IFF AI, as currently implemented, can intuit Special Relativity from just a clock tower and a moving tram will I take AI seriously.
Infinite granularity yields infinite complexity.
OK Shitler Show us the wire transfers from China for tariffs
The world is not linear.
-- Dr. McElhone/1974
Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-- Lord Acton/1887
Well, John, your Gang of Six named me dictator. Now y'all are my bitch. I couldn't be happier.
-- Mad Dictator Don/2025
There's not a single example of things working out for the appeaser.
-- Nicolle Wallace/2024
This is the epitome of an absolute needless death [the second so far; that's been reported]. These kids should get vaccinated — that's how you prevent people from dying of measles.
-- Dr. Peter Marks/2025 [fired FDA vaccine maven]
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.
... 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
It's like appointing someone who believes the world is flat to be in charge of NASA.
-- Brian Riley/2025 [re: Navarro; and they'll do that too]
In a time of SSD, multi-core/processor, two terabyte memory and Optane App Direct Mode (RIP) 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.
I know a little something about SQL, DB2 (preferably LUW, z/OS if the money's right), Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, and database design in general. Mentoring/teaching/consulting on a short term basis, too. And a bit of stat analysis if it's R. gnuoytr at rcn dot com.
If there ever were cast iron proof that events drive data, not the other way round: GameStop. I wonder how many quants have committed suicide, metaphorical or real, in the last week?
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