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Nearly every serious application of computer systems includes relational database management software, from local SQLite on phones to planet-scale Spanner in cloud data centers. These systems all trace their lineage back through IBM System R to the Information Management System built to send humans to the Moon — or at least track all the bills of material for the rockets that carried them. In place of behemoth proprietary software built for specific systems at great expense, there is now a legion of open source software. Language models are still closer in their lifecycle to the Peterlee Relational Test Vehicle than to Postgres, but they hold the same promise: to be a part of nearly every application of computer systems. When these applications need to store and retrieve structured data, they currently deduce following the relational algebra of Ted Codd; when they need to produce or process unstructured data, they will infer with neural probabilistic models. The weights for capable lan

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