Category: Recommended Resources

  • 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,…

  • Simulation: Monte-Carlo & Input Distributions (1/n)

    Intro First, let me say, I know, it’s been a while. And that’s alright. I have plenty of good excuses 🙂 Now that doesn’t mean I should completely forget about this my little Blog. OK, so, for today: I’ve been studying Operations Research for about 3 months now, and we’re getting (in the Master course)…

  • From local Spark to Azure Synapse

    Intro In the last entry we laid out an Apache Spark foundation locally to our laptop, using some Docker containers. This time around, let’s look at what a Cloud-based alternative can look like. We’re going to have a look at Azure Synapse. Many things in one service That’s what is advertised. And being cloud based,…