Dr. Codd Was Right: A Sane Mad Man

Vaccinated ≠ Not Infectious

$536,800,000 MARF^™(party like it's 1829)
-- New York Slammers, so far/2024 [GA and The Feds still to come]

Covid-19 has killed at least 1,123,836 people (as of 20 March 2023, final update)

Scientists aren't vocal enough about science. There are large groups of people who think scientists are all frauds and who don't believe in science, and they're being cultured by some of our far right-wing politicians, religious leaders and community leaders.
-- Drew Weissman/2022

To date, Microsoft is stating that organizations testing In-Memory OLTP have seen transaction speeds improve by up to 30 times compared to past performance, with the best performance gains achieved when the business logic resides in the database and not in the applications.
-- Jonathan Watts/2015 [my emphasis]

I have had to explain and re-explain and re-explain and re-explain, you know, how relational databases work, what is an eigenvector, what is dimensionality reduction.

-- Christopher Wylie/2018

... but Flash-based storage has such a different performance profile from rotating media, that I suspect that it will end up having a large impact on filesystem design. Right now, most filesystems tend to be designed with the latencies of rotating media in mind.

-- Linus Torvalds/2007

I believe quite strongly that, if you think about the issue at the appropriate level of abstraction, you're inexorably led to the position that databases must be relational.

-- Chris Date/2009

This week's thought

[The intelligence community] argued that [the restrictive amendment] would cripple the program because they typically use it before there is enough evidence to meet a standard of probable cause for a warrant, like early in investigations when they are trying to learn more about a phone number or an email account found to be in contact with a suspected foreign spy or terrorist.
-- Charlie Savage/2024 [IOW, let's catch the thief before the horse is out of the barn - the MARF^™(party like it's 1829) traitor's worst nightmare]

Therefore:

In a time of SSD, multi-core/processor, two terabyte memory and Optane App Direct Mode machines, there is no reason not to build from BCNF data. Time to do what Dr. Codd demonstrated. Technology has finally caught up with the maths.

26 June 2013

A Sane Mad Man

I've seen this treacly Apple ad of smiling folks with various iStuff, which ends with a proclamation that the widgets are designed in California. I suspected that most folks were too dumb to see through the propaganda, what with the widgets made by wage slaves in China, and a few rich folks in CA. Turns out I'm not really alone. There may be intelligent life in the universe. I mean, claiming California as home is so transparently false, yet sure to piss off the rednecks who've spent their last dollar on an iStuff. What were they thinking?

Apple's new ad, dubbed "Designed by Apple in California," scored a 528 on "Information," versus an hardware-industry average of 603. A recent ad for Samsung's new Galaxy S4 phone that showed features such as the ability to answer a call without touching the screen scored a 757 by that same measure.

Years ago I read David Ogilvy's book on advertising. From memory, the crux of much of the book was exploring his main thesis: the object of the adverts was your (the Mad Man's) wife, and you wouldn't think her stupid. Give her as much information as possible. I recall a advert reproduced on a full page of the book, almost all text; an essay in persuasion. Of course, this was long before the Google ad. But that quote belies Ogilvy's assertion from that long past.

Dr. Codd Was Right

Vaccinated ≠ Not Infectious

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