Dr. Codd Was Right: Thought For The Day

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]

There's a fine line between one person and 10 people with H5N1. By the time we've detected 10, it's probably too late.
-- Rick Bright/2024 [read the report; it'll curl your hair]

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 top internal candidate for the job is Ms. Pope, a 30-year veteran of Boeing who has held a number of senior finance jobs and ran the company's services business before becoming its chief operating officer in January.
-- Sydney Ember/2024 [read and find out that all the candidates are from the Evil Side, finance, the one that got them in trouble]

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.

29 December 2021

Thought For The Day - 29 December 2021

From the mouth of a moron:

Listen, we all hoped and prayed the vaccines would be 100 percent effective, 100 percent safe, but they're not. We now know that fully vaccinated individuals can catch Covid, they can transmit Covid. So what's the point?
-- Ron Johnson, (R) Wisconsin/ 27 December 2021

Well, lots of points, but the one that matters more than any other: Covid-ο will generate some other, possibly more virulent (remember, Constant Power^© isn't a guarantee of diminishing virulence, only balance of that and transmissiblity) variant if it has a large enough pool of morons to infect. That's just the math, which Ronny doesn't grok. Johnson is proposing to keep the pool of morons growing. If only Covid stayed in the Red States.

Dr. Codd Was Right

Vaccinated ≠ Not Infectious

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Thought For The Day - 29 December 2021

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