV: AMX) (FSE: MX0) (OTCQX: AMXEF), Maple Gold Mines Ltd. (TSXV: MGM) (OTCQX: MGMLF), Thesis Gold & Silver Inc. (TSXV: TAU) (OTCQX: THSGF). Bull Market Playbook and Portfolio Strategies: Dave outlines his systematic rules-based approach to trimming partial positions in portfolio positions that have moved up multiplefold to redeploy those gains into new positions; flagging the rebalancing approach in Montage Gold Corp. (TSX: MAU, OTCQX: MAUTF) as an example. Direct and Indirect Copper Exposure:  Dave has indirect exposure to copper exploration in some of the aforementioned precious metals companies like AbraSilver Resource and Thesis Gold & Silver, but also pointed out the big win he and his subscribers just realized in direct copper exploration success through Arizona Sonoran Copper Company Inc. (TSX:ASCU | OTCQX:ASCUF); which is currently being acquired by Hudbay Minerals Inc. (TSX: HBM, NYSE: HBM).   He is monitoring a few copper developer names on his watchlist for accretive entry points which he will communicate with his subscribers.   Click here to visit the Junior Miner Junky website to learn more about Dave's investment letter – https://www.juniorminerjunky.com/     For more market commentary & interview summaries, subscribe to our Substacks:   The KE Report: https://kereport.substack.com/ Shad's resource market commentary: https://excelsiorprosperity.substack.com/     Investment disclaimer: This content is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice, an offer, or a solicitation to buy or sell any security. Investing in equities and commodities involves risk, including the possible loss of principal. Do your own research and consult a licensed financial advisor before making any investment decisions. Guests and hosts may own shares in companies mentioned, and companies profiled may be sponsors of the KE Report.

Piše Miša Gams, bereta Maja Moll in Dejan Kaloper. Denis Vrbanec je pesnik, pisatelj in kantavtor mlajše generacije, rojene na prelomu 21. stoletja, predstavnik t. i. milenijcev, o katerih piše v svojem proznem prvencu. Po poklicu je športni pedagog, predlani je izdal pesniški prvenec Minevanja, napisal pa je tudi več kot 100 avtorskih komadov in izdal sedem avtorskih albumov. Glasbo ustvarja pod umetniškim psevdonimom Denis Chills, svoje izkušnje s kajtanjem in deskanjem, ki jih je pridobil med potovanjem po Španiji in Južni Afriki, pa deli z mladimi, ki jih v osnovni šoli poučuje športno vzgojo. Zato ne preseneča, da glavni junak v kratkem romanu Milenijec sanjari o potovanju v Južno Afriko, kjer naj bi med valovi iskal svojo svobodo, eksistencialno izpolnitev in odklop od monotonega vsakdana. Protagonist romana je Miloš, mladoletni odvisnik od ekranov, ki s pomočjo antidepresivov nadomešča eno odvisnost od druge. Mladost preživlja ob igranju videoigric, spremljanju družbenih omrežij in ogledovanju pornografije, zato izgublja stik z resničnostjo, njegov odnos s starši pa je omejen na nekajsekundno komunikacijo. Rojen je bil leta 1993, na repu t. i. milenijske dobe, in ne razume generacije staršev, ki so del življenja preživeli v socialistični Jugoslaviji. Po njegovem mnenju so “stoični, brez čustev, brez kakršnegakoli dvoma o svojem lažnem obstoju”. Ima se za izgubljeno generacijo, ki si ne more privoščiti niti dostojne službe niti najema bivališča, kaj šele nakupa nepremičnine, fizični stik s prijatelji pa postaja vse bolj nedosegljiv in virtualen: “Nič čudnega, da so milenijci tako imenovana “generacija Jaz”. Njihovi starši in stari starši so umirali v vojnah, oni pa umirajo za pristen stik, dotik, prijateljstvo in Big Maca s krompirčkom in kokakolo.” Zgodba se začne v čakalnici pri psihiatru dr. Zaplotniku, kjer se protagonistu podijo po glavi najrazličnejše misli, čas pa si krajša s pogovorom s simpatično vrstnico Klaro, ki je med deskanjem izgubila strica, njena mama pa je večkrat poskušala storiti samomor. Ko Miloš od brata Mitje prejme pismo, da se je po nesreči med deskanjem v Južni Afriki odločil odpotovati v Indijo, se tudi sam odpravi po bratovih stopinjah v afriško vasico Worcester, kjer večino dneva preživi v meditacijskem centru med poglabljanjem vase, vmes pa vsak prosti trenutek izrabi za uživanje na divjih valovih. Roman je razdeljen na štiri tematske sklope. V uvodnem delu pisatelj opisuje “zapor” milenijske duše, ki se zateka v odvisnost od ekranov, saj si ne upa na polno zaživeti v zunanjem svetu. Protagonist opisuje ekstatične občutke sreče med dopisovanjem s Klaro in fantazira o pobegu v deželo, kjer bi lahko na lastni koži preizkusil prave valove namesto dopaminskih navalov začasnega virtualnega zadovoljstva. Med drugim se sprašuje, kakšne vrednote in potrebe bodo postale del vsakdana milenijcev, če so njihovi možgani že zdaj zapolnjeni z dražljaji, ki jih ne morejo sproti predelati: “Ali bodo še znali slišati glasbo, ki so jo skladali njihovi predniki? Jih bo ganila Debussyjeva Mesečina – Claire de lune? Ali bodo poslušali samo še računalniško narejeno, ponavljajočo se, nečustveno, umetno glasbo?” In malo naprej nadaljuje: “Ali bodo pogledi na zaslone postali pomembnejši od iskrenega pogleda v oči? Bodo sploh sposobni razumeti, kaj pomeni ljubiti sočloveka? Ali bodo morali to poiskati po Googlu? Ali bodo v brskalnik vpisovali vprašanje “Kako nekoga ljubiti?”” Ker so posamezna poglavja romana Milenijec zasnovana kot izmeničen preplet dogajanja v Sloveniji in Južni Afriki, se morata bralec in bralka precej zbrati, da lahko sledita nenehnemu dramaturškemu preskakovanju, ki v četrtem sklopu doseže nenaden obrat in celotno zgodbo postavi povsem na glavo. Diagnozama depresije in anksioznosti se tako pridruži še diagnoza shizofrenije, ki poleg jemanja antidepresivov na bazi benzodiazepina terja še uporabo visokih odmerkov citaloprama, namenjenega zdravljenju panične in obsesivno-kompulzivne motnje. Čeprav protagonist po predoziranju z antidepresivi naveže z očetom veliko bolj pristen odnos, ki temelji na poglobljenem pogovoru, se izkaže, da psihiater ne opravi svojega dela – deloma zato, ker ima tudi sam probleme z odvisnostjo, deloma pa zato, ker ne dojame dometa, ki ga ima kompleksna patološka struktura njegovega varovanca. Vrbanec se sicer zelo resno in večplastno loteva problematike odvisnosti od sodobnih elektronskih naprav, vendar dramaturška struktura romana Milenijec zaradi pomanjkljivo razdelane zgodbe ves čas peša, zato tudi zaključek deluje precej nerealistično in privlečeno za lase. Zdi se, da je Vrbanec po eni strani skeptičen do tega, da bi bilo odvisnost mogoče pozdraviti tako, da bi ena razvada nadomestili drugo, po drugi strani pa je skeptičen tudi do dela psihiatrov, ki eksperimentirajo z antidepresivi, ne da bi se dovolj zavedali, da lahko povečana konzumacija pahne človeka v težko psihozo in samomor. Zanimivo je zaključno poglavje, v katerem se Miloševa zavest zaradi ponovnega predoziranja s tabletami počasi izklaplja kot zaslon računalnika, ki je razpet med 0 in 1, preskakujoč iz analogne zavesti v digitalizirano paradigmo – kot bi celoten svet postal privid entuziastičnega shizofrenika, ki že od rojstva živi v svojih fantazmah. Za konec lahko rečemo, da Vrbancu sicer manjka pisateljske kilometrine, vendar so njegove lucidne ideje o sodobni družbi hvaležno gradivo za morebitne bodoče literarne mojstrovine.

