1. Quote of the Week
"Normalization is and will always be a direct trade-off. You give up performance (time) for space. Indexing mitigates in the opposite direction of this trade-off." --YCombinator.com
2. To Laugh or Cry?
Comments on my "Denormalization for Performance: Don't Blame the Relational Model"
3. THE DBDEBUNK GUIDE TO MISCONCEPTIONS OF DATA FUNDAMENTALS
is available. Order here.4. My October post @All Analytics
The Costly Illusion of Denormalization for Performance
5. I have rewritten several posts:
- Normalization, Further Normalization, Ease of Use, Integrity and Performance
- Depends on the Dependencies: Normal Forms and the Conceptual-Logical Conflation
- Tables, Full Normalization and Business Rules
- "Denormalization for Performance": Don't Blame the Relational Model
- Don't Confuse Tables and Relations
6. Of Interest
- GPUs Seen Lifting SQL Analytic Constraints
- Reasons Not To Use Firebase
- Consistency is Consistently Undervalued
And now for something completely different: The PostWest (The future of the West is all behind it)
- Dark side of depending on algorithms (MUST READ!!!)
- Should we trust predictive policing software to cut crime
- AT&T secretly sells customer data to law enforcement
- Silicon Valley Is Coming for Your Lunch
- Continually uncomfortable at how ads read my private emails
- Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race
- Google introduces fact checking feature intended to help people see whether news is actually true
- Google pollutes new Chrome tabs with ‘article suggestions’
- Uber Accused of Cashing In On Bomb Explosion
- Amazon Says It Puts Customers First. But Its Pricing Algorithm Doesn’t
- Google's redefined privacy policy lets ads follow you everywhere
- Plug n' Play Predictive Analysis
- Americans 'petrified' of losing jobs to tech
Article of the week
Machine logic - Our lives are ruled by big tech's 'decisions by data
Video of the week
The Attention Economy - Controlling Our Choices
Book of the week
O'Neil, C.,WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION HOW BIG DATA INCREASES INEQUALITY AND THREATENS DEMOCRACY
Pinch-me of the week
SF company created a bike lock that makes thieves vomit
Note: I will not publish anonymous comments. If you want to say something, stand behind it. Otherwise don't bother, it'll be ignored.
"Dark side of depending on algorithms" demands that I either turn off my ad-blocker or pay them money. So much for freedom!
ReplyDeleteFirst, ads are an infinitesimal element in the algorithmic control imposed on us that at least you're aware of and have some defense from.
ReplyDeleteSecond, the important distinction between choice and free choice is seldom made. People -- particularly americans -- confuse choice with free choice. The latter is some ability to create your own options; the former involves options imposed on you without that ability.
If I put a gun to your head and ask you for your wallet, you do have a choice, but it is not free choice.
If I put a gun to your head and ask you for your wallet, you do have a choice, but it is not free choice
ReplyDeleteThat is the style of GOD in abrahamic faith.
That's what ALL gods are are about, period. It is something that was invented by humans before they developed knowledge and reason to the point that they could understand reality that proved one of the best instruments of control. That's why I am a militant atheist.
DeleteBe that as it may, anybody who singles out Judaism when for criticism in face of all the infinitely much worse records of Christianity and Islam -- to this day -- and using that in contexts that have nothing to do with religion is an anti-Semite.
So spare me the crap.
I agree. Judaism is relatively better than other two destructive Abrahamic faiths(Christianity and Islam). one of the oldest but yet relevant and peaceful faith on earth is Hinduism which accommodates anything and everything.
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