1. Database Truth of the Week
"And [AI] weaknesses there are. Watson requires many months of laborious training, as experts must feed vast quantities of well-organized data into the platform for it to be able to draw any useful conclusions. And then it can only draw conclusions based upon the body of data, or ‘corpus’ (plural: ‘corpora’) that it has been trained on. The ‘well-organized’ requirement is especially challenging for Watson, as unprepared data sets are typically insufficient. As a result, Watson customers must hire teams of expert consultants to prepare the data sets, a time-consuming and extraordinarily expensive process." --Is IBM's Watson a Joke?
2. What's Wrong With This Database Picture?
"Can I ask whether people make use of the functionality provided by the database to ensure adequate data quality. Secondly do people apply this retrospectively as seems quite reasonable to me when a data problem is identified and the source data cleaned up--to do so could prevent future errors. There appears to be a tension between this sort of implementation and at least a perception of flexibility as database changes would be required should additional allowable values be required." --LinkedIn.com
3. To Laugh or Cry?
"Although NewSQL systems vary greatly in their internal architectures, the two distinguishing features common amongst them is that they all support the relational data model and use SQL as their primary interface." --Wikipedia
4. Publications
- NEW!!! Paper #2 in the new UNDERSTANDING OF THE REAL RDM series, Logical Symmetric Access, Data Sub-language, Kinds of Relations, Database Redundancy and Consistency, is available for ordering here.
- Paper #1 in the new UNDERSTANDING OF THE REAL RDM series, Interpretation and Representation of Database Relations is available for ordering here.
- My book, THE DBDEBUNK GUIDE TO MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT DATA FUNDAMENTALS is available to order here.
Reviews
5. Oldies but Goodies
If You Liked SQL,You'll Love XQUERY
6. Of Interest
- Charles W. Bachman Dies at 92
- Don't believe the hype about Hadoop usage
- The Limits of the CAP Theorem
- Basta, Big Data It’s Time to Say Arrivederci
- Negative Effects of Agile and H-1B
And Now for Something Completely Different
This week @The PostWest:
- How Do I Know America (and the entire Western Civilization) Is Finished!
- Soft Target: The Only Acceptable Racism Left
- The "Palestinians": Nice People, Let's Give Them a[n ISIS] State!
Technology Corporations: The Mechanism of Tyranny and the Destruction of Free Civilized Society
My Take: The Real Mark Zuckerberg and the Dangerous Sillicon Valley Illusions
- Mark Zuckerberg Hits the Road to Meet Regular Folks -- With a Few Conditions
- Mark Zuckerberg’s SF security detail under siege
Technology Dystopia
- Apple, Google and Microsoft Extracting, Not Creating Wealth
- Google, Apple, Amazon hit record lobbying highs
- Regulators Can Control Google Power, But Won't
- Don’t Build a Database of Ruin
- How Digital Platforms Increase Inequality
- Artificial intelligence has race, gender biases
- Facebook's Terms of Service Qualify As Extortion?
- God Help Us! Facebook, Crowdstrike want to save US elections
- Nest Founder (only after he made his millions!) “I Wake Up In Cold Sweats Thinking, What Did We Bring To The World”
- Twitter Is Using Account Verification To Stifle Leaks And Promote War Propaganda
- How “fake news” could get even worse
- Google has been paying academic researchers
- Facebook is re-sculpting our memory
- How Twitter Fuels Anxiety
- Amazon may give developers your private Alexa transcripts
- All the News Google's Algorithms Are Fit to Generate
- Many firms are AI washing claims of intelligent products
- FTC probing allegations of Amazon's deceptive discounting
- Surprise, Echo Owners, You're Now Part of Amazon's Random Social Network
- On the Way to Monopoly
- Elon Musk: Just Another Bailed Out Innovator
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