Piše Vid Bešter, bere Dejan Kaloper. Vsaka pesem v pesniški zbirki Tatjane Pregl Kobe Potem ima na razpolago dve strani. Na levi strani je pod naslovom v poševnem tisku zapisana trivrstičnica, ‒ nekakšen moto k daljši pesmi na desni strani. Vsaka daljša pesem je dolga natanko eno stran. Nekaj pesmi ima še oštevilčena nadaljevanja, ki pa so prav tako vsa dolga natanko eno stran. Ker pa imajo nekatere pesmi vendarle več besed kot druge, variira dolžina vrstice. Dolžina vrstice je torej očitno podrejena enakomerni dolžini pesmi: vsaka ima enaintrideset vrstic. Iz tega že lahko izpeljemo ugotovitev, da verz kot vsebinska in ritmična enota za zbirko Potem ni prav zelo pomemben. Kakor imajo vse pesmi enako postavitev na strani, tako so enakomerno urejene tudi v štiri dele in ti v celoto. V vsakem od štirih delov, ki so zasnovani na ohlapnih vsebinskih vezeh, je devet pesmi. Skupaj torej šestintrideset daljših pesmi, ki jih spremlja šestintrideset trivrstičnic, vse skupaj pa uvaja sedemitrideseta pesem, sestavljena iz štirih trivrstičnic ... Bralcu je ob tem redu, ki vlada v zbirki gotovo prijetno ‒ kot v lepo urejenem in obdelanem vrtu. Trivrstičnice so po vsebini in vlogi podobne haikuju, čeprav nimajo oblikovnih značilnosti te japonske pesemske zvrsti. Nekako nakazujejo razpoloženje ali nagib, s katerim se bere daljša pesem na nasprotni strani. Morda pa kažejo tudi na obljubo in pogled v trenutku, ko je bila pesem napisana. Pravzaprav so kot tiste semenske vrečice, ki jih nataknjene na paličice ali položene pod kamne puščamo ob gredicah, da ne pozabimo, kaj smo zasejali. Daljše pesmi v takšni družbi spominjajo na tisto japonsko literarno zvrst, ki haikuju pridruži kratko prozno besedilo ‒ impresijo ali dnevniški zapis, poln podob. Tudi pesmi v zbirki Potem nimajo močnega ritma, po retorični legi so bliže prozi kakor liriki, na vsebino pa pomembno vplivajo trenutni vtisi, misli in spomini. Njihova liričnost pa se skriva v toku podob, sestavljenem večinoma iz prostih asociacij. Podobe v pesmih zato težijo k abstrakciji, ki pa vendarle ne prevlada ‒ podobe še kažejo tako na zunanji kot na čustveni svet. Izmenjavanje metafore in abstraktnejše osvobojene asociativne podobe ustvarja napetost in gibanje. Zdaj prevzame pobudo veriga asociacij in pesem steče, skoraj zdrvi, drugič prevladata metafora in njen pomen, pa pesem stopi počasneje, opisuje in pripoveduje. Kljub temu pa od podob ni mogoče pričakovati preveč. Bralcu, ki bi rad preveč razumel, utegne na njih spodrsniti kot na spolzkem kamenju. Ni povsem jasno, ali so na teh mestih zakodirani kakšni skriti pomeni in kje iskati ključ do njih ..., če so nam sploh namenjeni. Bralcu bo bolje, če bo pesmi prebiral tako, da ga bodo asociacije nosile s sabo. A tudi svobodni polet domišljije na krilih asociacij znajo pesmi dokaj grobo prekiniti. Čeprav je podobam puščene veliko svobode, je pesnici sporočilnost vendarle pomembnejša in rada zategne vajeti. Tako so pesmi napete med podobami, ki so preabstraktne, da bi lahko razbrali njihovo sporočilo, in tistimi, ki so preveč nadzorovane, da bi sporočilo v njih bralci lahko izsanjali. Poleg bogato razbohotenih podob je za pesmi značilno skoraj deklarativno izjavljanje. Neposredno izrečena oziroma zabeležena opažanja, stališča, spomini, občutki se vrivajo med podobe ‒ skoraj kot nepovabljene misli. Morda z največjim učinkom v drugem delu Tiha polja. Tu v zbirki najbolj prevladujejo podobe narave, lahko bi dejali pogledi skozi razna okna. Narava je v zbirki Potem tudi sicer pomemben motiv in pogosto jedro, ki spodbudi nizanje podob. Govorka skuša v pesmih ubesediti in posredovati osupljivo lepoto, ki ji je priča. A se ji vmešajo misli na begunce, žrtve genocida, vojne in drugih družbenih krivic. In narava se svoji lepoti zazdi ravnodušna in brezčutna. Podoben proces vmešavanja tudi v drugih delih zbirke gradi tematska osišča. V prvem delu Vsi moji mrtvi se na primer v spomine na bližnje mešajo misli na sedanjost ‒ in nelagodje nad političnimi obeti, ki grozijo prihodnjim rodovom. V tem delu je mešanje registrov manj posrečeno in se približuje teznosti. Ta plast izjavljanja, ki se vmešava med podobe, je pogosto enoznačna in vsakdanja. V njih se nam govorka seveda najbolj razkrije. Pokaže svoj okus in gledišče: da so ji všeč določene slike in pesniki, da ima določena politična prepričanja, pripada določenemu rodu in naravo opazuje na določenih krajih. Drugače povedano: ima osebnost in ta je pravzaprav osrednja vsebina zbirke. “Jaz”, ki govori v pesmih, ni le abstraktna slovnična nujnost ‒ je subjekt, ki svet opazuje in se očitno čuti dolžno izreči in opredeliti. Sam se nam ponuja sklep, da je naloga teh pesmi, da beležijo pesničine občutljivosti. Pesmi v zbirki ne govorijo o svetu, kakršen je, pač pa nam poročajo o odzivih neke osebnosti. Ni tako pomemben razgled skozi okno, ampak tisto, kar govorka ob njem občuti. Zato ne govori o vojni, ampak o strahu pred vojno. In ne govori o beguncih, ampak o svojem sočutju. Najjasnejši primer tega so morebiti impresije ob slikah, ki prevladujejo v tretjem delu Angel. Tu je glas sicer najmanj oseben, a skuša z rabo asociacij in podob očitno ubesediti specifičen občutek in trenutek gledanja, ki je vendar toliko več od sporočila neke slike. Zbirka Tatjane Pregl Kobe Potem je po temeljnem odnosu do sveta precej impresionistična. Pesnica motri lastne odzive na dražljaje sveta tam zunaj ‒ ni nenavadno, da jo vleče k naravi. Kot naravnost pove v zadnjem delu Vpogled, v katerem se ukvarja s poetološkimi temami, jo najbolj zanima: “Kako najti besedo, ki ni le beseda? / Besedo, ki preseva moč skozi čutno zaznavo?” Bralec pa se, ko lista med gredicami zbirke Potem, počuti kot gost v tujem vrtu, kamor je zataval morda po naključju. Gotovo občuduje bohotne podobe, ki so na vrtu zasejane. Marsikaj najbrž razume, velikokrat najbrž kaj tudi zgreši … včasih začuti piš vetra s pejsaža, včasih pa se z nelagodjem prestopa ob pogovoru neznancev … Kako pa se bo po obisku počutil, pa je odvisno od tega, kako dobro se bo sporazumel z gostiteljico, ki svoj vrt razkazuje.

Obhajamo papeško nedeljo: Apostolski obiski svetega očeta v prvem letu vodenja Katoliške cerkve.Leon XIV. pri opoldanskem nagovoru: Ker nas ljubi, nas Gospod ne pušča samih v življenjskih preizkušnjah.Proces oblikovanja vladne koalicije pri nas se nadaljuje, javnost ga intenzivno spremlja.Plačna reforma javnega sektorja vse močneje obremenjuje javne finance, ekonomist Igor Mastén opozarja, da je Slovenija v času gospodarske rasti skoraj povsem izgubila fiskalni manevrski prostor.V prvem letošnjem četrtletju več insolventnih postopkov, gospodarstvo kljub temu z višjim dobičkom.Ob 150. obletnici rojstva Ivana Cankarja so se največjega slovenskega pisatelja in dramatika spomnili tudi v vrhniški župniji.Vreme: Jutri na zahodu plohe in nevihte, občasno se bodo razširile proti vzhodu.

Na dan zmage pa bo temu primeren tudi izbor knjige v današnjem Sobotnem branju. Volkuljin sin (Založba Goga) – knjigo sta napisala Anton Špacapan Vončina in Francesco Tomada, prevedel jo je Gašper Malej, saj je sprva izšla v italijanščini – se dogaja v 30-ih letih prejšnjega stoletja, ko se je nad obmejno vasico Čepovan na severnem Primorskem vse bolj zgrinjala senca fašizma. Ker gre za politično pravljico, pa ima knjiga v sebi tudi elemente magičnega realizma. Oddajo je pripravila Tina Lamovšek.

Balassa Krisztián karmester, zenei rendező, akivel az Art-Színtér új nagyszabású produkciójáról, a West Endtől a Broadwayig című zenés utazásról mesél. A Budapesti Kongresszusi Központban látható előadás egy estére London West Endjének és New York Broadway-jének világát hozza el Budapestre. Olyan legendás musicalek dalai szólalnak meg magyar nyelven, amelyek közül több itthon ritkán vagy egyáltalán nem kerül színpadra ebben a formában, az Oroszlánkirálytól az Aladdinon és a Herkulesen át az Addams Family és az Eastwicki boszorkányok világáig. Az Art-Színtér produkciójában kivételes szereposztás áll színpadra. Kardffy Aisha, Kerényi Miklós Máté, Szabó P. Szilveszter, Náray Erika, Kocsis Dénes, Serbán Attila, Nádasi Veronika, Vágó Zsuzsi, Szulák Andrea, Mészáros Árpád Zsolt, Janza Kata és Cseh Dávid Péter idézik meg a musicalirodalom nagy pillanatait, miközben a hangzásvilágot a Szolnoki Szimfonikus Zenekar emeli ünnepi méretűvé, Balassa Krisztián vezényletével. Beszélgetünk arról, mit jelent karmesterként egy ilyen sokszínű estét összefogni, hogyan lehet egymás mellé helyezni grandiózus musicalrészleteket, lírai szólódalokat és lendületes táncbetéteket úgy, hogy a közönség valóban egy nagy ívű utazás részese legyen. Szóba kerül a zenei rendezés felelőssége, a szimfonikus hangzás ereje, és az is, hogyan találkozik a színház, a koncertélmény, a koreográfia, a jelmez és a modern színpadtechnika egyetlen estén. A West Endtől a Broadwayig komplex színházi élmény, amelynek célja, hogy a közönség úgy érezze, egy este alatt bejárta a világ leghíresebb zenés színházait, miközben ki sem mozdult Budapestről. A Sláger FM-en minden este 22 órakor a kultúráé a főszerep S. Miller András az egyik oldalon, a másikon pedig a térség kiemelkedő színházi kulturális, zenei szcena résztvevői Egy óra Budapest és Pest megye aktuális kult történeteivel. Sláger KULT – A természetes emberi hangok műsora

Nežina in Lukova mama je vedela, da bosta razhod s partnerjem in selitev k staršem povzročila stiske, a jima je z odhodom iz nasilnega razmerja želela omogočiti vsaj mirnejše otroštvo. Upala je, da jim bo z rabljenimi materiali in veliko svojega dela iz še neizdelanega dela stare kmečke hiše nekako le uspelo ustvariti zelo majhen, a samo njihov dom. A nekaj let pozneje so sanje še daleč, še vedno vsi trije spijo na skupni postelji v sobi brez vrat, perilo in oblačila se drenjajo v ozki kurilnici, otroka šolske obveznosti opravljata kjer pač lahko. Mama z neizmerno težavo prosi za pomoč. Kljub temu včasih manjkata na plačljivih šolskih dejavnostih, pogosto je Luka tudi edini športnik, ki ga na tekmah s tribun mama ne more spodbujati. Ker kljub redni službi kdaj zmanjka še za veliko nujnejše stroške, kot je spremstvo otroka na tekmah zunaj domačega kraja. Tako, vse bolj brezupno stanje, pa že močno načenja mamino zdravje. Ki, nemočna doma, kot v posmeh usode v službi predano skrbi za boljše zdravje in lepša otroštva drugih otrok. Kako pomagati?  Najlažja pot je prek SMS-sporočil z gesloma BOTER5 ali BOTER10, poslanim na številko 1919, lahko pa poljuben znesek nakažete na poseben sklic, ki je pri Zvezi Anita Ogulin odprt samo zanje. Podatki: ZVEZA ANITA OGULIN IN ZPMPROLETARSKA CESTA 1, 1000 LJUBLJANA IBAN: SI56 0201 2002 0297 991 BIC: LJBASI2X KODA: CHAR NAMEN: LUKOVA IN NEŽINA ZGODBA SKLIC: SI00 744 Vsa sredstva bodo brez slehernih odbitkov ali provizij porabljena za boljše življenje njune družine. Kontaktni podatki programa Botrstvo: info@boter.si ali 0820 526 93 Kontaktni podatki Val 202: jana.vidic@rtvslo.si

Szilágyi Stefi volt a vendégünk, most éppen Budapestről. Ugyan a választási győzelem éjszakáját egy másnapi meló miatt átaludta, de azért eufórikus eredményvárásban volt része. Vietnámról megtudtuk tőle, hogy a közlekedés az ország leglátványosabb eleme, amihez más egzotikus helyeken szerzett élményekkel kapcsolódtunk.A külföldi szavazásról Lukács mesélt  Berlinből.   Állampolgári kötelességük mellett kulturális igényüket néhàny múzeum meglátogatásával elégítették ki. Latolgattuk, hogy börtönbe kerülnek-e a levitézlett politikusok, vagy kiderülhet-e, ki az a Zsolti bácsi, valamint szenteltünk néhány szót a magyar közoktatás jövőjének, múltjának és jelenének.Barcza Ági IzraelDerdák András FranciaországSzilágyi Stefánia MagyarországVarga Lukács NémetországMűsorvezető: Kerényi Tamás Egyesült királyságHangmérnök: Barcza Gergely

