Dr. Codd Was Right: Fool's Goal

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

Investigative reporters are an idiosyncratic breed of journalist. Typically fearless, they are often a source of angina to their editors. Mr. Walsh was no exception.
-- Michael S. Rosenwald/2024 [no surprise - I spent a bit of time on Jack Anderson's staff]

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.

02 August 2018

Fool's Goal

Are you old enough to remember pets.com? Cute Lamb Chop-ish sock puppet spokescritter. Lots o fun to watch the adverts. Didn't last all that long.

It began operations in February 1999 and liquidated in November 2000.
[the wiki]

Before I looked it up just now, I hadn't realized just how short its life was. Poor doggy. Got hit by bus.

Today's missive is about a similar ploy: dinner over the internet. There's in the neighborhood of half a dozen such outfits. Today's report is for (7:09)Blue Apron:

Reports Q2 (Jun) loss of $0.17 per share, in-line with the Capital IQ Consensus of ($0.17); revenues fell 24.6% year/year to $179.6 mln vs the $188.51 mln Capital IQ Consensus.

Customers decreased 24% year-over-year and decreased 9% quarter-over-quarter as the Company progresses through the aforementioned transition period. Average Revenue per Customer was $250 in the second quarter of 2018 compared to $251 in the second quarter of 2017, and $250 in the first quarter of 2018.

Going the way of the sockpuppet doggy? Only time will tell.

Dr. Codd Was Right

Vaccinated ≠ Not Infectious

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