Non Sequitur - <satire> Meteorologists have noted that there is an unusually high number of hurricanes in the Caribbean this year. Experts are in disagreement as to what the fundamental cause is. However, one frequent observer has conjectured that, "this...
The word "symbol" - A few days ago, VC commented on my use of the word "symbol" saying that I was inventing new terminology. I'm trying to restrain the urge to rant, and just give a sober reply. There is a book on my shelves, thanks to Joe Celko, who mailed it...
Semiotics - If semiotics is all about writers like Humberto Eco, then it's a little far afield even for my tastes. Now, if Eco had written about say, how we name data, I might have read him a little more. Let's say that Humberto Eco wrote a paper on practical..
APL, J or K? - Anyone here have any experience with the APL, J or K programming languages? (Yes, I recognize the redundancy in "APL programming language.") What about with Kdb? They look fairly interesting, if somewhat thrown together. It doesn't appear that...
Distributivity in Tropashko's Lattice Algebra - A month or so ago we were discvssing relational algebras, and we were looking at a lattice algebra defined in a paper by Vadim Tropashko. It had two operators, natvral join and inner vnion. One point that was made at the time ...
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