Victor Cantore, President and CEO of Amex Exploration Inc. (TSX.V: AMX) (OTCQX: AMXEF), joins me for an exclusive KER video update, with a visual overview of the Perron Gold Project located in Quebec, Canada. We review the constructive advantages to their site infrastructure, get an exploration update on their expanded land package, highlight the key metrics from the Phase 1 Feasibility Study, and outline the next key milestone as the move into a trial-mining bulk sample process.   Feasibility Phase 1 Highlights Released on March 13, 2026:   Gold production to average 147,000 oz per year over the 5 years of commercial Phase 1 production at an All in Sustaining Cost (“AISC”) of USD$910/oz Au. Projected Post-Tax IRR of 114.6% and Post-Tax NPV5 of CAD$1.13 billion generated from a Cumulative Undiscounted Post-Tax Cash Flow of CAD$1.44 billion at an assumed gold price USD$3,500/oz. The Phase 1 Feasibility Study evaluates an initial development scenario at Perron, building on the broader potential outlined in the September 2025 PEA, which indicated a potential mine life of approximately 17 years. Phase 1 mine development consists of two (2) years pre-production, followed by five (5) years of commercial mining and toll milling operations Executing a toll milling approach reduces risks and accelerates production schedule targeting revenue in 2028   The next key company milestone, before getting to this Phase 1 scenario outlined in the Feasibility Study, will be moving next into the development process for trial-mining of the high-grade Champagne Zone in a bulk sample, to commence the middle of 2027.    This bulk sample will accomplish some of the early-stage development slated for Phase 1 in advance (lowering the stated capex in the F.S.). The company is now permitted to proceed towards site and ramp development over the next year. The plan is then to mine this material for the bulk sample, and process ~40,000 tonnes via toll-milling at a nearby plant; which should result in production of around 20,000-23,000 ounces of gold. This bulk sample will be a learning experience in how the mining process, grade reconciliation, and metals recoveries compare to the economic studies in place; while also generating non-dilutive capital to assist with much of the capital needed for Phase 1 development.   The revenues generated from the bulk sample in 2027, then the 4-5 years of DSO toll-mining in Phase 1, will fund the exploration and development work that feeds into the Phase 2 studies.  Phase 2 will envision the move into a larger production scenario building a processing plant on site, from the robust revenues projected during Phase 1.   In addition to all the development slated for this year, the company is pressing forward with an aggressive 100,000 meter drill campaign, continuing to delineate and expand resources at the main Perron Project; while also beginning to explore on their expanded land package across the provincial border into Ontario.  The company has substantially increased their land holdings through a combination of staking claims and the 2 recent acquisitions of the Perron West and the Abbotsford/Hepburn properties.     If you have any questions for Victor regarding Amex Exploration, then please email them into me at Shad@kereport.com, and we'll get those addressed or covered in future interviews.   In full disclosure, Shad is a shareholder of Amex Exploration at the time of this recording, and may choose to buy or sell shares at any time.   Click here to follow the latest news from Amex Exploration   For more market commentary & interview summaries, subscribe to our Substacks:   The KE Report: https://kereport.substack.com/ Shad's resource market commentary: https://excelsiorprosperity.substack.com/     Investment disclaimer: This content is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice, an offer, or a solicitation to buy or sell any security. Investing in equities and commodities involves risk, including the possible loss of principal. Do your own research and consult a licensed financial advisor before making any investment decisions. Guests and hosts may own shares in companies mentioned, and companies profiled may be sponsors of the KE Report.

Mišo naju je pelal. Od Robija foter. Na eno najboljših 0:0 tekem v zgodovini NK Maribor. O, ja. Ko se je špricalo pouk (ko se je prek medijev prosilo učitelje, naj ne dajejo neopravičenih ur) in ko je bilo 20.10.1993 največ ludi na delovno sredo na kaki fuzbal tekmi pri nas. Ziher. Ob 14.30. Tekma, ki me spomni, zakaj imam in imamo tako radi fuzbal. In ta klub. Čeprav so nas potem pokradli gori v Nemčiji. ne, ni bil rdeči. O, ne. Bozgotov frajštos pa Lukićev rdeči. Vtetovirano v spomin. Kaj maš, kaj mata pa zdaj to, Jaša? Iskreno, to je bonus runda, ekstra epizoda. Takšnih bo zdaj več. Ta je odprta za vse, potem pa bodo prihajale tedensko za tiste, ki (bo)ste naročeni. Zic bo še vedno prosto dostopen vsem. Do konca sezone še zgurava in se vrževa na glavo. Zdaj se bom lotil Patreona oziroma platform za takšno prakso in naredil tako, da tisti, ki podpirate Ofsajd oziroma ga boste, boste take epizode dobivali za zraven. Kot bonus. Ker ... Zdaj ali nikoli, ne? Več povem sproti, najbolj na koncu, prosim prisluhnite. Najbolj pa me, prosim, zanima, kako se vam zdi ta(kšna) epizoda? Če ni okej, če je bedno, komot povejte. Ne bom jezen ;). Če bi še, če imate kakšne tekme, trenutke, če imate vprašanja, pa kar. Saj več povem v oddaji. Če vam znese, mi bo res ogromno pomenilo. Ker zdaj ali nikoli. Na glavo, ajde!

Milan Greiner že 55 let živi v Švici, oglaša se iz svoje vasi Oberdiessbach. Najprej je bil zaposlen kot šef gradbišča, potem pa spoznal švicarsko Heidi, s katero sta si ustvarila družino in odprla svoje podjetje. Pravi, da ima dve domovini, tudi zato ju v okviru slovenskega društva Kulturni most Švica–Slovenija vestno povezuje. Ker je pobudnik pobratenja občin Lützelflüh in Velike Lašče, bo 9. aprila 2026 v Velike Lašče pripeljal skoraj 50 Švicarjev. Pripoveduje o življenju v Oberdiessbachu, o čevapčičih, ki povezujejo narode, o zborovskem petju in planinarjenju.

Potem ko je Državna volilna komisija v torek tudi uradno potrdila izid volitev v državni zbor, bo jutri ustanovna seja državnega zbora, ki jo je sklicala predsednica republike Nataša Pirc Musar. Poslanke in poslanci bodo potrdili mandate, potem bo sledil ključni del seje, izvolitev predsednika ali predsednice državnega zbora. Ker ta na tajnem glasovanju potrebuje najmanj 46 glasov podpore, izvolitev že lahko pomeni, da se je oblikovala koalicija, ki bi lahko izvolila tudi predsednika vlade. Ali se je že oblikovala ustrezna politična večina, kje se lahko zaplete, kako bodo naprej stekli postopki za oblikovanje vlade? Kakšna je tokratna sestava državnega zbora in zakaj je ta vse bolj le podaljšek vlade? O vsem tem pred prvo sejo novega sklica parlamenta v tokratnem Studiu ob 17-ih. Gostje: dr. Janez Pogorelec, ustavni pravnik; dr. Gregor Virant, nekdanji predsednik državnega zbora; dr. Milan Brglez, nekdanji predsednik državnega zbora. Avtorica oddaje Jolanda Lebar.

Míg a Holdat kerülik, választási kampány hajrába érkezett Magyarország. Valószínűleg a leggyorsabban elévülő adásunk készült el, amiben kifejezzük  reményeinket, vágyainkat, félelmeinket, megérzéseinket.Drukkolunk a távolból, legyen változás, jöjjön egy átláthatóbb, szabadabb időszak! Derdák András FranciaországPajer Kristóf OlaszországVarga Lukács NémetországBarcza Ági IzraelMűsorvezető: Kerényi Tamás (UK)Hangmérnök: Barcza Gergely

Ker sta nas oba redna poslušalca opozorila, naj že enkrat nehamo skakati okoli vrele kaše in končno komentiramo pretekle volitve, moramo v javnem interesu to tudi storiti. Ne nazadnje smo po tem, ko so komentirali volitve tudi v glasbi po željah in kmetijskih nasvetih, ena zadnjih rubrik nacionalnega radia, ki tega še ni storila. Težava je namreč ta, da komentiranje volitev ni racionalna rabota. Ker stranke so pred volitvami zatrjevale, da bo po volitvah vse drugače, po volitvah pa je isto, kot je bilo pred njimi. Z drugimi besedami; če je razumni komentiral predvolilno dogajanje, ni nobene potrebe, da komentira povolilno dogajanje, ker je le to enako predvolilnemu. Ampak poskusimo … Kot smo videli, s klasičnimi metodami ne gre. Še najbolj ne gre z matematiko, ki je nacepljena na egotripe, napuh in omejen razum slovenske politične elite. Kakorkoli že seštevajo, nobena stran ne more do 46 glasov. Menda so poskusili tudi z umetno inteligenco, pa so sesuli server in so jih iz Silicijeve doline prosili, če tega ne bi več počeli. Tako smo pri nas ubrali povsem drugačno pot in poklicali na pomoč starodavno modrost, ki je skrita v bajeslovni tradiciji našega roda. Takole gre. »Živel je kmet. Imel je devetindvajset glasov in nekaj malega denarja. Odšel je na sejem, da si tam kupi nekaj dobrin, s katerimi bi Slovenijo popeljal do boljšega jutri. Tako je najprej nabavil volka, ki je imel osemindvajset glasov ter nepredvidljivo, v glavnem pa popadljivo nrav. Potem je kupil kozo, ki je imela devet glasov, devet življenj in troje vimen. Nato je kupil zeljno glavo. Zeljna glava je imela šest glasov, bila je levo usmerjena in rahlo nagnita. Z vsemi temi novimi nakupi, s katerimi je kmet poskušal izboljšati življenje sebi in Sloveniji, je prišel do desnega brega reke. Reka je bila precej nova, narasla in je imela šest glasov ter v glavnem ni imela pojma, v katero smer naj teče. Ob robu reke je ležal čoln. Rahlo je razpadal, užival je v vožnji na levi breg, drugače pa je bil soliden čoln s petimi glasovi. V čolnu je bilo teslo, oprostite veslo, prav tako s petimi glasovi, ki ni znalo drugega, kot mlatiti po reki. Ko je tako prišel na desni breg, je kmet uvidel problem. Vsega trojega ne bo mogel prepeljati, ker so imeli on, volk, koza in zeljna glava pretežke karakterje ter bi čoln potopili. Čoln je bil prešibek, reka predivja, teslo, pardon veslo, pa neuporabno. Tako je moral čez reko svoje nakupe popeljati posamezno. Enega po enega torej. Ampak kako? Če prepelje volka in pusti na desnem bregu kozo in zeljno glavo, bo koza pojedla zelje. Enako se zgodi, ko ju oba prepelje na levi breg. Prav tako ne more najprej prepeljati zelja ter pustiti na desnem bregu koze z volkom, ker bo volk požrl kozo; še bolj pa jo bo požrl na levem bregu, ker, kot je bilo znano, volkovi, kljub temu da so se tam rodili, na levem bregu povsem znorijo. Ko je kmet tako razmišljal, a se ni mogel domisliti rešitve, ker resnici na ljubo – kmet je bil bolj kratke pameti – se je na nebu pokazal stric iz ozadja in mu ponudil rešitev problema. Kmet naj prepelje na levi breg najprej kozo, nato prepelje zelje, ker zelja ne sme pustiti s kozo, vrne kozo na desni breg, kamor spada, pobere volka in se vrne nazaj po kozo. Torej opravi eno vožnjo več, oziroma naredi korak nazaj. Kmetu tako stric iz ozadja svetuje, kako naj sestavi koalicijo, a kmet ni pripravljen narediti koraka nazaj, oziroma opraviti ene vožnje več, ker je, kot rečeno, rahlo omejen, len in se mu ne ljubi. Zato nabaše v čoln vse troje in se poda na reko. S teslom, pardon, veslom, mlati po reki, ki teče, bog ve, v katero smer; koza začne gristi zelje, volk napade kozo, čoln se zamaje in potopi, reka pogoltne kozo, kmeta, volka in zelje, le teslo, pardon veslo, ostane na gladini. Z udeleženci te povesti se potopijo tudi vsi glasovi, zato je mati Demokracija našla novega kmeta, ki je šel ponovno na tržnico, in je ponovno, da bo njegovo življenje in življenje vseh Slovencev boljše, kupil kozo, volka in zeljno glavo.

