Dr. Codd Was Right: Don't Look Behind the Curtain

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.

03 August 2020

Don't Look Behind the Curtain

Long time dear reader might recall my jaundiced view of quant market trading. "Data is driven by events, not the other way round." Yet we see many stat folks going whole hog into Wall Street, dragging all manner of ever more abstruse data procs. Turns out, I'm not fully alone. (I had to switch to Chrome from Firefox to open the link; you may also.)

"It's easy to train a system to recognize cats in YouTube videos because there are millions of them," Chan says. In contrast, only a few such large swings in the market have occurred before. "You can count [these huge drops] on one hand. So it's not possible to use machine learning to learn from those signals."

In other words, events drive the data, and if there aren't enough events to drive enough data, you'll never see enough of them to drive a model. You're much better off reading 'The New York Times' and 'The Guardian' and other large dailies. That's where the Covid-19 event was reported early, and if you had a mind to, you could have put a few Bongo Bucks into a handful of micro-cap 'vaccine' developers around March 1 and cashed out in the last week or so with life altering amounts of Bongo Bucks. No AI needed.

Dr. Codd Was Right

Vaccinated ≠ Not Infectious

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Don't Look Behind the Curtain

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