Thoughts and Links: December 2013

Reality DB

"Reality sunk in and they had to move on from elegant theories to the bitterness of solving real-world problems. Whenever you hear about a new database, remember this: this shit is really, really, really hard. It typically takes many years for a database or storage engine to become production-ready in the real world.

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http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2013/12/28/immutability-mvcc-and-garbage-collection/

Yet Another DB

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/316816/RaptorDB-The-Key-Value-Store-V2

I love this thought process, I would say it's a good 25% of the 'new database!!!' use case/reason for existing … "I didn't like the way B-Trees work, so I created an entirely new database with my own special Index! It's Wicked Fast!"

How about you try adding your special sauce to .. Postgres, or some other well established product ...Then you will get all those features that you would otherwise spend the rest of your life implementing/trying to get right.. For FREE!

-JD

Might be time for a review of the parts of speech.

http://www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/hypergrammar/partsp.html

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphora_(linguistics)

Sally arrived, but nobody saw her, the pronoun her is anaphoric, referring back to Sally

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics

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Meronym (is a part of) Holonym.

Fingers (are a part of) Hand.

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Hyponym (is a type of) Hypernym.

A Duck (is a type of) Bird.

Hypernym can be used for -semantic compression-

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Metonym

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy

A Figure of Speech. Something called not by its own name, but by something associated in meaning:

Washington :: US Government.

Also:

https://bookofbadarguments.com

Equivocation exploits the ambiguity of language by changing the meaning of a word during the course of an argument and using the different meanings to support some conclusion.A word whose meaning is maintained throughout an argument is described as being used univocally.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia

Is a term used in philosophy to refer to individual instances of subjective, conscious experience:

Examples of qualia are the pain of a headache, the taste of wine, or the perceived redness of an evening sky

…And the article explodes in to a fertile field of philosophy…