Választás, de nem az, hanem önkormányzati. Az apropó pedig a Francia önkormányzati választás. Ennek kapcsán vettük végig, hol mennyire autonóm, vagy központosított az önkormányzatiság, hol hogyan zajlik maga a szavazás, kampány. Innen csak kis kitérőt tettünk az orosz olaj és az irodalmi Kossuth díj felé.Derdák András FranciaországVarga Lukács. NémetországBarcza Ági IzraelMűsorvezető: Kerényi Tamás Hangmérnök: Barcza Gergely

Dan po rednih prelomnih volitvah smo dobili informacijo, da bi bila lahko volilna udeležba še precej višja. Skoraj stoodstotna, ampak mnogi volivci niso uspeli na volišča, ker v avtomobilih niso imeli bencina, na črpalkah, pa ga je zmanjkalo. Mi starejši smo reagirali nagonsko. Pogledali smo na registrsko številko avtomobila, če je bila parna, smo se lahko odpeljali, ali pa smo v denarnici poiskali bencinski bon. Mlajši in bencinsko-krizno neizkušeni pa so bili zmedeni in jim zaradi tega ni uspelo oddati glasu.Glavni krivec naj bi bil Petrol, in sicer sta za odsotnost goriv na Petrolovih črpalkah – po mnenju obrekovalnic in bifejev – dva razloga … Prvi je, ker so lastniki Petrola frendi z Janezom Janšo in so malo zaprli pipice, da je lahko Janša po volitvah upravičeno požugal: »Ali je res država brez bencina, država, kot si jo želimo?« Druga verzija, sicer bolj verjetna, pa govori o tem, da petrolovci neradi prodajajo ceneje, če lahko počakajo kak dan in prodajajo dražje. Ker so vse to govorice, mi pa smo kot natančna in vestna redakcija, avantgarda raziskovalnega novinarstva, smo se podali v bleščeč Petrolov bencinski servis, da iz prve roke preverimo, kako stvari stojijo na terenu. Žal pa je naš reporter neuspešen pesnik srednje generacije. NA PETROLOVI ČRPALKI Na Petrolovi črpalki lahko kupiš:časopise, revije, izdelke za osebno higienomed njimi tudi brivsko peno;pa marmelade, pomade, vrtnice v celofanu incopate za mamoLe neosvinčenega bencina 95 ne. Na Petrolovi črpalki lahko kupiš:Srečke za loterijo, napovedi za športno stavo -ker tam imajo postavljenokompletno infrastrukturo za hazardersko zabavo.Potem lahko kupiš hrano za male živalihrano za vso družino,če bo večerja slavnostna, celokakovostno slovensko vino.Le stooktanskega bencina ne Na Petrolovi črpalki dobiš:pregrešno drago kavo, rogljiček, sendvič,sok, pico, krof,presto, žemljo, mleko, jogurt in kefir.Le dizla ne. Na Petrolovi črpalki lahko kupiš:karte za smučanje, vstopnice za koncert,viski, če si pozen na zabavo,čips, smoki infine male čokolade …Tam še vedno imajjo glasbene CD-jein erotične DVD-je.Le kurilnega olja ne. Obstaja pa še tretja možnost. Da je goriva po vsej državi zmanjkalo zaradi popolnega viharja na trgu energetike: najprej slovenske šparovne nature, ki je zaradi prihranka treh evrov pripravljena do onemoglosti stati v vrsti in napolniti vsako kozico v gospodinjstvu z bencinom, nato dementnih starcev, ki se nad puščavo igračkajo z raketami, in končno zaradi domačih politikov, ki rastejo in uspevajo samo v kriznih razmerah.

