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Ode to Dabas
Dabas
o dabas.
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Best be noted that the one proof of living in a simulation that stands quite firmly in my opinion is that galloping horses have 4 legs by visual, but 3 if you carefully check the audio stream.
Update: hard proof
Sunday, 19 April 2020
Drawn
Just thinking of how my codebase starts to randomly grow waaay over me, I'm feeling completely drawn into this (just by the look absolutely lovable) book ... fantastic Sunday :D
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Ode to Dabas
Dabas
o dabas.
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Best be noted that the one proof of living in a simulation that stands quite firmly in my opinion is that galloping horses have 4 legs by visual, but 3 if you carefully check the audio stream.
Update: hard proof
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Ode to Dabas
Dabas
o dabas.
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Best be noted that the one proof of living in a simulation that stands quite firmly in my opinion is that galloping horses have 4 legs by visual, but 3 if you carefully check the audio stream.
Update: hard proof
Sunday, 12 April 2020
Spy movie survival tip of the day
"You are joking."
"It's the only way, Will."
(Spooks - The Greater Good)
"It's the only way, Will."
(Spooks - The Greater Good)
Friday, 10 April 2020
"All APIs are the synchronous functions." *
Behold. Title says all. Superset Friday!
* [sic!]
Update (Jesus Christ!)/good deed of the day: I shall confirm humanity right away lol:
Powerset Saturday! *
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* Though Wikipedia states that some folks claim this to be already all done & dusted! Well, what undone ticket skeletons may linger in the wardrobe kanban boards then? God knows how much earlier it could've been done if it was communicated to be outstanding and that it's just a matter of an checkbox tick... 😠
"God our Father has marked you with his sign; Christ the Lord has confirmed you and has placed his pledge, the Spirit, in your heart."
(Source)
By the way I'd like to kindly ask all team members: please please please avoid wrongfully marking issues as "complete" in the tracker. Many thanks in advance!
* [sic!]
Update (Jesus Christ!)/good deed of the day: I shall confirm humanity right away lol:
Powerset Saturday! *
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* Though Wikipedia states that some folks claim this to be already all done & dusted! Well, what undone ticket skeletons may linger in the wardrobe kanban boards then? God knows how much earlier it could've been done if it was communicated to be outstanding and that it's just a matter of an checkbox tick... 😠
"God our Father has marked you with his sign; Christ the Lord has confirmed you and has placed his pledge, the Spirit, in your heart."
(Source)
By the way I'd like to kindly ask all team members: please please please avoid wrongfully marking issues as "complete" in the tracker. Many thanks in advance!
Monday, 6 April 2020
os.system vs. line continuation on Windows :\
(note to self)
So at least in the Windows style (and of course actually on Windows), Python's os.system does not much enjoy the there accepted ^ symbols that otherwise are meant to mark lines of a batch file that would continue in the next, even if these are used for the purpose correctly -- and they otherwise work fine even if pasted into a command line shell.
Could be that it was the cr+lf's that halted the parsing at the end of the first line? Maybe someone will find out and publish.
For me, just one more lesson learnt the hard way ... :)
So at least in the Windows style (and of course actually on Windows), Python's os.system does not much enjoy the there accepted ^ symbols that otherwise are meant to mark lines of a batch file that would continue in the next, even if these are used for the purpose correctly -- and they otherwise work fine even if pasted into a command line shell.
Could be that it was the cr+lf's that halted the parsing at the end of the first line? Maybe someone will find out and publish.
For me, just one more lesson learnt the hard way ... :)
Monday, 2 March 2020
Structured and unstructured ... wait, what?
To date I find it difficult to align myself with the distinction between structured and unstructured data.
It feels like one of those cases when someone needed to categorize things for a practical task given their preferences, and without realizing their subjectivity they tried to cast those subjective boundaries into stone.
Now the industry, wouldn't be the first time, feels comfortable with the Simon sayid game, and tries to explain the stuff that lacked pragmatic reasoning, i.e. what structured and unstructured data are via examples instead of ways that would lead to measures, formulae, which could ultimately become algorithmically determinable.
One of the explanations is around the lines 'data that can be described by relational databases'.
Have I news to you - everything can be at least modelled via relational databases.
Now with models the case is that they're (almost) never expected to be 100%.
Well, I think what the authors there would try to mean then is that they can't give a 100% meaningful representation of the data, that would faithfully and storage-efficiently describe the relationships, in an easy-to-search way.
But then we could ask, okay, how do you measure how far we're from that 100% faithfulness, and will that measure be good enough to make comparisons?
But in other words, we started to come back to how well the data can be processed.
And, some authors seem to start right there. Well-well, that's exactly what's always been a varying so far as we can judge from the known part of human history. Indeed "what is easy to process", that does change rapidly due to various relatively revolutionary innovations (from the Gutenberg's stuff through GPU to soon enough quantum computing networks).
So categorizations based on this criteria will change, drastically.
Maybe we just don't admit that unstructured data is just data without its structure unveiled, that we're not that ready process but generally it's almost the same thing?
Thereby "unstructuredness" is really a momentary property of the relationship between the observer and the data?
Not sure if a good example, but how would you classify a photo of an Excel spreadsheet? Then a screenshot? How is it worse or better than the data in the spreadsheet itself? And then what if someone pastes the Bible onto that very sheet? But then what if the sheet was like really big, and the Bible is just a tiny unnoticeable outlier within it :D
It feels like one of those cases when someone needed to categorize things for a practical task given their preferences, and without realizing their subjectivity they tried to cast those subjective boundaries into stone.
Now the industry, wouldn't be the first time, feels comfortable with the Simon sayid game, and tries to explain the stuff that lacked pragmatic reasoning, i.e. what structured and unstructured data are via examples instead of ways that would lead to measures, formulae, which could ultimately become algorithmically determinable.
One of the explanations is around the lines 'data that can be described by relational databases'.
Have I news to you - everything can be at least modelled via relational databases.
Now with models the case is that they're (almost) never expected to be 100%.
Well, I think what the authors there would try to mean then is that they can't give a 100% meaningful representation of the data, that would faithfully and storage-efficiently describe the relationships, in an easy-to-search way.
But then we could ask, okay, how do you measure how far we're from that 100% faithfulness, and will that measure be good enough to make comparisons?
But in other words, we started to come back to how well the data can be processed.
And, some authors seem to start right there. Well-well, that's exactly what's always been a varying so far as we can judge from the known part of human history. Indeed "what is easy to process", that does change rapidly due to various relatively revolutionary innovations (from the Gutenberg's stuff through GPU to soon enough quantum computing networks).
So categorizations based on this criteria will change, drastically.
Maybe we just don't admit that unstructured data is just data without its structure unveiled, that we're not that ready process but generally it's almost the same thing?
Thereby "unstructuredness" is really a momentary property of the relationship between the observer and the data?
Not sure if a good example, but how would you classify a photo of an Excel spreadsheet? Then a screenshot? How is it worse or better than the data in the spreadsheet itself? And then what if someone pastes the Bible onto that very sheet? But then what if the sheet was like really big, and the Bible is just a tiny unnoticeable outlier within it :D
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