by wp_sd | Nov 28, 2019 | Mathematics, Random
One of my favorite classics … Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds we view the starting point from ten times...
by wp_sd | Mar 31, 2019 | Creative, Design, Mathematics, Philosophy
When Bran Ferren was just 9, his parents took him to see the Pantheon in Rome — and it changed everything. In that moment, he began to understand how the tools of science and engineering become more powerful when combined with art, with design and beauty. Ever since,...
by wp_sd | Mar 13, 2019 | Creative, Mathematics
Will these pictures give you some idea of what their secret is ? Maybe there is no secret ! The Ulam spiral is a way of visualizing the distribution of prime numbers (black dots in the image and blue in the movie below). This pattern is one the great unsolved...
by wp_sd | Jan 20, 2019 | Data Management, Database, Design, Mathematics, MySQL, Programming
Great chapter from the unmissable book by Peter Brawley and Arthur Fuller … http://www.artfulsoftware.com/ … Thank you boys! Most non-trivial data is hierarchical. Customers have orders, which have line items, which refer to products, which have prices....
by wp_sd | Jan 16, 2019 | Data Management, Database, Design, ETL, Mathematics
The problem of data transformation is solved in numerous ways with different levels of smartness and in different flavors. ETL (extract – transform – load) processes is a buzz word strongly related to this topic. Basically the requirement is to get a...
by wp_sd | Dec 13, 2018 | Creative, Mathematics, Philosophy
Kevin B. Jones Science is a learning process that involves experimentation, failure and revision — and the science of medicine is no exception. Cancer researcher Kevin B. Jones faces the deep unknowns about surgery and medical care with a simple answer: honesty. In a...
