I'm lucky to have been surrounded by researchers who have been teaching and thinking about these ideas over the last ~6 months, so this essay has been marinating for a long time... your article just provided the necessary activation energy for me to write this all out. Thank you!

Here are the researchers, in no particular order:

Max Willsey (Berkeley): https://www.mwillsey.com/ and his PL class (https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs294-260/sp24/)

Joe Hellerstein (Berkeley): https://dsf.berkeley.edu/jmh/

Dan Suciu (UW): https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~suciu/ and his DB theory class (https://berkeley-cs294-248.github.io/)

Remy Wang (UCLA): https://remy.wang/

Hung Ngo (relationalAI): https://hung-q-ngo.github.io/

The Hydro Project at Berkeley: https://hydro.run/