Turbopuffer came out of a reading app.In 2022, Simon was helping his friends at Readwise scale their infra for a highly requested feature: article recommendations and semantic search. Readwise was paying ~$5k/month for their relational database and vector search would cost ~$20k/month making the feature too expensive to ship. In 2023 after mulling over the problem from Readwise, Simon decided he wanted to “build a search engine” which became Turbopuffer.We discuss:• Simon's path: Denmark → Shopify infra for nearly a decade → “angel engineering” across startups like Readwise, Replicate, and Causal → turbopuffer almost accidentally becoming a company • The Readwise origin story: building an early recommendation engine right after the ChatGPT moment, seeing it work, then realizing it would cost ~$30k/month for a company spending ~$5k/month total on infra and getting obsessed with fixing that cost structure • Why turbopuffer is “a search engine for unstructured data”: Simon's belief that models can learn to reason, but can't compress the world's knowledge into a few terabytes of weights, so they need to connect to systems that hold truth in full fidelity • The three ingredients for building a great database company: a new workload, a new storage architecture, and the ability to eventually support every query plan customers will want on their data • The architecture bet behind turbopuffer: going all in on object storage and NVMe, avoiding a traditional consensus layer, and building around the cloud primitives that only became possible in the last few years • Why Simon hated operating Elasticsearch at Shopify: years of painful on-call experience shaped his obsession with simplicity, performance, and eliminating state spread across multiple systems • The Cursor story: launching turbopuffer as a scrappy side project, getting an email from Cursor the next day, flying out after a 4am call, and helping cut Cursor's costs by 95% while fixing their per-user economics • The Notion story: buying dark fiber, tuning TCP windows, and eating cross-cloud costs because Simon refused to compromise on architecture just to close a deal faster • Why AI changes the build-vs-buy equation: it's less about whether a company can build search infra internally, and more about whether they have time especially if an external team can feel like an extension of their own • Why RAG isn't dead: coding companies still rely heavily on search, and Simon sees hybrid retrieval semantic, text, regex, SQL-style patterns becoming more important, not less • How agentic workloads are changing search: the old pattern was one retrieval call up front; the new pattern is one agent firing many parallel queries at once, turning search into a highly concurrent tool call • Why turbopuffer is reducing query pricing: agentic systems are dramatically increasing query volume, and Simon expects retrieval infra to adapt to huge bursts of concurrent search rather than a small number of carefully chosen calls • The philosophy of “playing with open cards”: Simon's habit of being radically honest with investors, including telling Lachy Groom he'd return the money if turbopuffer didn't hit PMF by year-end • The “P99 engineer”: Simon's framework for building a talent-dense company, rejecting by default unless someone on the team feels strongly enough to fight for the candidate —Simon Hørup Eskildsen• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sirupsen• X: https://x.com/Sirupsen• https://sirupsen.com/aboutturbopuffer• https://turbopuffer.com/Full Video PodTimestamps00:00:00 The PMF promise to Lachy Groom00:00:25 Intro and Simon's background00:02:19 What turbopuffer actually is00:06:26 Shopify, Elasticsearch, and the pain behind the company00:10:07 The Readwise experiment that sparked turbopuffer00:12:00 The insight Simon couldn't stop thinking about00:17:00 S3 consistency, NVMe, and the architecture bet00:20:12 The Notion story: latency, dark fiber, and conviction00:25:03 Build vs. buy in the age of AI00:26:00 The Cursor story: early launch to breakout customer00:29:00 Why code search still matters00:32:00 Search in the age of agents00:34:22 Pricing turbopuffer in the AI era00:38:17 Why Simon chose Lachy Groom00:41:28 Becoming a founder on purpose00:44:00 The “P99 engineer” philosophy00:49:30 Bending software to your will00:51:13 The future of turbopuffer00:57:05 Simon's tea obsession00:59:03 Tea kits, X Live, and P99 LiveTranscriptSimon Hørup Eskildsen: I don't think I've said this publicly before, but I just called Lockey and was like, local Lockie. Like if this doesn't have PMF by the end of the year, like we'll just like return all the money to you. But it's just like, I don't really, we, Justine and I don't wanna work on this unless it's really working.So we want to give it the best shot this year and like we're really gonna go for it. We're gonna hire a bunch of people. We're just gonna be honest with everyone. Like when I don't know how to play a game, I just play with open cards. Lockey was the only person that didn't, that didn't freak out. He was like, I've never heard anyone say that before.Alessio: Hey everyone, welcome to the Leading Space podcast. This is Celesio Pando, Colonel Laz, and I'm joined by Swix, editor of Leading Space.swyx: Hello. Hello, uh, we're still, uh, recording in the Ker studio for the first time. Very excited. And today we are joined by Simon Eski. Of Turbo Farer welcome.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: Thank you so much for having me.swyx: Turbo Farer has like really gone on a huge tear, and I, I do have to mention that like you're one of, you're not my newest member of the Danish AHU Mafia, where like there's a lot of legendary programmers that have come out of it, like, uh, beyond Trotro, Rasmus, lado Berg and the V eight team and, and Google Maps team.Uh, you're mostly a Canadian now, but isn't that interesting? There's so many, so much like strong Danish presence.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: Yeah, I was writing a post, um, not that long ago about sort of the influences. So I grew up in Denmark, right? I left, I left when, when I was 18 to go to Canada to, to work at Shopify. Um, and so I, like, I've, I would still say that I feel more Danish than, than Canadian.This is also the weird accent. I can't say th because it, this is like, I don't, you know, my wife is also Canadian, um, and I think. I think like one of the things in, in Denmark is just like, there's just such a ruthless pragmatism and there's also a big focus on just aesthetics. Like, they're like very, people really care about like where, what things look like.Um, and like Canada has a lot of attributes, US has, has a lot of attributes, but I think there's been lots of the great things to carry. I don't know what's in the water in Ahu though. Um, and I don't know that I could be considered part of the Mafi mafia quite yet, uh, compared to the phenomenal individuals we just mentioned.Barra OV is also, uh, Danish Canadian. Okay. Yeah. I don't know where he lives now, but, and he's the PHP.swyx: Yeah. And obviously Toby German, but moved to Canada as well. Yes. Like this is like import that, uh, that, that is an interesting, um, talent move.Alessio: I think. I would love to get from you. Definition of Turbo puffer, because I think you could be a Vector db, which is maybe a bad word now in some circles, you could be a search engine.It's like, let, let's just start there and then we'll maybe run through the history of how you got to this point.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: For sure. Yeah. So Turbo Puffer is at this point in time, a search engine, right? We do full text search and we do vector search, and that's really what we're specialized in. If you're trying to do much more than that, like then this might not be the right place yet, but Turbo Buffer is all about search.The other way that I think about it is that we can take all of the world's knowledge, all of the exabytes and exabytes of data that there is, and we can use those tokens to train a model, but we can't compress all of that into a few terabytes of weights, right? Compress into a few terabytes of weights, how to reason with the world, how to make sense of the knowledge.But we have to somehow connect it to something externally that actually holds that like in full fidelity and truth. Um, and that's the thing that we intend to become. Right? That's like a very holier than now kind of phrasing, right? But being the search engine for unstructured, unstructured data is the focus of turbo puffer at this point in time.Alessio: And let's break down. So people might say, well, didn't Elasticsearch already do this? And then some other people might say, is this search on my data, is this like closer to rag than to like a xr, like a public search thing? Like how, how do you segment like the different types of search?Simon Hørup Eskildsen: The way that I generally think about this is like, there's a lot of database companies and I think if you wanna build a really big database company, sort of, you need a couple of ingredients to be in the air.We don't, which only happens roughly every 15 years. You need a new workload. You basically need the ambition that every single company on earth is gonna have data in your database. Multiple times you look at a company like Oracle, right? You will, like, I don't think you can find a company on earth with a digital presence that it not, doesn't somehow have some data in an Oracle database.Right? And I think at this point, that's also true for Snowflake and Databricks, right? 15 years later it's, or even more than that, there's not a company on earth that doesn't, in. Or directly is consuming Snowflake or, or Databricks or any of the big analytics databases. Um, and I think we're in that kind of moment now, right?I don't think you're gonna find a company over the next few years that doesn't directly or indirectly, um, have all their data available for, for search and connect it to ai. So you need that new workload, like you need something to be happening where there's a new workload that causes that to happen, and that new workload is connecting very large amounts of data to ai.The second thing you need. The second condition to build a big database company is that you need some new underlying change in the storage architecture that is not possible from the databases that have come before you. If you look at Snowflake and Databricks, right, commoditized, like massive fleet of HDDs, like that was not possible in it.It just wasn't in the air in the nineties, right? So you just didn't, we just didn't build these systems. S3 and and and so on was not around. And I think the architecture that is now possible that wasn't possible 15 years ago is to go all in on NVME SSDs. It requires a particular type of architecture for the database that.It's difficult to retrofit onto the databases that are already there, including the ones you just mentioned. The second thing is to go all in on OIC storage, more so than we could have done 15 years ago. Like we don't have a consensus layer, we don't really have anything. In fact, you could turn off all the servers that Turbo Buffer has, and we would not lose any data because we have all completely all in on OIC storage.And this means that our architecture is just so simple. So that's the second condition, right? First being a new workload. That means that every company on earth, either indirectly or directly, is using your database. Second being, there's some new storage architecture. That means that the, the companies that have come before you can do what you're doing.I think the third thing you need to do to build a big database company is that over time you have to implement more or less every Cory plan on the data. What that means is that you. You can't just get stuck in, like, this is the one thing that a database does. It has to be ever evolving because when someone has data in the database, they over time expect to be able to ask it more or less every question.So you have to do that to get the storage architecture to the limit of what, what it's capable of. Those are the three conditions.swyx: I just wanted to get a little bit of like the motivation, right? Like, so you left Shopify, you're like principal, engineer, infra guy. Um, you also head of kernel labs, uh, inside of Shopify, right?And then you consulted for read wise and that it kind of gave you that, that idea. I just wanted you to tell that story. Um, maybe I, you've told it before, but, uh, just introduce the, the. People to like the, the new workload, the sort of aha moment for turbo PufferSimon Hørup Eskildsen: For sure. So yeah, I spent almost a decade at Shopify.I was on the infrastructure team, um, from the fairly, fairly early days around 2013. Um, at the time it felt like it was growing so quickly and everything, all the metrics were, you know, doubling year on year compared to the, what companies are contending with today. It's very cute in growth. I feel like lot some companies are seeing that month over month.Um, of course. Shopify compound has been compounding for a very long time now, but I spent a decade doing that and the majority of that was just make sure the site is up today and make sure it's up a year from now. And a lot of that was really just the, um, you know, uh, the Kardashians would drive very, very large amounts of, of data to, to uh, to Shopify as they were rotating through all the merch and building out their businesses.And we just needed to make sure we could handle that. Right. And sometimes these were events, a million requests per second. And so, you know, we, we had our own data centers back in the day and we were moving to the cloud and there was so much sharding work and all of that that we were doing. So I spent a decade just scaling databases ‘cause that's fundamentally what's the most difficult thing to scale about these sites.The database that was the most difficult for me to scale during that time, and that was the most aggravating to be on call for, was elastic search. It was very, very difficult to deal with. And I saw a lot of projects that were just being held back in their ambition by using it.swyx: And I mean, self-hosted.Self-hosted. ‘causeSimon Hørup Eskildsen: it's, yeah, and it commercial, this is like 2015, right? So it's like a very particular vintage. Right. It's probably better at a lot of these things now. Um, it was difficult to contend with and I'm just like, I just think about it. It's an inverted index. It should be good at these kinds of queries and do all of this.And it was, we, we often couldn't get it to do exactly what we needed to do or basically get lucine to do, like expose lucine raw to, to, to what we needed to do. Um, so that was like. Just something that we did on the side and just panic scaled when we needed to, but not a particular focus of mine. So I left, and when I left, I, um, wasn't sure exactly what I wanted to do.I mean, it spent like a decade inside of the same company. I'd like grown up there. I started working there when I was 18.swyx: You only do Rails?Simon Hørup Eskildsen: Yeah. I mean, yeah. Rails. And he's a Rails guy. Uh, love Rails. So good. Um,Alessio: we all wish we could still work in Rails.swyx: I know know. I know, but some, I tried learning Ruby.It's just too much, like too many options to do the same thing. It's, that's my, I I know there's a, there's a way to do it.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: I love it. I don't know that I would use it now, like given cloud code and, and, and cursor and everything, but, um, um, but still it, like if I'm just sitting down and writing a teal code, that's how I think.But anyway, I left and I wasn't, I talked to a couple companies and I was like, I don't. I need to see a little bit more of the world here to know what I'm gonna like focus on next. Um, and so what I decided is like I was gonna, I called it like angel engineering, where I just hopped around in my friend's companies in three months increments and just helped them out with something.Right. And, and just vested a bit of equity and solved some interesting infrastructure problem. So I worked with a bunch of companies at the time, um, read Wise was one of them. Replicate was one of them. Um, causal, I dunno if you've tried this, it's like a, it's a spreadsheet engine Yeah. Where you can do distribution.They sold recently. Yeah. Um, we've been, we used that in fp and a at, um, at Turbo Puffer. Um, so a bunch of companies like this and it was super fun. And so we're the Chachi bt moment happened, I was with. With read Wise for a stint, we were preparing for the reader launch, right? Which is where you, you cue articles and read them later.And I was just getting their Postgres up to snuff, like, which basically boils down to tuning, auto vacuum. So I was doing that and then this happened and we were like, oh, maybe we should build a little recommendation engine and some features to try to hook in the lms. They were not that good yet, but it was clear there was something there.And so I built a small recommendation engine just, okay, let's take the articles that you've recently read, right? Like embed all the articles and then do recommendations. It was good enough that when I ran it on one of the co-founders of Rey's, like I found out that I got articles about, about having a child.I'm like, oh my God, I didn't, I, I didn't know that, that they were having a child. I wasn't sure what to do with that information, but the recommendation engine was good enough that it was suggesting articles, um, about that. And so there was, there was recommendations and uh, it actually worked really well.But this was a company that was spending maybe five grand a month in total on all their infrastructure and. When I did the napkin math on running the embeddings of all the articles, putting them into a vector index, putting it in prod, it's gonna be like 30 grand a month. That just wasn't tenable. Right?Like Read Wise is a proudly bootstrapped company and it's paying 30 grand for infrastructure for one feature versus five. It just wasn't tenable. So sort of in the bucket of this is useful, it's pretty good, but let us, let's return to it when the costs come down.swyx: Did you say it grows by feature? So for five to 30 is by the number of, like, what's the, what's the Scaling factor scale?It scales by the number of articles that you embed.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: It does, but what I meant by that is like five grand for like all of the other, like the Heroku, dinos, Postgres, like all the other, and this then storage is 30. Yeah. And then like 30 grand for one feature. Right. Which is like, what other articles are related to this one.Um, so it was just too much right to, to power everything. Their budget would've been maybe a few thousand dollars, which still would've been a lot. And so we put it in a bucket of, okay, we're gonna do that later. We'll wait, we will wait for the cost to come down. And that haunted me. I couldn't stop thinking about it.I was like, okay, there's clearly some latent demand here. If the cost had been a 10th, we would've shipped it and. This was really the only data point that I had. Right. I didn't, I, I didn't, I didn't go out and talk to anyone else. It was just so I started reading Right. I couldn't, I couldn't help myself.Like I didn't know what like a vector index is. I, I generally barely do about how to generate the vectors. There was a lot of hype about, this is a early 2023. There was a lot of hype about vector databases. There were raising a lot of money and it's like, I really didn't know anything about it. It's like, you know, trying these little models, fine tuning them.Like I was just trying to get sort of a lay of the land. So I just sat down. I have this. A GitHub repository called Napkin Math. And on napkin math, there's just, um, rows of like, oh, this is how much bandwidth. Like this is how many, you know, you can do 25 gigabytes per second on average to dram. You can do, you know, five gigabytes per second of rights to an SSD, blah blah.All of these numbers, right? And S3, how many you could do per, how much bandwidth can you drive per connection? I was just sitting down, I was like, why hasn't anyone build a database where you just put everything on O storage and then you puff it into NVME when you use the data and you puff it into dram if you're, if you're querying it alive, it's just like, this seems fairly obvious and you, the only real downside to that is that if you go all in on o storage, every right will take a couple hundred milliseconds of latency, but from there it's really all upside, right?You do the first go, it takes half a second. And it sort of occurred to me as like, well. The architecture is really good for that. It's really good for AB storage, it's really good for nvm ESSD. It's, well, you just couldn't have done that 10 years ago. Back to what we were talking about before. You really have to build a database where you have as few round trips as possible, right?This is how CPUs work today. It's how NVM E SSDs work. It's how as, um, as three works that you want to have a very large amount of outstanding requests, right? Like basically go to S3, do like that thousand requests to ask for data in one round trip. Wait for that. Get that, like, make a new decision. Do it again, and try to do that maybe a maximum of three times.But no databases were designed that way within NVME as is ds. You can drive like within, you know, within a very low multiple of DRAM bandwidth if you use it that way. And same with S3, right? You can fully max out the network card, which generally is not maxed out. You get very, like, very, very good bandwidth.And, but no one had built a database like that. So I was like, okay, well can't you just, you know, take all the vectors right? And plot them in the proverbial coordinate system. Get the clusters, put a file on S3 called clusters, do json, and then put another file for every cluster, you know, cluster one, do js O cluster two, do js ON you know that like it's two round trips, right?So you get the clusters, you find the closest clusters, and then you download the cluster files like the, the closest end. And you could do this in two round trips.swyx: You were nearest neighbors locally.