Dr. Codd Was Right: Thought For The Day

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The world is not linear.
Smart people vote with their feet. [you betcha]
-- Donald Hughes McElhone, Ph.D.[statistics, Iowa State]/1975

Over the past several years, global reinsurance companies have had what the researchers call a "climate epiphany" and have roughly doubled the rates they charge home insurance providers.
-- Claire Brown, et al/2025 [no NCAR?, and NOAA? de Nile is just a river]

Better A.I. would remember what it learns, just as humans do, and squeeze more work from each watt. Tech companies spend billions of dollars running large language models that don't learn while they run.
-- Carl Benedikt Frey/2025 [sounds like AI/LLM backed by some RDBMS which stores the learning? sound familiar?]

There's not a single example of things working out for the appeaser.
-- Nicolle Wallace/2024 [like this? the next extortion is on the way]

He was awarded a Bronze Star and a Combat Infantryman Badge (CIB), having served in civil-affairs operations and as an adviser in Afghanistan. But let's be clear: Hegseth was not a front-line leader of combat troops under sustained fire. He did not command an infantry company in protracted combat or lead exhausted soldiers through night patrols and firefights.
-- Dick Dowdell/2025 [once again, with anger: drugstore truck driving man]

Effective with the 2026 mid-term elections, military proctors will be stationed at every shithole Blue city polling place, demanding to see a current, valid United States of Alabama passport. No passport, no vote. I am the dictator.
-- Donald J. Trump by Executive Order, this day 7 December 2025 [let's not wait that long]

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

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 first time a constituent of mine dies because of measles, I'm going to lose my mind, because we should never have a person in America die of measles in 2025 because they wouldn't take a damn vaccine.
-- Josh Kimbrell (Rep. State Senator, SC)/2025 [time to switch Party?]

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 (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.

19 December 2025

Thought For The Day - 19 December 2025

Near as I can find, not even Hitler usurped the name of a single public building. Lots of streets and plazas, but never a building. So, we can accurately state that Donald J. "peace for our time" Chamberlain is worser than Hitler. But you already knew that, right?

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