Dr. Codd Was Right: End of the Hype?

Leading an Insurrection is now an Official Act

The world is not linear.
-- Dr. McElhone/1974

Yes they can control the weather. it's ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can't be done.
-- Marjorie Taylor Greene/2024 [the MAGAnaut braintrust]

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

Mr. Minister, I am the leader of the most powerful military in the history of the world. I don't make threats.
-- Lloyd Austin/2022 [IOW, fuck you Vlad]

See you next week in a brand new show^{©Heckle and Jeckle}

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.

16 October 2024

End of the Hype?

Well... it did have to happen, and may be it has. ASML has tanked bigly, stock market wise. As I type, it's down $180 from Monday's close and bouncing up a little and down a bit more. Seems that demand for their bottleneck machines is predicted, by them, to wane going forward. The AI chipmakers are collateral damage. May be the AI fever has broken? One hopes so.

Dr. Codd Was Right

Leading an Insurrection is now an Official Act

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End of the Hype?

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