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: Yes. Yes. And then, and you would build this, this file, right? It's just like ultra simplistic, but it's not a far shot from what the first version of Turbo Buffer was.Why hasn't anyone done thatAlessio: in that moment? From a workload perspective, you're thinking this is gonna be like a read heavy thing because they're doing recommend. Like is the fact that like writes are so expensive now? Oh, with ai you're actually not writing that much.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: At that point I hadn't really thought too much about, well no actually it was always clear to me that there was gonna be a lot of rights because at Shopify, the search clusters were doing, you know, I don't know, tens or hundreds of crew QPS, right?‘cause you just have to have a human sit and type in. But we did, you know, I don't know how many updates there were per second. I'm sure it was in the millions, right into the cluster. So I always knew there was like a 10 to 100 ratio on the read write. In the read wise use case. It's, um, even, even in the read wise use case, there'd probably be a lot fewer reads than writes, right?There's just a lot of churn on the amount of stuff that was going through versus the amount of queries. Um, I wasn't thinking too much about that. I was mostly just thinking about what's the fundamentally cheapest way to build a database in the cloud today using the primitives that you have available.And this is it, right? You just, now you have one machine and you know, let's say you have a terabyte of data in S3, you paid the $200 a month for that, and then maybe five to 10% of that data and needs to be an NV ME SSDs and less than that in dram. Well. You're paying very, very little to inflate the data.swyx: By the way, when you say no one else has done that, uh, would you consider Neon, uh, to be on a similar path in terms of being sort of S3 first and, uh, separating the compute and storage?Simon Hørup Eskildsen: Yeah, I think what I meant with that is, uh, just build a completely new database. I don't know if we were the first, like it was very much, it was, I mean, I, I hadn't, I just looked at the napkin math and was like, this seems really obvious.So I'm sure like a hundred people came up with it at the same time. Like the light bulb and every invention ever. Right. It was just in the air. I think Neon Neon was, was first to it. And they're trying, they're retrofitted onto Postgres, right? And then they built this whole architecture where you have, you have it in memory and then you sort of.You know, m map back to S3. And I think that was very novel at the time to do it for, for all LTP, but I hadn't seen a database that was truly all in, right. Not retrofitting it. The database felt built purely for this no consensus layer. Even using compare and swap on optic storage to do consensus. I hadn't seen anyone go that all in.And I, I mean, there, there, I'm sure there was someone that did that before us. I don't know. I was just looking at the napkin mathswyx: and, and when you say consensus layer, uh, are you strongly relying on S3 Strong consistency? You are. Okay.SoSimon Hørup Eskildsen: that is your consensus layer. It, it is the consistency layer. And I think also, like, this is something that most people don't realize, but S3 only became consistent in December of 2020.swyx: I remember this coming out during COVID and like people were like, oh, like, it was like, uh, it was just like a free upgrade.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: Yeah.swyx: They were just, they just announced it. We saw consistency guys and like, okay, cool.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: And I'm sure that they just, they probably had it in prod for a while and they're just like, it's done right.And people were like, okay, cool. But. That's a big moment, right? Like nv, ME SSDs, were also not in the cloud until around 2017, right? So you just sort of had like 2017 nv, ME SSDs, and people were like, okay, cool. There's like one skew that does this, whatever, right? Takes a few years. And then the second thing is like S3 becomes consistent in 2020.So now it means you don't have to have this like big foundation DB or like zookeeper or whatever sitting there contending with the keys, which is how. You know, that's what Snowflake and others have do so muchswyx: for goneSimon Hørup Eskildsen: Exactly. Just gone. Right? And so just push to the, you know, whatever, how many hundreds of people they have working on S3 solved and then compare and swap was not in S3 at this point in time,swyx: by the way.Uh, I don't know what that is, so maybe you wanna explain. Yes. Yeah.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: Yes. So, um, what Compare and swap is, is basically, you can imagine that if you have a database, it might be really nice to have a file called metadata json. And metadata JSON could say things like, Hey, these keys are here and this file means that, and there's lots of metadata that you have to operate in the database, right?But that's the simplest way to do it. So now you have might, you might have a lot of servers that wanna change the metadata. They might have written a file and want the metadata to contain that file. But you have a hundred nodes that are trying to contend with this metadata that JSON well, what compare and Swap allows you to do is basically just you download the file, you make the modifications, and then you write it only if it hasn't changed.While you did the modification and if not you retry. Right? Should just have this retry loops. Now you can imagine if you have a hundred nodes doing that, it's gonna be really slow, but it will converge over time. That primitive was not available in S3. It wasn't available in S3 until late 2024, but it was available in GCP.The real story of this is certainly not that I sat down and like bake brained it. I was like, okay, we're gonna start on GCS S3 is gonna get it later. Like it was really not that we started, we got really lucky, like we started on GCP and we started on GCP because tur um, Shopify ran on GCP. And so that was the platform I was most available with.Right. Um, and I knew the Canadian team there ‘cause I'd worked with them at Shopify and so it was natural for us to start there. And so when we started building the database, we're like, oh yeah, we have to build a, we really thought we had to build a consensus layer, like have a zookeeper or something to do this.But then we discovered the compare and swap. It's like, oh, we can kick the can. Like we'll just do metadata r json and just, it's fine. It's probably fine. Um, and we just kept kicking the can until we had very, very strong conviction in the idea. Um, and then we kind of just hinged the company on the fact that S3 probably was gonna get this, it started getting really painful in like mid 2024.‘cause we were closing deals with, um, um, notion actually that was running in AWS and we're like, trust us. You, you really want us to run this in GCP? And they're like, no, I don't know about that. Like, we're running everything in AWS and the latency across the cloud were so big and we had so much conviction that we bought like, you know, dark fiber between the AWS regions in, in Oregon, like in the InterExchange and GCP is like, we've never seen a startup like do like, what's going on here?And we're just like, no, we don't wanna do this. We were tuning like TCP windows, like everything to get the latency down ‘cause we had so high conviction in not doing like a, a metadata layer on S3. So those were the three conditions, right? Compare and swap. To do metadata, which wasn't in S3 until late 2024 S3 being consistent, which didn't happen until December, 2020.Uh, 2020. And then NVMe ssd, which didn't end in the cloud until 2017.swyx: I mean, in some ways, like a very big like cloud success story that like you were able to like, uh, put this all together, but also doing things like doing, uh, bind our favor. That that actually is something I've never heard.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: I mean, it's very common when you're a big company, right?You're like connecting your own like data center or whatever. But it's like, it was uniquely just a pain with notion because the, um, the org, like most of the, like if you're buying in Ashburn, Virginia, right? Like US East, the Google, like the GCP and, and AWS data centers are like within a millisecond on, on each other, on the public exchanges.But in Oregon uniquely, the GCP data center sits like a couple hundred kilometers, like east of Portland and the AWS region sits in Portland, but the network exchange they go through is through Seattle. So it's like a full, like 14 milliseconds or something like that. And so anyway, yeah. It's, it's, so we were like, okay, we can't, we have to go through an exchange in Portland.Yeah. Andswyx: you'd rather do this than like run your zookeeper and likeSimon Hørup Eskildsen: Yes. Way rather. It doesn't have state, I don't want state and two systems. Um, and I think all that is just informed by Justine, my co-founder and I had just been on call for so long. And the worst outages are the ones where you have state in multiple places that's not syncing up.So it really came from, from a a, like just a, a very pure source of pain, of just imagining what we would be Okay. Being woken up at 3:00 AM about and having something in zookeeper was not one of them.swyx: You, you're talking to like a notion or something. Do they care or do they just, theySimon Hørup Eskildsen: just, they care about latency.swyx: They latency cost. That's it.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: They just cared about latency. Right. And we just absorbed the cost. We're just like, we have high conviction in this. At some point we can move them to AWS. Right. And so we just, we, we'll buy the fiber, it doesn't matter. Right. Um, and it's like $5,000. Usually when you buy fiber, you buy like multiple lines.And we're like, we can only afford one, but we will just test it that when it goes over the public internet, it's like super smooth. And so we did a lot of, anyway, it's, yeah, it was, that's cool.Alessio: You can imagine talking to the GCP rep and it's like, no, we're gonna buy, because we know we're gonna turn, we're gonna turn from you guys and go to AWS in like six months.But in the meantime we'll do this. It'sSimon Hørup Eskildsen: a, I mean, like they, you know, this workload still runs on GCP for what it's worth. Right? ‘cause it's so, it was just, it was so reliable. So it was never about moving off GCP, it was just about honesty. It was just about giving notion the latency that they deserved.Right. Um, and we didn't want ‘em to have to care about any of this. We also, they were like, oh, egress is gonna be bad. It was like, okay, screw it. Like we're just gonna like vvc, VPC peer with you and AWS we'll eat the cost. Yeah. Whatever needs to be done.Alessio: And what were the actual workloads? Because I think when you think about ai, it's like 14 milliseconds.It's like really doesn't really matter in the scheme of like a model generation.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: Yeah. We were told the latency, right. That we had to beat. Oh, right. So, so we're just looking at the traces. Right. And then sort of like hand draw, like, you know, kind of like looking at the trace and then thinking what are the other extensions of the trace?Right. And there's a lot more to it because it's also when you have, if you have 14 versus seven milliseconds, right. You can fit in another round trip. So we had to tune TCP to try to send as much data in every round trip, prewarm all the connections. And there was, there's a lot of things that compound from having these kinds of round trips, but in the grand scheme it was just like, well, we have to beat the latency of whatever we're up against.swyx: Which is like they, I mean, notion is a database company. They could have done this themselves. They, they do lots of database engineering themselves. How do you even get in the door? Like Yeah, just like talk through that kind of.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: Last time I was in San Francisco, I was talking to one of the engineers actually, who, who was one of our champions, um, at, AT Notion.And they were, they were just trying to make sure that the, you know, per user cost matched the economics that they needed. You know, Uhhuh like, it's like the way I think about, it's like I have to earn a return on whatever the clouds charge me and then my customers have to earn a return on that. And it's like very simple, right?And so there has to be gross margin all the way up and that's how you build the product. And so then our customers have to make the right set of trade off the turbo Puffer makes, and if they're happy with that, that's great.swyx: Do you feel like you're competing with build internally versus buy or buy versus buy?Simon Hørup Eskildsen: Yeah, so, sorry, this was all to build up to your question. So one of the notion engineers told me that they'd sat and probably on a napkin, like drawn out like, why hasn't anyone built this? And then they saw terrible. It was like, well, it literally that. So, and I think AI has also changed the buy versus build equation in terms of, it's not really about can we build it, it's about do we have time to build it?I think they like, I think they felt like, okay, if this is a team that can do that and they, they feel enough like an extension of our team, well then we can go a lot faster, which would be very, very good for them. And I mean, they put us through the, through the test, right? Like we had some very, very long nights to to, to do that POC.And they were really our biggest, our second big customer off the cursor, which also was a lot of late nights. Right.swyx: Yeah. That, I mean, should we go into that story? The, the, the sort of Chris's story, like a lot, um, they credit you a lot for. Working very closely with them. So I just wanna hear, I've heard this, uh, story from Sole's point of view, but like, I'm curious what, what it looks like from your side.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: I actually haven't heard it from Sole's point of view, so maybe you can now cross reference it. The way that I remember it was that, um, the day after we launched, which was just, you know, I'd worked the whole summer on, on the first version. Justine wasn't part of it yet. ‘cause I just, I didn't tell anyone that summer that I was working on this.I was just locked in on building it because it's very easy otherwise to confuse talking about something to actually doing it. And so I was just like, I'm not gonna do that. I'm just gonna do the thing. I launched it and at this point turbo puffer is like a rust binary running on a single eight core machine in a T Marks instance.And me deploying it was like looking at the request log and then like command seeing it or like control seeing it to just like, okay, there's no request. Let's upgrade the binary. Like it was like literally the, the, the, the scrappiest thing. You could imagine it was on purpose because just like at Shopify, we did that all the time.Like, we like move, like we ran things in tux all the time to begin with. Before something had like, at least the inkling of PMF, it was like, okay, is anyone gonna hear about this? Um, and one of the cursor co-founders Arvid reached out and he just, you know, the, the cursor team are like all I-O-I-I-M-O like, um, contenders, right?So they just speak in bullet points and, and facts. It was like this amazing email exchange just of, this is how many QPS we have, this is what we're paying, this is where we're going, blah, blah, blah. And so we're just conversing in bullet points. And I tried to get a call with them a few times, but they were, so, they were like really writing the PMF bowl here, just like late 2023.And one time Swally emails me at like five. What was it like 4:00 AM Pacific time saying like, Hey, are you open for a call now? And I'm on the East coast and I, it was like 7:00 AM I was like, yeah, great, sure, whatever. Um, and we just started talking and something. Then I didn't know anything about sales.It was something that just comp compelled me. I have to go see this team. Like, there's something here. So I, I went to San Francisco and I went to their office and the way that I remember it is that Postgres was down when I showed up at the office. Did SW tell you this? No. Okay. So Postgres was down and so it's like they were distracting with that.And I was trying my best to see if I could, if I could help in any way. Like I knew a little bit about databases back to tuning, auto vacuum. It was like, I think you have to tune out a vacuum. Um, and so we, we talked about that and then, um, that evening just talked about like what would it look like, what would it look like to work with us?And I just said. Look like we're all in, like we will just do what we'll do whatever, whatever you tell us, right? They migrated everything over the next like week or two, and we reduced their cost by 95%, which I think like kind of fixed their per user economics. Um, and it solved a lot of other things. And we were just, Justine, this is also when I asked Justine to come on as my co-founder, she was the best engineer, um, that I ever worked with at Shopify.She lived two blocks away and we were just, okay, we're just gonna get this done. Um, and we did, and so we helped them migrate and we just worked like hell over the next like month or two to make sure that we were never an issue. And that was, that was the cursor story. Yeah.swyx: And, and is code a different workload than normal text?I, I don't know. Is is it just text? Is it the same thing?Simon Hørup Eskildsen: Yeah, so cursor's workload is basically, they, um, they will embed the entire code base, right? So they, they will like chunk it up in whatever they would, they do. They have their own embedding model, um, which they've been public about. Um, and they find that on, on, on their evals.It. There's one of their evals where it's like a 25% improvement on a very particular workload. They have a bunch of blog posts about it. Um, I think it works best on larger code basis, but they've trained their own embedding model to do this. Um, and so you'll see it if you use the cursor agent, it will do searches.And they've also been public around, um, how they've, I think they post trained their model to be very good at semantic search as well. Um, and that's, that's how they use it. And so it's very good at, like, can you find me on the code that's similar to this, or code that does this? And just in, in this queries, they also use GR to supplement it.swyx: Yeah.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: Um, of courseswyx: it's been a big topic of discussion like, is rag dead because gr you know,Simon Hørup Eskildsen: and I mean like, I just, we, we see lots of demand from the coding company to ethicsswyx: search in every part. Yes.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: Uh, we, we, we see demand. And so, I mean, I'm. I like case studies. I don't like, like just doing like thought pieces on this is where it's going.And like trying to be all macroeconomic about ai, that's has turned out to be a giant waste of time because no one can really predict any of this. So I just collect case studies and I mean, cursor has done a great job talking about what they're doing and I hope some of the other coding labs that use Turbo Puffer will do the same.Um, but it does seem to make a difference for particular queries. Um, I mean we can also do text, we can also do RegX, but I should also say that cursors like security posture into Tur Puffer is exceptional, right? They have their own embedding model, which makes it very difficult to reverse engineer. They obfuscate the file paths.They like you. It's very difficult to learn anything about a code base by looking at it. And the other thing they do too is that for their customers, they encrypt it with their encryption keys in turbo puffer's bucket. Um, so it's, it's, it's really, really well designed.swyx: And so this is like extra stuff they did to work with you because you are not part of Cursor.Exactly like, and this is just best practice when working in any database, not just you guys. Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. I think for me, like the, the, the learning is kind of like you, like all workloads are hybrid. Like, you know, uh, like you, you want the semantic, you want the text, you want the RegX, you want sql.I dunno. Um, but like, it's silly to like be all in on like one particularly query pattern.