Dr. Codd Was Right: Data Science

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.

14 June 2019

Data Science - part the second

So, today the other shoe dropped. USDA Perdue is shipping the data folks to the arid desert of Kansas City. "Arid", you ask? Here's what Perdue had to say to those who complain that this is just a slow motion purge:

He added that this decision was not made "with disruption in mind," and that federal employees have many other opportunities within the government should they choose to stay.
[my bold]

Well, let's see. What we really want are the number of Federal locations by SMA by GS occupation series. What I can find, so far, is this list by state of Federal employment. It's a proxy, at best. What we really want to know is: what happens to these data folks when Perdue starts culling out the undesirables?

So, in Missouri there are: 35,549. USDA is 3,573 For DC the numbers are 141,514 total and USDA 6,171. Somewhere, deep inside OPM (where I once toiled) there are the numbers of GS occupations that fit the USDA folks being shunted into the desert. The chance that there are the numbers of open data science slots in the Kansas City MSA as DC is ludicrous. For the USDA folks, they're now in a company town. And you all know what happens then? Of course you do. Those that don't toe the line with regard to climate change or any other externality generating private sector activity will be RIFed. With, of course, no where to go. Hell of a way to alter reality.

Dr. Codd Was Right

Vaccinated ≠ Not Infectious

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Data Science - part the second

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