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How SQL is still proving useful: Snowflake
Intro A short and somewhat different entry. SQL keeps on giving So these past few days/weeks, I have had the chance to work with a “Data Lake” platform. As it turns out, in “Snowflake”, the platform, having some understanding of SQL helps… a LOT. The little I understand about it by now, it seems like…
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Learning Cybernetics: Working on Ashby’s Transformation Matrices
Intro I really do not have that much spare time, but I also really wanted to learn more about “Cybernetics”. So I bought (yet another) book, a classic in this case (I think it was first edited in 1956): “An Introduction to Cybernetics”, by W. Ross Ashby (“Ashby” from now on for short). So far,…
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About efficiency
Intro A few weeks back I needed to test working with the “parquet” file type. It turned out I couldn’t (as much as I tried) get my Docker container’s RStudio to take the “arrow” package and install it (it would always fail, but that’s beyond the point for this particular post). A side note about…