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: I think, like I really like the way that, um, um, that swally at cursor talks about it, which is, um, I'm gonna butcher it here. Um, and you know, I'm a, I'm a database scalability person. I'm not a, I, I dunno anything about training models other than, um, what the internet tells me and what.The way he describes is that this is just like cash compute, right? It's like you have a point in time where you're looking at some particular context and focused on some chunk and you say, this is the layer of the neural net at this point in time. That seems fundamentally really useful to do cash compute like that.And, um, how the value of that will change over time. I'm, I'm not sure, but there seems to be a lot of value in that.Alessio: Maybe talk a bit about the evolution of the workload, because even like search, like maybe two years ago it was like one search at the start of like an LLM query to build the context. Now you have a gentech search, however you wanna call it, where like the model is both writing and changing the code and it's searching it again later.Yeah. What are maybe some of the new types of workloads or like changes you've had to make to your architecture for it?Simon Hørup Eskildsen: I think you're right. When I think of rag, I think of, Hey, there's an 8,000 token, uh, context window and you better make it count. Um, and search was a way to do that now. Everything is moving towards the, just let the agent do its thing.Right? And so back to the thing before, right? The LLM is very good at reasoning with the data, and so we're just the tool call, right? And that's increasingly what we see our customers doing. Um, what we're seeing more demand from, from our customers now is to do a lot of concurrency, right? Like Notion does a ridiculous amount of queries in every round trip just because they can't.And I'm also now, when I use the cursor agent, I also see them doing more concurrency than I've ever seen before. So a bit similar to how we designed a database to drive as much concurrency in every round trip as possible. That's also what the agents are doing. So that's new. It means just an enormous amount of queries all at once to the dataset while it's warm in as few turns as possible.swyx: Can I clarify one thing on that?Simon Hørup Eskildsen: Yes.swyx: Is it, are they batching multiple users or one user is driving multiple,Simon Hørup Eskildsen: one user driving multiple, one agent driving.swyx: It's parallel searching a bunch of things.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: Exactly.swyx: Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So yeah, the clinician also did, did this for the fast context thing, like eight parallel at once.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: Yes.swyx: And, and like an interesting problem is, well, how do you make sure you have enough diversity so you're not making the the same request eight times?Simon Hørup Eskildsen: And I think like that's probably also where the hybrid comes in, where. That's another way to diversify. It's a completely different way to, to do the search.That's a big change, right? So before it was really just like one call and then, you know, the LLM took however many seconds to return, but now we just see an enormous amount of queries. So the, um, we just see more queries. So we've like tried to reduce query, we've reduced query pricing. Um, this is probably the first time actually I'm saying that, but the query pricing is being reduced, like five x.Um, and we'll probably try to reduce it even more to accommodate some of these workloads of just doing very large amounts of queries. Um, that's one thing that's changed. I think the right, the right ratio is still very high, right? Like there's still a, an enormous amount of rights per read, but we're starting probably to see that change if people really lean into this pattern.Alessio: Can we talk a little bit about the pricing? I'm curious, uh, because traditionally a database would charge on storage, but now you have the token generation that is so expensive, where like the actual. Value of like a good search query is like much higher because they're like saving inference time down the line.How do you structure that as like, what are people receptive to on the other side too?Simon Hørup Eskildsen: Yeah. I, the, the turbo puffer pricing in the beginning was just very simple. The pricing on these on for search engines before Turbo Puffer was very server full, right? It was like, here's the vm, here's the per hour cost, right?Great. And I just sat down with like a piece of paper and said like, if Turbo Puffer was like really good, this is probably what it would cost with a little bit of margin. And that was the first pricing of Turbo Puffer. And I just like sat down and I was like, okay, like this is like probably the storage amp, but whenever on a piece of paper I, it was vibe pricing.It was very vibe price, and I got it wrong. Oh. Um, well I didn't get it wrong, but like Turbo Puffer wasn't at the first principle pricing, right? So when Cursor came on Turbo Puffer, it was like. Like, I didn't know any VCs. I didn't know, like I was just like, I don't know, I didn't know anything about raising money or anything like that.I just saw that my GCP bill was, was high, was a lot higher than the cursor bill. So Justine and I was just like, well, we have to optimize it. Um, and I mean, to the chagrin now of, of it, of, of the VCs, it now means that we're profitable because we've had so much pricing pressure in the beginning. Because it was running on my credit card and Justine and I had spent like, like tens of thousands of dollars on like compute bills and like spinning off the company and like very like, like bad Canadian lawyers and like things like to like get all of this done because we just like, we didn't know.Right. If you're like steeped in San Francisco, you're just like, you just know. Okay. Like you go out, raise a pre-seed round. I, I never heard a word pre-seed at this point in time.swyx: When you had Cursor, you had Notion you, you had no funding.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: Um, with Cursor we had no funding. Yeah. Um, by the time we had Notion Locke was, Locke was here.Yeah. So it was really just, we vibe priced it 100% from first Principles, but it wasn't, it, it was not performing at first principles, so we just did everything we could to optimize it in the beginning for that, so that at least we could have like a 5% margin or something. So I wasn't freaking out because Cursor's bill was also going like this as they were growing.And so my liability and my credit limit was like actively like calling my bank. It was like, I need a bigger credit. Like it was, yeah. Anyway, that was the beginning. Yeah. But the pricing was, yeah, like storage rights and query. Right. And the, the pricing we have today is basically just that pricing with duct tape and spit to try to approach like, you know, like a, as a margin on the physical underlying hardware.And we're doing this year, you're gonna see more and more pricing changes from us. Yeah.swyx: And like is how much does stuff like VVC peering matter because you're working in AWS land where egress is charged and all that, you know.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: We probably don't like, we have like an enterprise plan that just has like a base fee because we haven't had time to figure out SKU pricing for all of this.Um, but I mean, yeah, you can run turbo puffer either in SaaS, right? That's what Cursor does. You can run it in a single tenant cluster. So it's just you. That's what Notion does. And then you can run it in, in, in BYOC where everything is inside the customer's VPC, that's what an for example, philanthropic does.swyx: What I'm hearing is that this is probably the best CRO job for somebody who can come in and,Simon Hørup Eskildsen: I mean,swyx: help you with this.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: Um, like Turbo Puffer hired, like, I don't know what, what number this was, but we had a full-time CFO as like the 12th hire or something at Turbo Puffer, um, I think I hear are a lot of comp.I don't know how they do it. Like they have a hundred employees and not a CFO. It's like having a CFO is like a runningswyx: business man. Like, you know,Simon Hørup Eskildsen: it's so good. Yeah, like money Mike, like he just, you know, just handles the money and a lot of the business stuff and so he came in and just hopped with a lot of the operational side of the business.So like C-O-O-C-F-O, like somewhere in between.swyx: Just as quick mention of Lucky, just ‘cause I'm curious, I've met Lock and like, he's obviously a very good investor and now on physical intelligence, um, I call it generalist super angel, right? He invests in everything. Um, and I always wonder like, you know, is there something appealing about focusing on developer tooling, focusing on databases, going like, I've invested for 10 years in databases versus being like a lock where he can maybe like connect you to all the customers that you need.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: This is an excellent question. No, no one's asked me this. Um, why lockey? Because. There was a couple of people that we were talking to at the time and when we were raising, we were almost a little, we were like a bit distressed because one of our, one of our peers had just launched something that was very similar to Turbo Puffer.And someone just gave me the advice at the time of just choose the person where you just feel like you can just pick up the phone and not prepare anything. And just be completely honest, and I don't think I've said this publicly before, but I just called Lockey and was like local Lockie. Like if this doesn't have PMF by the end of the year, like we'll just like return all the money to you.But it's just like, I don't really, we, Justine and I don't wanna work on this unless it's really working. So we want to give it the best shot this year and like we're really gonna go for it. We're gonna hire a bunch of people and we're just gonna be honest with everyone. Like when I don't know how to play a game, I just play with open cards and.Lockey was the only person that didn't, that didn't freak out. He was like, I've never heard anyone say that before. As I said, I didn't even know what a seed or pre-seed round was like before, probably even at this time. So I was just like very honest with him. And I asked him like, Lockie, have you ever have, have you ever invested in database company?He was just like, no. And at the time I was like, am I dumb? Like, but I think there was something that just like really drew me to Lockie. He is so authentic, so honest, like, and there was something just like, I just felt like I could just play like, just say everything openly. And that was, that was, I think that that was like a perfect match at the time, and, and, and honestly still is.He was just like, okay, that's great. This is like the most honest, ridiculous thing I've ever heard anyone say to me. But like that, like that, whyswyx: is this ridiculous? Say competitor launch, this may not work out. It wasSimon Hørup Eskildsen: more just like. If this doesn't work out, I'm gonna close up shop by the end of the mo the year, right?Like it was, I don't know, maybe it's common. I, I don't know. He told me it was uncommon. I don't know. Um, that's why we chose him and he'd been phenomenal. The other people were talking at the, at the time were database experts. Like they, you know, knew a lot about databases and Locke didn't, this turned out to be a phenomenal asset.Right. I like Justine and I know a lot about databases. The people that we hire know a lot about databases. What we needed was just someone who didn't know a lot about databases, didn't pretend to know a lot about databases, and just wanted to help us with candidates and customers. And he did. Yeah. And I have a list, right, of the investors that I have a relationship with, and Lockey has just performed excellent in the number of sub bullets of what we can attribute back to him.Just absolutely incredible. And when people talk about like no ego and just the best thing for the founder, I like, I don't think that anyone, like even my lawyer is like, yeah, Lockey is like the most friendly person you will find.swyx: Okay. This is my most glow recommendation I've ever heard.Alessio: He deserves it.He's very special.swyx: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Amazing.Alessio: Since you mentioned candidates, maybe we can talk about team building, you know, like, especially in sf, it feels like it's just easier to start a company than to join a company. Uh, I'm curious your experience, especially not being n SF full-time and doing something that is maybe, you know, a very low level of detail and technical detail.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: Yeah. So joining versus starting, I never thought that I would be a founder. I would start with it, like Turbo Puffer started as a blog post, and then it became a project and then sort of almost accidentally became a company. And now it feels like it's, it's like becoming a bigger company. That was never the intention.The intentions were very pure. It's just like, why hasn't anyone done this? And it's like, I wanna be the, like, I wanna be the first person to do it. I think some founders have this, like, I could never work for anyone else. I, I really don't feel that way. Like, it's just like, I wanna see this happen. And I wanna see it happen with some people that I really enjoy working with and I wanna have fun doing it and this, this, this has all felt very natural on that, on that sense.So it was never a like join versus versus versus found. It was just dis found me at the right moment.Alessio: Well I think there's an argument for, you should have joined Cursor, right? So I'm curious like how you evaluate it. Okay, I should actually go raise money and make this a company versus like, this is like a company that is like growing like crazy.It's like an interesting technical problem. I should just build it within Cursor and then they don't have to encrypt all this stuff. They don't have to obfuscate things. Like was that on your mind at all orSimon Hørup Eskildsen: before taking the, the small check from Lockie, I did have like a hard like look at myself in the mirror of like, okay, do I really want to do this?And because if I take the money, I really have to do it right. And so the way I almost think about it's like you kind of need to ha like you kind of need to be like fucked up enough to want to go all the way. And that was the conversation where I was like, okay, this is gonna be part of my life's journey to build this company and do it in the best way that I possibly can't.Because if I ask people to join me, ask people to get on the cap table, then I have an ultimate responsibility to give it everything. And I don't, I think some people, it doesn't occur to me that everyone takes it that seriously. And maybe I take it too seriously, I don't know. But that was like a very intentional moment.And so then it was very clear like, okay, I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna give it everything.Alessio: A lot of people don't take it this seriously. But,swyx: uh, let's talk about, you have this concept of the P 99 engineer. Uh, people are 10 x saying, everyone's saying, you know, uh, maybe engineers are out of a job. I don't know.But you definitely see a P 99 engineer, and I just want you to talk about it.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: Yeah, so the P 99 engineer was just a term that we started using internally to talk about candidates and talk about how we wanted to build the company. And you know, like everyone else is, like we want a talent dense company.And I think that's almost become trite at this point. What I credit the cursor founders a lot with is that they just arrived there from first principles of like, we just need a talent dense, um, talent dense team. And I think I've seen some teams that weren't talent dense and like seemed a counterfactual run, which if you've run in been in a large company, you will just see that like it's just logically will happen at a large company.Um, and so that was super important to me and Justine and it's very difficult to maintain. And so we just needed, we needed wording for it. And so I have a document called Traits of the P 99 Engineer, and it's a bullet point list. And I look at that list after every single interview that I do, and in every single recap that we do and every recap we end with.End with, um, some version of I'm gonna reject this candidate completely regardless of what the discourse was, because I wanna see people fight for this person because the default should not be, we're gonna hire this person. The default should be, we're definitely not hiring this person. And you know, if everyone was like, ah, maybe throw a punch, then this is not the right.swyx: Do, do you operate, like if there's one cha there must have at least one champion who's like, yes, I will put my career on, on, on the line for this. You know,Simon Hørup Eskildsen: I think career on the line,swyx: maybe a chair, butSimon Hørup Eskildsen: yeah. You know, like, um, I would say so someone needs to like, have both fists up and be like, I'd fight.Right? Yeah. Yeah. And if one person said, then, okay, let's do it. Right?swyx: Yeah.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: Um. It doesn't have to be absolutely everyone. Right? And like the interviews are always the sign that you're checking for different attributes. And if someone is like knocking it outta the park in every single attribute, that's, that's fairly rare.Um, but that's really important. And so the traits of the P 99 engineer, there's lots of them. There's also the traits of the p like triple nine engineer and the quadruple nine engineer. This is like, it's a long list.swyx: Okay.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: Um, I'll give you some samples, right. Of what we, what we look for. I think that the P 99 engineer has some history of having bent, like their trajectory or something to their will.Right? Some moment where it was just, they just, you know, made the computer do what it needed to do. There's something like that, and it will, it will occur to have them at some point in their career. And, uh. Hopefully multiple times. Right.swyx: Gimme an example of one of your engineers that like,Simon Hørup Eskildsen: I'll give an eng.Uh, so we, we, we launched this thing called A and NV three. Um, we could, we're also, we're working on V four and V five right now, but a and NV three can search a hundred billion vectors with a P 50 of around 40 milliseconds and a p 99 of 200 milliseconds. Um, maybe other people have done this, I'm sure Google and others have done this, but, uh, we haven't seen anyone, um, at least not in like a public consumable SaaS that can do this.And that was an engineer, the chief architect of Turbo Puffer, Nathan, um, who more or less just bent this, the software was not capable of this and he just made it capable for a very particular workload in like a, you know, six to eight week period with the help of a lot of the team. Right. It's been, been, there's numerous of examples of that, like at, at turbo puff, but that's like really bending the software and X 86 to your will.It was incredible to watch. Um. You wanna see some moments like that?swyx: Isn't that triple nine?Simon Hørup Eskildsen: Um, I think Nathan, what's calledAlessio: group nine, that was only nine. I feel like this is too high forSimon Hørup Eskildsen: Nathan. Nathan is, uh, Nathan is like, yeah, there's a lot of nines. Okay. After that p So I think that's one trait. I think another trait is that, uh, the P 99 spends a lot of time looking at maps.Generally it's their preferred ux. They just love looking at maps. You ever seen someone who just like, sits on their phone and just like, scrolls around on a map? Or did you not look at maps A lot? You guys don't look atswyx: maps? I guess I'm not feeling there. I don't know, butSimon Hørup Eskildsen: you just dis What about trains?Do you like trains?swyx: Uh, I mean they, not enough. Okay. This is just like weapon nice. Autism is what I call it. Like, like,Simon Hørup Eskildsen: um, I love looking at maps, like, it's like my preferred UX and just like I, you know, I likeswyx: lotsAlessio: of, of like random places, soswyx: like,youswyx: know.Alessio: Yes. Okay. There you go. So instead of like random places, like how do you explore the maps?Simon Hørup Eskildsen: No, it's, it's just a joke.swyx: It's autism laugh. It's like you are just obsessed by something and you like studying a thing.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: The origin of this was that at some point I read an interview with some IOI gold medalistswyx: Uhhuh,Simon Hørup Eskildsen: and it's like, what do you do in your spare time? I was just like, I like looking at maps.I was like, I feel so seen. Like, I just like love, like swirling out. I was like, oh, Canada is so big. Where's Baffin Island? I don't know. I love it. Yeah. Um, anyway, so the traits of P 99, P 99 is obsessive, right? Like, there's just like, you'll, you'll find traits of that we do an interview at, at, at, at turbo puffer or like multiple interviews that just try to screen for some of these things.Um, so. There's lots of others, but these are the kinds of traits that we look for.swyx: I'll tell you, uh, some people listen for like some of my dere stuff. Uh, I do think about derel as maps. Um, you draw a map for people, uh, maps show you the, uh, what is commonly agreed to be the geographical features of what a boundary is.And it shows also shows you what is not doing. And I, I think a lot of like developer tools, companies try to tell you they can do everything, but like, let's, let's be real. Like you, your, your three landmarks are here, everyone comes here, then here, then here, and you draw a map and, and then you draw a journey through the map.And like that. To me, that's what developer relations looks like. So I do think about things that way.Simon Hørup Eskildsen: I think the P 99 thinks in offs, right? The P 99 is very clear about, you know, hey, turbo puffer, you can't run a high transaction workload on turbo puffer, right? It's like the right latency is a hundred milliseconds.That's a clear trade off. I think the P 99 is very good at articulating the trade offs in every decision. Um. Which is exactly what the map is in your case, right?swyx: Uh, yeah, yeah. My, my, my world. My world.Alessio: How, how do you reconcile some of these things when you're saying you bend the will the computer versus like the trade

