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Some of what they are doing is simply what was lost due to the ubiquitous nature of the relational model. The hierarchical model is applicable to many problems and actually in part why moving off mainframes is challenging because IMS is so
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OK maybe we are using different meanings of the word "operationalize" If I were say in middle management and you asked me to "operationalize" the impact of mission statements, I would try to associate the existence of a
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Tuckman as a 'real' framework is a belief so that is fair. He clearly communicated in 1977 that his ideas were never formally validated and that he cautioned about their use in other contexts. I think that the concepts can be usef
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An example of a typical nieve definition of a mission statement is: Concise, clear, and memorable statement that outlines a company's core purpose, values, and target audience. > "made operational/actionable at a strategic
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The 4.5 has better 'vibes' but isn't 'better', as a concrete example: > Mission is the operationalized version of vision; it translates aspiration into clear, achievable action. The "Mission is the operation
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> “let’s construct source that can be used interchangeably with the original”. You lose a lot more than whitespace, you lose semantics, metadata, and lots of other information that makes it so Obviously byte coded languages are a bit ea
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π is a transcendental number meaning that it is not algebraic It is NOT an algorithmically random sequence. Chatlin's halting probability is normal, transcendental , and non-computable. https://arxiv.org/pdf/0
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Choose any arbitrarily small segment of the real line, all those numbers will be uncomputable almost everywhere While there are many (often equivalent) definitions of what a computable number are. And easy to grasp informal explanation
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There is an unfortunate overloaded of the terms relational and relationships in relational databases. Relationships is association between relations/tables, parent-child, node/edge etc, depending on model, extensions etc.. The
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The TRS-80, Apple ][, and PET all came out in 1977, VisiCalc was released in 1979. Usenet, Bitnet, IRC, BBSs all predated the commercial internet, which are all forms of Online social networks.
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> Distributed SQL Engines This is what I see holding some applications back. The relational model is flexible and sufficient for many needs but the ACID model is responsible for much of the complexity in some more recent solutions. While
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While way too complex to accurately flesh out here, Linux took off mainly because the GNU userland had been in progress for almost a decade before and was ready, while the legal issues and rift on the 386BSD caused it to miss the window of
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The SGI Indy was their low end line with a price starting around the $5K range which was much cheaper than the Indigo2 line. That was about the same price range as a Dell Dimension Pro150 at the time. They went on an acquisition binge in t
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Black Bears 'aggression' is almost exclusively what is called bluster. It is a stress/fear response. But they aren't social hunters so the ability to lose that fear response isn't something that was selected for. Si
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Ever visit any national park or even city park where people are feeding ducks, squirrels, birds etc??? What 'value' outside of entertainment does that provide to the humans?
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For those who struggle with RPN (postfix), it is really just a linearized tree. Starting with the infix a+b c The tree form of that is: + / \ a * / \ b c If you walk around that tree, startin
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That isn't a bug, that is correct behavior under their contract model (which I will admit isn't my favorite). It is common for message based systems for the target system to own the contract, and they have both the / and &#
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> OpenStack is a cluster of poorly-interoperating, poorly-documented products -- The customer experience is fucking terrible. I assume you were unfortunately a victim of Mirantis/Fuel/Puppet/Mcollective... or one of the &#
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The is the point of the AIME, it is a 3 hour closed book examination in which each answer is an integer number from 0 to 999 and should only depend on pre-calc...for a human with no calculator, notes, or internet access. The concepts are h
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Quite the corpus for Exercism tasks that were almost certainly trained on, which could lead this to doing what we know LLM/LRM's are good at...approximate retrieval. https://github.com/search?q=Exercism&type=re
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They both had been working on the Multics project for Bell Labs before they pulled out of the project and had written several languages already. While some ideas like hierarchical filesystems were new it was mainly a modernized version of C
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Depends on what you call "overhype". Wishful mnemonics in the field was called out by Drew McDermott in the mid 1970's and it is still a problem today. https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/irm
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> Your Kindle must have a valid, internet-connected WiFi network saved to it that it can connect to during steps 8 to 10 (inclusive) So only Kindle 3+ with keyboards work with this method, the early ones were whispernet only.
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Too bad it wasn't Tony Schwartz, the actual author of that book, that was elected.
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While interesting, the title is obviously a bit misleading. > Our results on a temporally held-out test set of questions resolving after December 25, 2024 show that for both of the models that we employed our method on, Phi-4 14B [15] an
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IIRC the patchwork of laws, standards and regulations across the world for low voltage wiring is what restricted voltage in the 36 V – 52 V range. Some locations treating it as low, some as an intermediate and others treated it as high vol
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Quantum superposition is indecomposable, measurement is an artifact of the Copenhagen interpretation. You can view wave function collapse as invalidating your priors and it still works without observation. The special case of quantum super
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Western reductionism/Laplacian determism was falsified several times by counterexamples like quantum superposition, Cantor diagonalization etc. The System Identification Problem has also been shown to be equivalent to the halting probl
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You are confusing the map for the territory. Under our best current theory (map) General relativity, total energy might not be conserved globally, the divergence of the stress-energy-momentum tensor is zero, meaning that energy is conserved
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We have more than a quarter of a century of the normalization of zero privacy, and this is obviously anti Chinese AI company propaganda because the reality is that RTB is so bad that the security concerns are simply not new so why should pe

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