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One of the most memorable parts of travel is the people that we meet - not just the friends we make or the people we stay with but also the incidental encounters along the way. Speaking with people on our travels is one of the ways we learn the most about the places we're visiting and it's amazing how long these people stay in our minds, even when we don't know their names. In this episode I share some of my own small but memorable encounters, as well as including stories from four guests. Eryn Gordon starts us off with a tale from Thailand, where the people are stereotypically friendly and she proves it to be true. Amy Willis then shares a place she goes where it's easy to make a connection with the local people wherever you are. Nomad Bianca Rappaport explains how she's managed to both make and maintain connections during her years of housesitting in many places around the world, and finally Heidi Brown highlights one of the big benefits of repeated visits to a beloved place. Links: Eryn Gordon’s website Earth to Editorial - https://earthtoeditorial.com/ Eryn's TEDx Talk on “What it means to be a good traveler” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WQYSdm-5ps Amy Willis from Ker & Downey https://kerdowney.com/ Amy's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/amynwillis/ Bianca Rappaport Website: https://wanderwell.club/ Bianca Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wanderwellclub - Heidi Brown - https://www.heidikristinbrown.com/ Heidi’s memoir The Map I Draw: A Memoir of Travel as a Passport to Self - https://amzn.to/44Mky6T Join our Facebook group for Thoughtful Travellers - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtfultravellers Join our LinkedIn group for Thoughtful Travellers - https://notaballerina.com/linkedin Sign up for the Thoughtful Travellers newsletter at Substack - https://thoughtfultravel.substack.com Show notes: https://notaballerina.com/383 *Full disclosure: Amazon Services LLC Associates Program NotABallerina.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.Support the show: https://thoughtfultravel.substack.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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